Explaining Fossil Dinosaur Eggs, Tracks, and More
Theories, models, worldviews, and other things need to be internally consistent. Atheism fails in this regard and is unliveable, so professing atheists (Rom. 1:18-19) have to stand on the biblical worldview. Likewise, believers in particles-to-paleontologist evolution often need to borrow from biblical creation science.
A student who claimed to believe the Bible lost faith because of fossil dinosaur footprints. He couldn't imagine a global Flood allowing for footprints. Problem is, he did not check for that internal consistency in creationist models, so he made assumptions instead of doing his homework.
Dinosaur tracks at Jurassic Moenave Formation, US Geological Survey (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) |
One of the challenges raised by anticreationists to Flood geology has been the evidence of obvious dinosaur activity in the chaos of the Flood. Millions of dinosaur tracks and eggs have been discovered across the world. Above and below each surface on which the tracks and eggs are found (their geological horizon) are sediments that creation geologists maintain were deposited by the Flood. How could dinosaurs be walking around making tracks and laying eggs during a global deluge?A similar challenge concerns the dinosaur bonebeds (graveyards). These show every sign that the animals were killed by a catastrophic flood. Even secular scientists often concede that, though they deny a global one. In a global Flood scenario, however, the continuing deluge activity was responsible for the further layers of sediment we see above these bonebeds—some of which contain more such graveyards.
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