I have done extensive postings about the findings of a professor of geology at berea and his find of several human footprints that date much older than any human evolutionary human. I will post the original post in the next section:
There are a lot of generic websites of pictures of drawings and not pictures found at the source (berea college and museams). Please don't waste time with these as they are simply sketches and not the documentation of evidence.
Sources on this page from Michael cremo and a blog entitled:
Radaractive: Human footprints from 250 million years ago? Ian Juby follows up on a mystery from the 1930's, and another Delk situation is discerned.
Genetic studies show that primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period, and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around 55 million years ago.- wikipedia
why is it that there is evidence of 300 million year old footprints (10 times older than expected). Seems to contradict K-AR dating.
Below from Michael Cremo:
6.3.2 Human Footprints from the carboniferous
Our final examples of anomalous pre-Tertiary evidence are not in the category of fossil human bones, but rather in the category of fossil humanlike footprints. Professor W. G. Burroughs, head of the department of geology at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, reported (1938, p. 46): during the beginning of the Upper Carboniferous (Coal Age) Period, creatures that walked on their two hind legs and had human-like feet, left tracks on a sand beach in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. This was the period known as the Age of Amphibians when animals moved about on four legs or more rarely hopped, and their feet did not have a human appearance. But in Rockcastle, Jackson and several other counties in Kentucky, as well as in places from Pennsylvania to Missouri inclusive, creatures that had feet strangely human in appearance and that walked on two hind legs did exist. The writer has proved the existence of these creatures in Kentucky. With the cooperation of Dr. C. W. Gilmore, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Smithsonian Institution, it has been shown that similar creatures lived in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
The Upper Carboniferous (the Pennsylvanian) began about 320 million years ago (Harland et al. 1982, p. 94). It is thought that the first animals capable of walking erect, the pseudosuchian thecodonts, appeared around 210 million years ago (Desmond 1976, p. 86). These lizardlike creatures, capable of running on their hind legs, would not have left any tail marks since they carried their tails aloft. But their feet did not look at all like those of human beings; rather they resembled those of birds. Scientists say the first appearance of apelike beings was not until around 37 million years ago, and it was not until around 4 million years ago that most scientists would expect to find footprints anything like those reported by Burroughs from the Carboniferous of Kentucky.
Burroughs (1938, p. 46) stated: The footprints are sunk into the horizontal surface of an outcrop of hard, massive grey sandstone on the O. Finnell farm. There are three pairs of tracks showing left and right footprints. . . . Each footprint has five toes and a distinct arch. The toes are spread apart like those of a human being who has never worn shoes. Kent Previette (1953) wrote: Scientists and travelers who have seen the tracks which he [Burroughs] proved to be genuine, or studied photographs of them, state that they resemble those of the most primitive people of the Andes, the aboriginal Chinese, and the South Sea islandersall being people who have never worn shoes.
Giving more details about the prints, Burroughs (1938, p. 46) stated: The length of the foot from the heel to the end of the longest toe is nine and one-half inches though this length varies slightly in different tracks. The width across the ball of the foot is 4.1 inches while the width including the spread of the toes is about six inches. The foot curves back like a human foot to a human appearing heel. These humanlike tracks are thus quite distinct, unlike the more famous but indistinct Paluxy man tracks reported in Biblical creationist literature.
David L. Bushnell, an ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution suggested the prints were carved by Indians (Science News Letter 1938a, p. 372). In ruling out this hypothesis, Dr. Burroughs (1938, pp. 4647) used a microscope to study the prints and noted: The sand grains within the tracks are closer together than the sand grains of the rock just outside the tracks due to the pressure of the creatures feet. Even the sand grains in the arch of one of the best preserved tracks are not as close together as in the heel of the same track, though closer together than the sand outside the track. This is because there was more pressure upon the heel than beneath the arch of the foot. In comparing the texture of sandstone only the same kind of grains and combinations of grains within and outside of the tracks are considered. The sandstone adjacent to many of the tracks is uprolled due to the damp, loose sand having been pushed up around the foot as the foot sank into the sand. The forward part of one track is covered by solid Pottsville sandstone only a few days or weeks younger than the sandstone in which is the track. Another track nearby is also partially covered by solid Pottsville sandstone of the Coal Age. These facts led Burroughs to conclude that the humanlike footprints were formed by compression in the soft, wet sand before it consolidated into rock some 300 million years ago.
-Michael Cremo
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Radaractive: Human footprints from 250 million years ago? Ian Juby follows up on a mystery from the 1930's, and another Delk situation is discerned.
3) Special report #1: The strange fossil footprints of Berea, Kentucky
Several years back, with the help of friends in high places, I had managed to track down (pun intended) an article from 1940 documenting the Berea, Kentucky fossil human footprints inCarboniferous rocks. Allegedly 250 million years old, fossil footprints in such rock are a huge problem for evolutionists who claim that humans had not evolved until the last 500,000 years or so, and our allegedly ancient hominid ancestors some 5 million years ago.
These footprints had been cited by creationists for years, and fossil human footprints being one of my specialties, I of course wanted to follow up on it. The article was in Scientific American, January issue. It contained four photos of which I took one quick glance, and with disappointment said Nope, those are carvings, not genuine fossil footprints.
In fact, it was this very article from which many of you will have undoubtedly heard the quote by author Albert Ingalls, saying:
If man, or even his ape ancestor, or even that ape ancestors early mammalian ancestor, existed as far back as in the Carboniferous Period in any shape, then the whole science of geology is so wrong that all the geologists will resign their jobs and take up truck driving.
Hence, for the present at least, science rejects the attractive explanation that man made these mysterious prints in the mud of the Carboniferous Period with his feet.
Apparently I was not the only one to reject the Berea tracks as carvings, based on the photos provided in SciAm. The story that unfolded over the next year surprised me. A gentleman I had met via the internet, David Willis, had wanted to go to Berea to investigate these tracks. David turned out to be an incredible sleuth, finding out all kinds of details about the tracks and the archives at the college in Berea, as well as another alleged fossil human footprint in Tennessee which I had only seen on television.
I was in Ohio in 2009, and had a couple of days to spare before heading back to Canada. Davids schedule also permitted him time, so we set out to Berea.
Professor Burroughs was the gentleman who originally studied the Berea tracks. A geologist who founded the geology departmentand taught at Berea college, there is now a small museum named after him in the college. I would dare say that little museum is well worth the visit.
About the Department - W. G. Burroughs Geology Museum
Burroughs began his study of the tracks in 1930. These footprints were so remarkably human, that upon suggestion and discussion with Dr. Frank Thone (Science Service, an organization for the popularization of science associated with the Smithsonian) he gave the tracks the latin name Phenanthropus mirabilis, which meanslooks human; remarkable.
thieves have subsequently removed the prints and cut them out of the rock, but the original pictures are genuine: All one needed to do was date the rock of the bed where they exist, apparently that has been done, and critics simply dismiss the tracks because the rock dates are accurate. But here is the pictures:
And of course your only piece of evidence for this microevolution to explain the so-called footprints are still human is.... the so-called footprints themselves yes?
at the idea that you are correct. You are so hilariously wrong that I'm not sure why I'm writing any kind of reply. Though you managed to actually up the absurdity factor from what I was expecting to get.
