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14. Evidence for Humans Living at Same Time as Ancient Fossils.

It is known that the trilobite existed between 280 million and 320 million
years ago. A local rock hound in Antelope Springs named William J. Meister
was hunting for trilobites along a hillside near Antelope Springs, Utah in
1968 when he broke open a slab and discovered something curious: an
oblong shape that he took for a human sandal print. This was quite
shocking since the rock at this locality is identified as the middle Cambrian
Wheeler Formation--over 500 million years old. The supposed sandal print
measured approximately 10 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches, and occurred on
both sides of the slab (with opposite relief). The specimen included what
Meister took as a heel demarcation, as well as several small trilobites. Dr. Melvin. A. Cook, a renowned
chemist at the University of Utah has confirmed the authenticity of the sandal print, “Quite obviously
this footprint could not be the result of any carving, since, until found by Meister, it was covered by the
strata above.”

Conclusion:
The billions of fossils found to date speak of rapid burial by water, then rapid entombment under
millions of tons of sand and stone. Massive graveyards of plants and animals from all parts of the world
are buried together. Remember, presuppositions determines prospective. From a creationist’s
viewpoint, the fossil evidence backs the predictions that a world-wide flood would have caused what we
see in the sedimentary rocks.

12.4 Let’s Practice…

1. What is the Cambrian Explosion?

2. Why does the Cambrian Explosion demonstrate Creation?

3. Do you think that a sufficient number of fossils have been discovered to validate or invalidate
evolutionary ideas?

4. How does finding an open clam fossil on the top of Mt. Everest validate the Biblical Flood?

5. How does finding red blood cells in a T Rex fossil demonstrate that the T Rex lived a short time ago?

6. What tremendous problems are found in the geological column proposed by evolutionists?

7. How does finding a trilobite in a human shoe print call to question evolutionary time scales?

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