Human footprints in stone from the era of the dinosaurs

In the early 1900s a man by the name of Charlie Moss reportedly found human footprints among dinosaur footprints in the limestone riverbanks of the Paluxey River in Texas.  There are numerous dinosaur prints left in the rocks in that area, so much so that a portion of the land has been set aside as “Dinosaur Park.” But, in addition, many people claim to have seen human footprints among the dinosaur prints; some footprints were even cut out of the rock to be sold, and eventually this prompted charges from evolutionists that the human prints had been carved as a hoax for profit. So, in the early 1980s Dr. Carl Baugh and others began searching for corroborating evidence.

In March of 1982, on land leased from a local resident who had both pictures and stories of his own finds, they began to find many apparently human footprints intermingled with those of dinosaurs. In some instances, whoever or whatever left the footprints appeared to have been running as if to flee some common disaster (like, say a massive flood!). The limestone rock in which these footprints were discovered was in most instances buried by several feet of undisturbed sediment that had to be carefully dug away. Geologists affirm that the material in which the prints were found would have hardened like modern concrete within twenty-four hours of deposition, confirming that the prints found were undoubtedly made within hours or even minutes of each other.

On March 16, 1982, a clearly defined human footprint was found only eighteen inches from a large dinosaur print—these were found underneath a layer of undisturbed limestone twelve inches thick.1 [see photo] In one instance, a human footprint was found partially obliterated by a dinosaur that had stepped on the print—either that or it was a dinosaur foot that had human toes protruding from one side!  After only two days of excavation, four human footprints had been uncovered in the same area as twenty-three dinosaur prints.  Geologists and members of the press were invited to come and examine the finds as they were being made!  Some of the later finds were filmed while being uncovered and even reported in the local press.2

Since that time, a number of additional finds have been made in the same general area including a fossilized human finger, the fossilized skeletal remains of a human being, a fossilized stegosaurus, as well as many more footprints in several layers and locations.3  In any unbiased study these finds would be clear and incontrovertible evidence that human beings and dinosaurs existed together fairly recently. And, truth be told, there have been have been numerous finds throughout the world of human (or “humanlike”) footprints in rock layers that are “far too old” to contain such features, though they were not found in conjunction with obvious dinosaur prints.

As Scientific American reported in 1940, “on sites reaching from Virginia and Pennsylvania, through Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and westward toward the Rocky Mountains, [humanlike prints] have from time to time been found on the surface of exposed rocks, and more and more keep turning up as the years go by.  What made these prints? [Hmmm, what could possibly have made “humanlike” prints?]  As yet the answer is unknown to science. They look like human footprints and it has often been said . . . that they really are human footprints made in the soft mud before it became rock.  [However], if man made these prints in this manner, then man’s antiquity is no matter of a mere million years or so, as scientists think [sic], but a quarter of a billion years, for . . . these rocks were laid down about 250,000,000 years ago [italics added].”4

Once again notice that it is the previous belief in the concept of billions of years of time that distorts and colors the far simpler and more obvious interpretation of the evidence.  Who was it that said, “I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it”?  A perfect illustration of the way interpretation of data is colored by prior beliefs can be seen in a Los Angeles Times article from December of 2005.  The article states that British scientists had discovered fossilized human footprints in volcanic ash that they had dated to be forty thousand years old.  They consequently concluded that this “proved that humans had colonized the Americas much earlier than 11,500 years ago, as previously believed.”5  Subsequently, UC Berkley geologist Paul Renne used radioactive dating methods to analyze the rocks and came to the conclusion that the rocks in question were actually 1.3 million years old, "proving" that, therefore, the footprints “are not human in origin . . .”6  Incredible!  No observer raised any doubt about either the authenticity or the humanity of the footprints’ source until it was concluded that the prints were actually older than first believed.  And way too old to have been human footprints, based on the belief in evolution . . .

The reality is that humans and dinosaurs have always been contemporaries, the dating systems are based largely on the fiction of evolution, and the footprints in stone, for the most part, were actually left when both men and animal were fleeing from the rising waters of the global flood outlined in Genesis chapters six through ten.

1 Baugh, Dr. Carl E., & Wilson, Clifford A.  Dinosaur: Scientific Evidence That Dinosaurs and Men Walked Together, 2nd ed. Promise Publishing Co, 1991, 11.
2 Helfinstine, Robert F., & Roth, Jerry D.  Texas Tracks and Artifacts: Do Texas Fossils Indicate Coexistence of Men and Dinosaurs? 1994.
3 cf., Baugh (Dinosaurs) and Helfinstine (Texas Tracks)
4 Ingalls, Albert G. “The Carboniferous Mystery.”  Scientific American. Vol. 162 (January 1940): 14.
5 Raksin, Alex.  “Study Raises Doubts About 40,000-Year-Old ‘Footprints.’”  Los Angeles Times. (December 2005)
6 Ibid.