Readers’ comments:
Jenny R., New Zealand, 23 February 2010
This is such a logical explanation of why so many dinosaurs are trying to escape
together. All and sundry are then buried by flood sediments which are being deposited
in a continuous sequence, layer upon layer, as rising flood waters advance higher
and higher across the land. The fossil evidence agrees so well with this scenario
that acceptance of a global flood as a cause of mass extinction seems conclusive-but
is at the same time conspicuous by its absence in conventional evolutionary theory.
Grahame G., Australia, 23 February 2010
I love the gentle sarcasm of this article. A very gracious way of pointing out the
absurdity of the evolutionary system.
Anthony W., Australia, 23 February 2010
Thanks for your good work and interesting articles. Read this article with interest
and I agree with your conclusion that they were most likely fleeing from rising
flood waters. Just being a ‘devil’s advocate’ though, say that
the T-Rex was chasing some smaller animals, with several species fleeing at the
same time (I know I would!) couldn’t the footprints all be facing the same
way in this situation?
Response: When a predator suddenly descends on a group of animals
they’ll often scatter in all directions.
Risteard S., Ireland, 24 February 2010
I agree that so many animals fleeing in the one direction fits flight from the Deluge.
Also, as you say, animals fleeing from a predator often scatter in all directions.
Two further puzzles, though. Why were so many footprints found in such a small area
of about 2600 square metres (less than two-thirds of an acre? Were they fleeing
along a narrow strip of shallow water-or muddy land-like the Egyptian army following
Israel through the Red Sea? (If so, these dinosaurs shared the fate of the Egyptians!)
If, however, the apparent escape route was wider, are there even more footprints
yet to be discovered in nearby areas?
Paul H., United States, 24 February 2010
Not much point in commenting except to say it’s the first time for me to see
this article, and I also enjoyed the comments at the bottom.
Since the Paluxy River (Texas) has been considered unreliable, I have kept my eye
out for records or articles of human footprints within dinosaur prints. Of course
humans are so much lighter that such prints would be difficult to find even if they
exist. But it seems that I remember one of your Grand Canyon articles showing footprints
of a fairly small animal in the act of fleeing something (probably the Flood). I
am wondering if, with ideal soil conditions, human prints might be found in this
China site? It would make sense to me that humans would follow a pack of dinosaurs
considering them instinctively capable of fleeing in the best direction to escape
danger.
Eric B., United States, 24 February 2010
I’m a young earth creationist and love your articles but could you explain
to me how mud could flow in, in large amounts, then have dinosaurs etc. run across
that fresh mud then quickly harden in less than a few days WHILE IT IS TORRENTIALLY
RAINING and then be covered by more mud. (1) If they were running from the rising
water, the tracks would be instantly covered and not preserved. (2) How can they
have any chance of hardening in less than 40 days while it is raining cats and dogs?
If you could explain this I would appreciate it!
Brian H., Canada. 24 February 2010
I enjoy that God gave us proof of his works. I remember a story about human footprints
inside of dinosaur prints in a riverbed in the US. The human prints were chiseled
away before the area was opened as a park. Have you heard of this, and is there
any real proof, or just stories?
Richard M., United States, 24 February 2010
I am bemused at the spectacle of herds of dinosaurs fleeing before the raging flood
waters which overtake and drown them while leaving their footprints in the soft
mud undisturbed and intact. Watery destruction can be so selective at times.
Patrick A., United States, 24 February 2010
I think the direction flight of the dinosaurs it is very telling as to how quickly
these waters must have risen and the violence with which they rose. A hard rain
isn’t going to strike terror into animals necessarily, nor would it send them
all in the same direction, but something cataclysmic and sudden would.
Max H., United States, 24 February 2010
Thanks for this article! I found it very interesting. However in the pre-Flood world
we’re assuming that the dinosaurs are living alongside other members of God’s
creation, like the mammals, right? If this is true why are we finding only dinosaur
tracks at this site? Wouldn’t it make sense for there to be mammal tracks
as well if the animals were all fleeing at once? If you could address that for me
that’d be great, and if we just don’t know, that’s fine too. Thanks!
Geraint H., United Kingdom, 24 February 2010
Its just fantastic how when you read about a find like this, it immediately agrees
with and demonstrates the accuracy of God’s Word. Especially in relation to
the global flood. Its like a boost to the Bible-believer’s worldview.
Pat S., United States, 25 February 2010
Wow that is a great article. So, just out of curiosity, why didn’t Noah take
any dinosaurs on his boat? Since he built the ark large enough for millions of other
species you would think he would have enough space for dinosaurs too. Maybe the
dinosaurs caught "Dinosaur Flu" while on the boat and died? Could they have possible
been engaging in sodomy and thus incurred God’s rather? Since clearly all
species that have ever existed on Earth all existed at the same time prior to the
flood there must have been a really long line to get on the ark. Maybe the dinosaurs
were just at the back of the line and the ark closed before they could get on? Science
has proven that dinosaurs are notorious procrastinators. Gosh ! there are just so
many plausible theories it’s hard to find any holes in this article. I mean
certainly we wouldn’t find the rocks containing these footprints or the fossils
themselves to be many millions of years old if we were to use radioactive dating,
right? It’s funny how there are no mentions of "Giant Lizards" in the Old
Testament, seeing as how dinosaurs were on the earth at the same time as those humans.
Then again why mention a 5 story tall 50 ton lizards trying to eat everyone. I’m
sure the sticks and rocks people had at that time kept them at bay. It’s also
interesting how cave paintings from the "time of the flood" don’t show any
dinosaurs either. Maybe they couldn’t make green paint to draw them? That’s
probably it. Could they have actually all been running the same direction because
they saw a family of Jehovah’s witnesses coming down their street towards
them? Just another theory to consider.
Response:
Dinosaurs Q&A has answers to many of these sorts of questions.
Dan B., United States, 13 March 2010
One has to bear in mind a couple of factors that could affect water level at any
given location during the Flood:
- It apparently took 40 days for all of the Flood Water to fall down out of the sky
and shoot up out of the ground, during which time Mean Sea Level would have continued
to rise.
- As ocean volume increased—especially if the water input was not equally distributed
in every time zone—tides would become more violent with each passing cycle,
especially going into the Spring Tide phase of the lunar cycle about five days into
the Flood, and every two weeks thereafter. Any changes to the earth’s angular
momentum caused by water descending from the Floodgates of the Sky would also have
had an effect on the tides.
Putting these factors together, it means that as water levels began to rise, the
initial effect would be tidal waves sweeping up from the coast. Eventually there
would come a point where the entire time zones would be submerged at each succeeding
High Tide, only to re-emerge when the Tide passed, until eventually the water level
was high enough for all land areas to be submerged, even at low tide.
Therefore, initially animals would have been fleeing the approach of flood tide,
which came farther inland every tide cycle, followed by the retreat of ebb tide,
during which time animals may well have walked back into the deposits laid down
by the previous onrushing tide. The next tide would have carried in more sediments,
to cover up the footprints they had just made.
I’m not aware of any computer modeling that has been done to estimate the
effects of that much water being added to the ocean in only 40 days, but it sounds
like a worthy project for a marine hydrologist to undertake.
Response: Here’s one study: M.E. Clark and H.D. Voss, Resonance and Sedimentary
Layering in the Context of a Global Flood, Second International Conference on Creationism,
Vol. II, Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 53-63, 1990.
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