Re: Mexican markings and chronological chaos




On 1/30/06 5:36 PM, in article OxwDf.144885$6K2.78876@edtnps90, "Grendel"
<nadda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> by Dr. David Menton, AiGË?USA
>
> January 30, 2006
>
> Dr. Sylvia Gonzales of John Moores University in Liverpool, England
> reported in 2005 about the discovery of 269 footprints preserved in
> volcanic ash in the Valsequillo region of central Mexico. Approximately
> 60% of the prints were identified as human, with 36% of these classified
> as childrenâ??s because of their size. The remaining prints included dogs,
> cats and animals with cloven feet (possibly deer, camels or cattle).
> The footprints were made during volcanic eruptions and a massive flood
>
> Apparently, the footprints were made shortly after the deposition of the
> volcanic ash and were preserved as trace fossils by the fast deposition
> of fine-grained, water-deposited sediment. The volcanic ash and many
> layers of overlying water deposited sediment then quickly hardened,
> preserving the footprints in exquisite detail. No surprise for biblical
> creationists so far.
>
> The researchers were able to classify many of these footprints as human
> because they demonstrated several characteristics unique to man, including:
>
> * pedal arches, where foot bones form two perpendicular arches that
> normally meet the ground only at the heel and ball of the foot.
> * toe impressions, where visible, showed a non-divergent big toe
> about twice the size as its adjacent toe
> * deep heel and ball impressions, encircled by the typical â??figure
> of eightâ?° contours
> * several examples of footprints in a left-right sequence showing
> the distinctive human stride pattern
>
> rest here
> http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0130mexican_footprints.asp

The site says "Evolutionists are unhappy with 40,000-year-old human
footprints in Mexico" -- but from what I have been able to find online,
there is no "unhappy", per se. It would definitely displace a theory about
when humans first inhabited this continent, but nothing is sacred in science
-- except following the evidence.

The very fact that "evolutionists" are willing to examine this evidence and
incorporate it into the knowledge we possess is a testimony to their
intellectual honesty.

Some links of interest regarding this:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050704/footprints.html

http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=1883

http://www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk/research/datefoot.htm (This site is
quite comprehensive. A detailed discussion of several advanced dating
methods is given.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/05/wfoot05.xml&;
sSheet=/news/2005/07/05/ixworld.html


>
> Lessons from Laetoli?
>
> It is fascinating to contrast the Mexican footprints in volcanic ash
> with the famous Laetoli (Tanzania) footprints in volcanic ash discovered
> by Mary Leaky in 1975. Like the Mexican footprints, both the shape of
> the Laetoli footprints and their distinctive left-right stride pattern
> are identical to that of modern man, yet these prints were dated by
> radiometric methods to be 3.5 million years old!
>
> Since evolutionists are dead certain that there were no humans around
> 3.5 million years ago, how did they deal with the Laetoli footprints?
> Rather than conclude that they were just â??markings,â?° these footprints
> were declared to have been made by an ape-like creature that had feet
> identical to modern man and who walked in precisely the same way as
> modern man. Most evolutionists believe that the extinct ape
> Australopithecus afarensis (commonly known as â??Lucyâ?°) made these
> footprints even though there is compelling evidence that apes of this
> type were long-armed knuckle walkers with heavily muscled apelike feet
> similar to that of a pygmy chimp (J. Stern & R. Sussman, Am. J. Phys.
> Anthropology 60:279Ë?212, 1983).
>
> Pity the evolutionists: they canâ??t force ape feet into the Laetoli
> footprints and they canâ??t pull human feet out of the Mexican foot prints.
>
> http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0130mexican_footprints.asp

Oh, put a sock in it. If you want to know how "evolutionists" deal with it,
why don't you look here?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/1/l_071_03.html

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/laetoli.htm

It looks like we deal with the issue just fine. Granted, the discovery
raises a lot of interesting questions (as any good discovery will). But the
questions do not undermine the importance or basic meaning of the discovery.

But I really appreciate your posting the article. It gave me a chance to
google some really nifty web sites.

Regards,

Raymond E. Griffith



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