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Toeing the Line on Dinosaur Footprints
There are dinosaur footprints in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. People with an evolutionary worldview posit models that attempt to fit the facts into their presuppositions. This uniformitarian approach fails to explain the evidence in a credible manner, and requires explanations that defy credibility. On the other hand, biblical creationist scientists posit models for the Noachian flood, and the observed data support this view quite well.
In October 2012, Catalyst, the science television show of
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, featured amazing dinosaur
footprints from the Kimberleys in
north-west Australia.
Catalyst reporter Mark Horstman says, "You’ve gotta be quick
to study the fossils here. This tide is racing. And this was dry a few
minutes ago. The
tidal range is up to 10 metres, and the fossils are only visible at the
lowest of low tides, so that’s for a few hours for a few days for a few
months every year."
Sand is washed in and out of the area, continually revealing new
footprints. The program shows Steve Salisbury measuring a
recently-exposed sauropod footprint about 1.7 metres
long—a world record. He said the animal that made that print could be 7
or 8 metres high at the hip and more than 35 metres long.
These footprints were made during the global Flood of Noah’s day as recorded in the Bible.
There are so many clues in the rocks at that point to the catastrophe
of Noah’s Flood, yet Steve Salisbury and his team did not make the
connection. They have been trained for
years to think in one particular way, and Noah’s Flood is not on their
radar. Worse still, if they ever did seriously float that possibility
they would almost certainly lose
their jobs (see Expelled).
Indeed, the footprints help us work out the timing of when the rocks were laid down during that year-long catastrophe.
Clearly the land animals were alive when they made the prints, so the
floodwaters had not yet peaked. After that, there would be no footprints
because all land animals perished. Other
evidence of the timing comes from the geology and from the landscape.
This indicates it was not long before everything was inundated.
To finish reading, stroll over to "Huge dinosaurs flee rising waters of Noah’s Flood in Australia".