Hugh Miller of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation has made another amazing find in the Paluxy River -- human footprints in strata that evolutionists say is millions of years old. What's more is that earlier, dinosaur footprints were found in strata above where the human footprint was found, and Hugh, who is continuing the excavations throughout the summer, expects to find many more. Paluxy, if you remember, is also the place where human footprints were found inside dinosaur footprints, and of which the evolutionists scurried to create all kinds of wild and silly excuses. Our hats off to Mr. Miller and his fine work. Praise be to the Creator of heaven and earth!

Robert Sungenis

Advisory Board for the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation

 

 

It is a well established fact that the theory of biological evolution over eons of time, whether of the atheistic or theistic variety is the foundation of the nineteenth century "culture of death" that is now so prevalent. Thus the above fossil human footprint is another nail in the coffin of evolutionism's favorite propaganda ploy that wants us to believe dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.

This impression is the ninety second fossil human footprint excavated on the McFall ledge of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose TX since 1982. They include three short fossil human trails discovered under tons of cretaceous rock strata claimed by evolutionism to be ~108 million years old. Only a few dinosaur prints are on the top strata and if we are ever allowed to excavate the next three or so strata down to the river bottom many more prints of both species are expected to be uncovered. The original controversial long Taylor trail in the bottom of the river and two other trails, the McFall and Ryal trails were confirmed during the 1999 draught.

Radiocarbon dating of fossil vegetable matter and actual dinosaur bone fragments from Texas to Alaska show that the sediments were laid down very rapidly only 1000's of years ago at least in this region. The study of how sediments form in both lab and flume studies confirm that the C-14 dating is relatively accurate [using a correlation equation (Brown, CRSQ 1992)and that evolution is nothing more than a fairy tale for susceptible adults and students].

The dimensions of this newly discovered pristine left footprint [excavated by Bea Dunkel and Kathy Clark] in the second strata and the left foot of a live 6-1/2' tall man are compared as follows [Scott Hogue wetted his foot before inserting into the impression; the remains of his wet foot in a previous photo op can vaguely be seen next to the impression]:

Fossil human impression Man

~12-14 inches long, left foot 12.1 inches long
~4.5 inches wide at ball of foot 4.5 inches wide
~1.75 inch wide great toe 1.75 inches wide
heel width was indistinct 3.0 inches wide
Toe tips were barely visible NA
Distinct human arch same, fits into impression
Distinct human-like toe taper of ~42 degrees same, fits into impression
(distinct although shallow toe impressions)

Analysis:

(1) The great or big toe was the dead give-away to the excavators as to the identity of the individual who made this fossil impression (ichnite) followed by the toe taper and the depth of the impression at the toes and the ball of the foot; this often is the case with fossil human footprint impressions in this "friable" difficult to read surface when shallow human impressions are discovered. As with other cases the ball of the foot of this one was the deepest part of the impression as pointed out by Carl Baugh during a close inspection. Mr. Scott Hogue the 6' 6" person who put his foot into the impression agreed that it fit perfectly snug from the arch forward. [Technical reference: Fields, Miller et. al. International Creation Conference, 1990]

(2) The indistinct heel caused a bit of a dispute because of the lack of depth and residual cemented pebbles in the heel area. It was originally thought to be a 13.5 - 14 inch long print that belonged to the discontinuous Clark trail or series. But upon closer examination of the width of the ball of the foot it might really belong to a person with a 12 inch long foot. To be specific this Clark series is a bit shy of 14 inches with a 5 inch wide ball of the foot and this impression appears to be ~4.5 inches wide at the ball thus suggesting a mystery until another excavation is completed.

(3) This writer was able to excavate a few inches under the rock about 3-4 feet in front of the above impression earlier in the week and there appeared to be a slide-in that could belong to a second print made by this same individual. Because of these two discoveries the land owner has granted Carl Baugh and the CEM team permission to return October 17-22, 2005 to complete the excavation. The weather was too hot (100-110 F) to work past noon each day and time had run out on the June 13-17 dig. As Mr McFall aptly put it, "I see no problem with a fall excavation; that's when I'd want to dig!"

So there you have it. The photo was taken with a throw away Kodak camera with digital capabilities that I took advantage of for a total of ~$30 which included disc. Enjoy and be sure to enlarge the photo for more detail. Better lighting conditions will be used during the next excavation and if more prints are uncovered the plans are to raise sufficient funds to remove all impressions with dinosaur ones to place in the museum for preservation and circulation to other museums; technical papers to major scientific journals would follow. If anyone comes across better shots of this print from some of the other 50 or so volunteers on this "Public Excavation" please let us all see them.

If for some reason this photo is not down-loadable for you please advise and send you PO address.

Best regards, Hugh

PS: DVD's and video tapes of the excavation will be available in a month or so.

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