The Institute for Creation Research has presented a video in which they discuss a plausible way dinosaur tracks may have been preserved throughout the continental earth-in the past. They argue against the tracks being made in swamps-and provide evidence that it does not occur under swamp or ocean side conditions seen today. The observed data show the tracks to be in clayey soils, consistent to water born matter. This thickened muddy matter appears to have allowed and maintained the dinosaur imprints for short periods of time, hence the lack of erosion in track areas, before being covered by multiple muddy slurries afterward. The mobility of the large dinosaurs may have allowed them to escape longer in the Flood while the young dinosaurs would have be overcome earlier-hence few if any baby prints with adult ones. The observation that dinosaur tracks have been found on all continents of the earth is consistent with the earth having been entirely covered by flood waters at one time.
JGL comment: ICR seems to advocate a similar mechanism as myself in which massive amounts of muddy matter has ebbed and flowed over the entire land mass in the past, which was one piece at least in the early to mid-Flood. Thus rapidly laid subsequent non-eroded as well as some eroded muddy layers would makeup the hardened stratified rock we see today; with dinosaur tracks preserved in amongst the strata.
Please note: that direct dinosaur track formation has never been observed and thus from a strict empiric observational view the exact mechanism can not be known. This allows for very different views on how they formed being advocated; yet using the same physical data but different religio-philosophic assumptions. It is imperative that people understand these assumptions regarding how earth history is presented.See articles regarding the interfacing of religion, philosophy, and science in developing a world view on my website:
www.DefendingtheChristianFaith.org
JGL comment: ICR seems to advocate a similar mechanism as myself in which massive amounts of muddy matter has ebbed and flowed over the entire land mass in the past, which was one piece at least in the early to mid-Flood. Thus rapidly laid subsequent non-eroded as well as some eroded muddy layers would makeup the hardened stratified rock we see today; with dinosaur tracks preserved in amongst the strata.
Please note: that direct dinosaur track formation has never been observed and thus from a strict empiric observational view the exact mechanism can not be known. This allows for very different views on how they formed being advocated; yet using the same physical data but different religio-philosophic assumptions. It is imperative that people understand these assumptions regarding how earth history is presented.See articles regarding the interfacing of religion, philosophy, and science in developing a world view on my website:
www.DefendingtheChristianFaith.org
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