BIRD TRACKS BEFORE BIRDS EXISTED?
The more this monkey reads about “evolution” the more ridiculous it seems. Is it any wonder that your world is in the mess it is in when your foundational world view is based on a lie? Thank you to Dr Don Batten for this thought provoking article. Click on Don’s name at the top of his article for his biography. Do not forget to subscribe to Creation magazine and help to support this outstanding Christian evangelistic ministry, (30 million hits in the last 3 moths), while educating and strengthening your own faith. Click on the link below: https://creation.com/magazines Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Bird tracks before birds existed? by Don Batten Trackways preserved in stone in South Africa look very much like those from modern birds. However, deep time ‘dating’ puts them at 215 million years ago, over 60 million years older than the oldest bird fossil (Archaeopteryx, 150 Ma).1 The evolutionary story that birds evolved from dinosaurs already had problems—for example, Archaeopteryx, a clearly flying bird, predates any of its supposed ancestors. How could a grandson be older than his grandfather?Deep time ‘dating’ puts them [the footprints] at 215 million years ago, over 60 million years older than the oldest bird fossil The researchers identified six characteristics of the prints that were consistent with birds making them. However, bird tracks that put birds back another 65 million years would compound the problem for the evolutionary story. Thus, the authors try to downplay the similarity to modern birds: “[the foot type] is not distinctly avian, as it lacks a well-developed digit III metatarsophalangeal pad and preserves no direct evidence of associated hallux [hind toe] impressions.” However, there are modern birds with a three-toe foot design (i.e. no hallux), such as cassowaries, emus, rheas, and bustards.The birds made the footprints on sediments already laid down [in the Flood],…