How Did These “130-Million-Year-Old” Dinosaur Footprints Survive?

Now, the fossil guide and paleontologist who found the footprint claims it’s 130 million years old. So they think for over 100 million years that footprint has been sitting, hidden beneath layers of shingle, waiting for a storm to expose it. And what happens next? Well, the man who discovered it says the footprint will wash away quickly because of erosion from the tides and the weather. In a matter of a few months, the footprint will have vanished.

Stop and think about that for a moment: the footprint was supposedly left behind by a dinosaur on the move over 100 million years ago—an unfathomable amount of time. And we are to believe that somehow that footprint was buried, survived all the supposed geological activity and the weathering of its rock encasement for over a hundred million years, and then happened to be exposed during our lifetime—only to disappear a few months later. That story strains credulity! And, in the evolutionary worldview, it’s happened over and over and over again!

In the biblical worldview, that footprint is only a few thousand years old, likely buried rapidly during Noah’s flood. It hasn’t been waiting, hidden below the surface, for untold eons. Rather, the rock it’s encased in has suffered weathering for a few thousand years, finally exposing it for us to see now. The rock will continue to erode, and the footprint will eventually disappear.

Geological processes haven’t been going on for millions of years, but rather for just a few thousand years. And that makes much better sense of the evidence!

Geological processes haven’t been going on for millions of years, but rather for just a few thousand years. And that makes much better sense of the evidence!

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