Dinosaur and Human Foot Print?

Question

Was there really a human foot print next to a dinosaurs? Couldn't he just have walked next to it millions (or billions) of years later?

Answer 1

No.

The "Taylor Trail" in Texas  supposedly has human footprints in the same rock as dinosaurs.

"I can testify that none of the Taylor Trail tracks (or other trails on the site) contain clear human features, and most do not even closely resemble human prints. In fact, the new "man track" claims are not really new, but are simply variations on the old, thoroughly refuted claims. "

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/r...

There's a dinosaur track way located in a stream near Glen Rose,Texas It's been know since c.1918. During the 1930s several locals made money chiseling "giant" foot prints into loose rocks and selling them.

The so-called "man tracks" are those of a biped dinosaur. They show the V form rear as well as other typical dinosaur foot characteristics. Once these were examined and discredited has human the creationist claims were that a man followed the dinosaurs and stepped exactly in each of the dinosaur tracks Added to this are creationist claims that tracks were cut out, vandalized and have eroded.

The tracks were made when the stone was wet mud. It then hardened into rock and was covered with an overlayer of dirt. It's not possible that it would return to mud just long enough for more tracks to be made.

Most creationists have quietly dropped their claims of the tracks. There's still some sites out there claiming their human and likely that's where you learned about it.

If you do a search "Taylor Trail" or "Human dinosaur" in Yahoo answers, you'll find more then a half dozen times this question has been asked and answered.

Answer 2

Not only human footprints but horse hoove prints, out of place fossils, etc..

http://www.creationscience.com/onlineboo...

There are also many thousands of cave drawings, paintings, petroglyphs, temples, fabrics and ancient artifacts from around the world which show man and dinosaurs co-existed until fairly recent times.

A temple carving from Angkor Wat, Cambodia that depicts a stegosaur from around 1200 AD

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks-cambod...

More info on man and dinosaurs co-existing

http://www.dinosaursandman.com/index.php...

Answer 3

I doubt this.  For a dinosaur foot print to be preserved the dino had to have walked through mud.  After the mud dries it would be covered by other soil and dirt and then after millions of years of pressure from the above sand/dirt/soil the foot print becomes a rock fossil.  It would not happen that after millions of years a human could walk through the same area and create a footprint in mud that still exists.

as far as I understand

Answer 4

It was shown to be the footprint of another dinosaur, except for a couple that were fakes carved by creationists.

http://paleo.cc/paluxy/paluxy.htm

Answer 5

I believe that"Alya" has the answer.

You have to watch them creationists, they be a slinky bunch.

Answer 6

There certainly was Rose. The Taylor Trail. Texas. The prints of a three toed dinasaur and what looks like human footprints all set in ancient volcanic rock, dated to over a 100 million years old.

Answer 7

No and no. The first answerer covered the second part of your question. As for whether they are even human footprints-  they aren't. They just somewhat resemble human footprints because of their elongation and rounded heel, and some young earth creationists try to use it to support the idea that the world is only 6000 years old (by demonstrating dinos and humans coexisted, despite all of the massive amounts of evidence indicating otherwise).

They look like human prints at first glance, but closer inspection reveals they are actually dinosaur prints as well. They differ in many ways from what would be expected for human tracks. For example, most displayed a wide "V" at the front of the foot, as well as long, shallow grooves in positions also at the front that are incompatible with the human foot. The elongated shape suggests it was a dinosaur that actually walked on its heel as well as its toes (rather than just on its toes like most bipedal dinos). Similar tracks have since been observed elsewhere, some much less eroded than those on the Taylor Track and clearly displaying three toes.

Hope that information helped.

Answer 8

Humans weren't alive when dinosaurs were.

So, either what you're referring to was a hoax, or, yes, someone walked there much later than the dinosaur died there. (Not billions of years later; but millions.)