Figure 2. Hypothesized reconstruction of the small Lark Quarry trackmaker.
CMI article images and captions.
Quoted by the article:"… there was something unusual about this period of earth history because of the number of tracks made by animals swimming in shallow water "
These people are ignorant.
I’ve left similar tracks across countless water bodies but not once was I fleeing a flood.
There have been many floods and many dinosaurs in Earth’s past. That is all I can say for sure.
Of course! Because everyone knows the Earth is undeniably only 6,000 years old.....
Boy, it sure didn’t take long for the hostile truth hate to rear it’s ugly head in here.
St. Augustine (b. 354 AD) took the view that the Biblical text should be interpreted metaphorically, if a literal interpretation contradicts science and our God-given reason. While each passage of Scripture has a literal sense, this “literal sense” does not always mean that the Scriptures are mere history; at times they are rather an extended metaphor.
Augustine recognized that the interpretation of the creation story is difficult, and remarked that we should be willing to change our mind about it as new information comes up.
Wouldn't water flowing over a sand surface have scrubbed the tracks from the surface of the sand before it had a chance to solidify to sandstone?
Quoted by the article:”… there was something unusual about this period of earth history because of the number of tracks made by animals swimming in shallow water “
No, there is nothing unusual about the fauna producing such tracks and certainly has nothing to do with a flood, Noah or otherwise.
It so happens the configuration of the continents created a shallow sea which created extensive lengths of drowned coastlines and swamps for long periods of time in continental areas which subsequently escaped destruction by plate tectonics as the continental crust dived into oceanic trenches. It is to be expected that a large number of such fossils are to be seen in the sandstones of these regions.
This is very helpful in explaining why I’ve never seen a dinosaur drink a glass of water.
After being nearly exterminated by water during the Great Flood, they are now hydrophobic. And extremely shy, like the Yeti, Bigfoot, the Abdominal Snowman (whom no one can stomach) and the Loch Ness ‘monster’.
Thank you General Fishtank for another valuable science lesson backed by evidence and geometric logic.
Mandrake
Puh leeze
And the Earth is flat too? And the Sun revolves around the Earth?
That crazy imam profiled in a few FR threads yesterday sounds a lot like some of this stuff.
So they are trying to say that tracks from 100 million years ago were made just 4500 years ago...
How far are these imprints from the nearest large body of water? What percentage of fossils requires aquatic activity in order to form?
The title for this piece is a bit misleading. The body brings out more clearly that we are dealing with evidence, not proof. Big difference.
yet more humor from the jokesters at CMI
Noah’s Ark could fit all animals because those animals still had not evolved yet. That ought to satisfy both believers and scientists.