http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/17/sc...nosaurian.html
Now I attended a 8-week ORIGINS cl*** back in the 1990s as taught personally by Mr Ken Ham, and at that time he was clearly dropping the reference in his cl*** to any arguments based on finding human and Dino footprints.
I believe this is because it was known even back then to Creationist teachers at that time that the so-called "proof" was suspected to be a total hoax.
As far as I know, modern YEC textbooks have dropped most if not all references to this hoax.
There may be some older YEC videos still being p***ed around, as well as there might be new YEC websites that are still using the same stock footage by the guys who promoted this hoax, but thankfully most YEC textbooks and websites that are updated do not make any listing of this hoax.
I actually remember when this argument first came forth and I think it was a Christian mag called CHRISTIANITY TODAY that sent a editor down who also happens to be a hunter to have a look what was going on?
What he later wrote about finding was a Bible Sunday school cl*** doing the work on the tracks!
What the students told the writer is that they were instructed by their Bible teacher to remove any stone with picks that did not look like a human footprint.
The students were observed placing their own feet into the tracks, and then feeling what stone they should chip away to end up with a more human-looking print.
So in the end, the Writer decided that the whole idea is a hoax.
as far as I can tell, they have now been able to actually name the type Dino that made the tracks that later were misidentified as human....
Alan, all four links you provided are from liberal, Godless, publications and with immoral advertisements. Do these sources
walk hand in hand with scriptures? Why would you use such sources unless you agree with them?
step one....if you cant stand the news...blame the messenger....
Now I dont really find a lot of blame against the YEC believers I run into on the web for getting sucked-in by the old fake YEC story about the "found footprints"....However I do find fault in these people not bothering to listen to the evidence when it is later shown to be a complete fake story.
con-men like the Mormon Smith, as well as others in history have one thing in common with each other. That thing is that all con-men understand that if you tell a person what they wanted to hear, you dont have to have all that much proof behind what you are saying.
The people back in the 60s and 70 that had books they were selling that were about UFOs and Bigfoot, sold them to people that "wanted to believe"....so they did not have to have all that great of proof to yet be believed by the people that really wanted to believe.
Its the same with the Dino/human footprint story.
The story was a hoax told to the church by men who understand that they did not have to have a lot of proof to yet be totally believed by some people, because some people really wanted to believe no matter what!
thats why this story spread in the 1970sand got so much attention.
People wanted to believe.
and if you want to believe that much, then it dont really matter how fake the proof is, you will believe it no matter what.
Alan you are sinning by pushing the demonic lie of Macroevolution.
