This one is kind of interesting. I have heard a Creationist claim that
"scientists" (whoever they were) drop fossils from airplanes
-- presumably in a "Satanic" attempt to deceive humanity.
I've also heard another Creationist claim that "scientists"
(whoever they were) carve dinosaur bones out of soft rock and that's
how fossils are created (again, presumably as a "Satanic"
conspiracy of some kind.)
Here's another Creationist following in those same footprints (yes, the
pun which you'll be seeing later certainly is intended!) This is
one of the Creationist cultists who has managed to convince himself that
humans lives at the same time that dinosaurs did -- never mind the fact
that they existed some 180 million years ago or so.
His need to believe that humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs did
is based upon his religious occultism, not upon spending too many early
mornings watching cartoon episodes of "The Flintstones."
You'll note that the Creationist claims that fresh, unfossilized dinosaur
bones have been found somewhere and, like every Creationist lie, there is
no specific, testable references offered. - flr
Mon 10 Nov 97 18:05
Invented Dinosaurs!
Alec Grynspan:
It seems that a three-toed dinosaur walking flat-footed is really
several new types of dinosaurs!
Heiko Diekmann:
My Own Investigations Begin
When we selectively applied water to the markings, we found that we could
closely replicate the features in creationist photos.
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
In more technical terms, my thesis was that these dinosaurian trackmakers
evidently had, for some reason, walked in a basically flat-footed or
"plantigrade" fashion--rather than impressing their toes only
in a "digitigrade" fashion, as is more typical for bipedal
dinosaurs.
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
Laurie Appleton:
Heiko Diekmann:
Laurie Appleton:
Thanks for trying and doing your very very level best anyway!
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Laurie's scientific acumen shows itself here, where he accuses
evilutionists of inventing new dinosaurs to whitewash Paluxy.
The "human" prints in Taylor's film and other creationist
works were often lacking in detail, and fell short of the strong claims
about them. Yet some of the pictured trails did appear to consist of
striding sequences of roughly human-like footprints, any previously known
dinosaur tracks. A mystery remained.
Uh huh! Just fancy that eh?
While removing the sediment and debris from the site, we soon saw that
the alleged "man tracks" there were real elongate footprints,
occurring in left-right striding trails. And some did have roughly
humanlike shapes.
Hmmmm... Surprise surprise!
But as we exposed and cleaned more of the site, we found that at least
some prints in each trail splayed widely at the anterior end, and/or
exhibited shallow traces of long, tridactyl, digit patterns--more
compatible with dinosaur toes than human ones.
Since elsewhere your 'authority' spoke of "metatarsal" type
prints, I wonder why he now speaks of "tridactyl" as being
typically dinosaurian?
It became increasingly apparent that the alleged "man tracks"
at the site were neither human footprints, nor merely eroded specimens
of typical three-toed dinosaur tracks (as suggested by the Loma Linda
team), but evidently some type of unusual dinosaur tracks with elongate
"heels."
Ah ha! So we have to 'invent' a new kind of dinosaur to try to get
around the 'problem' do we? One that has a foot bone structure more like
humans eh? What a shame that evolutionists could NOT, on
"principle", opt for an Orangutan or an Australopithecine to
'explain' those footprints!! Here again they were doubtless
"constrained" by their other 'considerations' of the TIME
question eh?
Metatarsal Dinosaur Tracks Recognized
The plot starts to become distinctly "murky" here and lacks
any sort of "positive refutation" of the man tracks at all, as
we sally forth into conjecture and speculation of all sorts of things!
But whatever the reason for their shallowness, the anterior impressions
definitely indicated long, tridactyl digit patterns compatible with
dinosaur feet and inconsistent with human ones.
Oops! Our dinosaur tracks have now "flipped" back to
"tridactyl" ones and the "Metatarsal Dinosaur Tracks"
idea seems to be put aside for the moment. VERY 'convincing' indeed!
The "man track" advocates had apparently overlooked these
anterior features, and instead focused on the oblong, roughly-humanlike
metatarsal section at the rear.
Human-like! Perhaps there were "human like" animals at the time
of dinosaurs then just as there were "mammal like reptiles" too
eh? Give your 'authority' good marks for imagination shall we, even if we
cannot accept that he has really explained anything at all?
While delving into the scientific literature on dinosaur tracks, I could
find no previous reports of metatarsal dinosaur tracks in striding trails,
Hmmm... hardly surprising! Our friend seems to be in trouble doesn't he?
Several in striding sequence were dinosaur tracks with partial metatarsal
impressions; these Baugh had identified as human tracks overlapping
dinosaur tracks.
Ah! "partial" metatarsal (another unknown dinosaur?) impressions
bob up this time eh? This is certainly very very profound and
"convincing" research! As I said, since we have now found
unfossilized and "fresh" dinosaur bones anyway, all the above
musings, conjectures and profound investigation, becomes totally
meaningless anyway, doesn't it?
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