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Madelaine Inactive Member |
I hate to seem argumentative but...
quote:Regardless of its age, the point is still quite valid. Just because an argument is ignored doesn't mean it should be discounted quote:As a matter of fact, that is the place I am referring to, I'm rather imporessed you knew it. As far as it being "disavowed", I live rather close and have not heard such news, you may want to check that. quote:Again, I do not mean to sound arrogent or haughty at all but I have actually quite a bit of research on this subject, as well as most other mythological creatures. I do infact have a slight idea, as I'm sure you do as well, which is what makes a debate great.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 762 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Hey, Madelaine, if you can't be argumentative here, where can ya?
Really - "Dr" Carl Baugh is about as discredited as you can be with his footprints. The "human" prints, if I remember the web pictures, are about 15 inches long - not a typical shoe size. And they appear to be the back half of a dinosaur print, without the toe prints. The real issue, though, is that people have been digging up dinosaur bones for about 200 years now, and have yet to find a single human bone in the same stratum as a dinosaur bone - heck, they have yet to find anything like any modern mammal in with any dinosaur remains. Doesn't that seem a little odd, if people and dinosaurs supposedly coexisted? Now I, too, would like to know where dragon myths started, but I'd also like to know where myths of forty-foot-tall giants and of gods that lived above the clouds started, too. It may be nothing more than the storytelling instinct that a campfire brings out in some people...
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Madelaine Inactive Member |
The fossil I saw was not as your described. Both the dinosaur and the human had toes. Well the dinosuar had 3 "toe-like" features but I don't know their technical name. The human foot print had 2 distinct dimples where the toes should be and the other 3 could be seen but I could understand someone arguing that they're not there. I don't know the exact measurments of the foot but it appeared normal. Secondly, there are possiblities as to why there are not other fossils found with dino- fossils. The Egyptians, for instance, put their dead in tombs, in which case their bones would not be found with dino- bones because they were not buried. Many civilzation could have had the same custom. It is also possible (this sounds gross, I'm sorry if it offends you) that the dead could have been burned and their bones ground into dust and possibly even used for other things. It sounds morbid but its not a foriegn concept.
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Admin Director Posts: 13038 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Since Madelaine would like to pursue Paluxy River, let's give the evos a real challenge. Here's a detailed paper on Paluxy River from ICR: Acts and Facts Magazine | The Institute for Creation Research. It's far too long to address in a single thread, but perhaps someone can pick out a facet or two to focus on.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
In reading through the ICR paper, this paragraph stood out to me:
quote: Even if both the human and dinosaur tracks showed strong evidence of being what they seemed, that would NOT harmonize with the real abundance of data that indicates that the earth and the life of earth has a very long history, not at all like that of the YEC time frame. Moose
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David unfamous Inactive Member |
Why analyse an article that has been refuted by so many others? Here's one such response that should be read word by word:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/retrack.html "Morris' claim that the "human-like" depressions are "fairly consistent in length" is unfounded, since:1. None of the depressions are very human-like, 2. The same depressions have been interpreted in vastly different ways by different creationist authors — some claiming they were "giant human prints" from 16 to 19 inches long, and others, such as Morris and Stan Taylor, indicating that the "best" prints in the trail represented normal sized feet about 10 inches long. Baugh and Patton recently attempted to show that the "new" human prints (in the same dinosaur tracks) are each 11.5 inches long. This they did by partially filling each track with muddy water until a puddle about 11.5 inches long was achieved! [This message has been edited by David unfamous, 02-24-2003]
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Peter Member (Idle past 1506 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
If the human prints actually are in every dino. track
and the ICR article's age of 38000 years is accurate how can we rule out man having invented flippers for under water fishing?
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David unfamous Inactive Member |
Ah, you must be talking about the famous River Thames flipper tracks — flipper tracks right next to flip-flop tracks.
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Peter Member (Idle past 1506 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
In all seriousness though, the existence of an undiscovered
large reptile when man was alive doesn't proove a young earth in any case. I think this came up a few months ago, not sure in which threadthough.
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Madelaine Inactive Member |
Admin, I fail to see where the essay you've presented disproves the foot prints? It does give possiblities that may account for a few fossils, but it doesn't discount them altogether? Why then is this an "out dated" argument?
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Admin Director Posts: 13038 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Hi Madelaine,
When I post as Admin I'm not a participant in the debate. I instead try to play a moderator role by keeping discussion on track and guiding it to fruitful areas of inquiry. The article I posted a link to is from ICR - in other words, it's on your side. I was trying to provide you some helpful ammunition. By the way, if you use the little "reply" button that's at the bottom of this message (look down about an inch) then it'll be easier to figure out who you're replying to because it will cause your reply to be listed in the "Replies to this message" list. The general "reply" buttons at the top and bottom of the webpage will not do this. --------------------EvC Forum Administrator
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The Arachnophile Inactive Member |
...is whether creationists and common sense can co-exist?
The Arachnophile
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w_fortenberry Member (Idle past 6134 days) Posts: 178 From: Birmingham, AL, USA Joined: |
quote: Wouldn't it be much more valid for the people at Talk Origins to go to the Paluxy River and measure the inconsistencies of the tracks rather than claim that the creationists have not agreed on the size?
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David O Inactive Member |
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Karl Inactive Member |
That site could only be the answer to a very silly question.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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