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Like I said, nothing but opinion. Conversely...

One of the most common observations is that the tracks have bulges or sand crescents on one side, thereby proving that they were made on inclined surfaces. (Lockley and Hunt 1995).

Tracks showing possible loping, running, and galloping gaits are found throughout the Coconino Sandstone. These can only have been made on dry land.

Tracks of small arthropods, attributable to spiders, centipedes, millipedes, and scorpions, occur abundantly in the Coconino Sandstone. (Schur [2000] has some excellent pictures.) Some of these trackways can only be made on completely dry sand.

Raindrop impressions also appear.

Not to mention the previous link I provided in detail the foot prints as well as how terrestrial sandstone and marine sandstone deposits are easily distinguishable.
 
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Raindrop impressions also appear.

Raindrops

The observable facts. These pock marks often occur in “rows,” unlike modern raindrop prints on dry sand. They penetrate up to 1 cm through the sand, or are formed by small round nodules that have fallen out of the rock (Figure 8). When modern raindrops hit dry sand, they rarely make nice “craters.” Instead, they typically make a mottled surface. There is uncertainty as to what made the dimples in the Coconino, but they don’t appear to be from raindrops. ref
 
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From actual experiments:
Several lessons were learned:
  • This can explain why fossil tracks are so prolific on the foreset and bottomset of crossbeds. The tracks in the coconino have not been positively identified but could be either lizards or salamanders. They are quite consistent in only traveling uphill. If the tracks are from salamanders, the same salamander could potentially be producing multiple trackways on the foresets of hundreds of feet, or perhaps even miles, of crossbeds. The salamander would “hang out” in the eddy at the bottom of the crossbed, and would simply walk up the crossbed when he was getting buried, float away and catch the eddy once more, returning to the bottom of the next crossbed.
  • Animals (such as lizards) which are swept away by the flowing waters would be sucked into the hydraulics and trapped by the eddy currents. Every year people die by being trapped in the hydraulics at the bottom of decorative dams and small waterfalls – the water is very powerful, even in small volume. In this case, the forming crossbeds make the escarpment that the hydraulics form at, thus trapping animals in them. The only way out was to go up the hill. Thus we see why the trackways in the coconino are almost always going uphill, and often show the creature being bouyed up to produce a trackway that goes from heavy foot impressions, to lighter, to claws only, to completely disappearing – often within only a few feet.
  • The preservation of tracks within the crossbeds is now easily explained: The water along the face of the foreset is virtually still. Simultaneously, there is a continuous dumping of sediments on top of any freshly made tracks, thus protecting them until lithification of the sediments.
 
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Once again since you didn't look at the first time: http://resweb.llu.edu/lbrand/pdf/fi...ts_and_their_paleoecological_implications.pdf

There are numerous trackways shown in this. You don't get trackways in a flood. Keep in mind that there are creation science claimed flood layers above and below these trackways. Are you saying the flood came, went, came back, and went again?
 
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Your link concluded with the:

The data presented in this paper suggest that fossil footprints of the type found in the Coconino Sandstone should not be used as evidence for eolian deposition of dry sand. If the Coconino Sandstone was indeed an eolian desert deposit, then several important features of its fossil footprints are as yet unexplained.
 
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The cococino sandstone is a transition eolian/marine sandstone. Why are you ignoring the fact that there are vertebrate trailways. Again, this is a layer between said flood layers. Your flood comes, goes, comes, and goes again. You can't have it that way.
 
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In some areas that would be true. The waters covered...receeded then covered again until finally covering the earth as the flood peeked.
You are making stuff up. You are also ignoring the fact that sedimentary deposit thickness far exceeds that of the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest combined.

btw, just checked the NOAA site again, it is still down. When I see its up again I post the link again.
 
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In some areas that would be true. The waters covered...receeded then covered again until finally covering the earth as the flood peeked.
Without leaving any telltales whatsoever, the whole world was covered with water and people all over the world didn't even notice, how incredible.
 
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Without leaving any telltales whatsoever, the whole world was covered with water and people all over the world didn't even notice, how incredible.
Oh, they notice alright!

They definitely noticed!

They just didn't live long enough to say it didn't happen.
 
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Most people are in the "we don't know" box.

By 'faith' I mean 'confidence', speaking of belief in evolution, not 'faith' as in religion. If you asked the average person who 'believes' in evolution even a simple biological evolution question I doubt if they could answer it.
 
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The first order of business is to construct a flood velocity/duration/and depth, model. Then apply it to present day topography and see what happens. I would be interested in how much the land would sink under the weight of the flood waters.
 
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I really don't intend to go back and forth with you on this....I've presented plenty of eidence that shows the sand was not windblown. If you disagree...so be it.
 
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It would surely leave a mess across the land, just as is seen today. Personally I believe the present landforms were created over millions years by many cataclysmic event including great floods. God's 'rainbow' promise suggests that Noah's flood wasn't the first.
 
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I'll be waiting for your reference.
 
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The first order of business is to construct a flood velocity/duration/and depth, model. Then apply it to present day topography and see what happens. I would be interested in how much the land would sink under the weight of the flood waters.

That might be something to try...but I think the pre-flood topography was nothing like it was today. For example there wasn't the flood deposited strata we see all over the world today.
 
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Most people are in the "we don't know" box.
By 'faith' I mean 'confidence', speaking of belief in evolution, not 'faith' as in religion.
Because they usually live in the real world and not in a fantasy dream world.
If you asked the average person who 'believes' in evolution even a simple biological evolution question I doubt if they could answer it.
That's because they are not living their lives by evolution, evolution either happened or it didn't happen either way they are alive now for a very very short period of time, what does it matter how they got here? curious? perhaps, obsessed by it? no, religious people are giving up their lives to a myth, who needs that? a better question might be "why would they do that?".
 
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Sometimes you have to give something up to gain something else of greater value. The yoke of Jesus is much lighter than the yoke the world wants to place on us. I only have room for one yoke on my neck. I choose the lightweight one.
 
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That might be something to try...but I think the pre-flood topography was nothing like it was today. For example there wasn't the flood deposited strata we see all over the world today.

The mountains were already there when the flood happened. That is evidence of older more violent geologic events. It is the presence of these landforms that would cause violent erosion and deposition in certain areas. Flatlands wouldn't show nearly a much erosion/deposition. I believe the flood came in, and receded, much like the tides, which leave little evidence over wide areas of relatively flat terrain.

The condition of the land should be considered as well. Except where areas of land were under cultivation the earth's surface would have been quite stable, covered with forests and mature pasture and grassland that would have stabilized the soil against the inwash of the flood. Of course after a year of being submerged much topsoil would be swept into the sea by the receding waters of the flood. This might account for the deserts.
 
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