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22 Dec 2022, 11:42 am

Some trilobite fossils have had what looked like human footprints. Some creationists have claimed it was evidence the humans coexisted with the trilobites.

Even if they were actual human footprints, why would that mean that humans and trilobites coexisted? Couldn't humans have stepped on the trilobite fossils and created the footprints?



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22 Dec 2022, 4:56 pm

The claim of a human footprint on a trilobite is bogus.

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The print -- an alleged human footprint -- is very shallow and shows no sign of pressure deformation or foot movement at its margin.  However, on one side of the print, extending to the side of the supposed toe end is a rim or lip that is typical of similar concretions from the area, but which is incompatible in position and form to be a pressure ridge.  Also, of the two halves of rock, the side that has the heel indented shows raised relief at the toe end, and vice versa, whereas in a real print one should show impression or raised relief throughout each half.

According to the Natural History Museum of Utah, the fossil of trilobites was genuine, while the footprints were not.  It was "nothing more than a slab of Wheeler shale that had a fragment spalled off in the form of a footprint, which revealed a trilobite, Elrathia kingi."

The theory created by creationists has no physical evidence to prove it . . .

Source:  This "Hows & Whys" Article 



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23 Dec 2022, 3:53 am

^ Typical creationist drivel then.


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23 Dec 2022, 4:09 am

^ Indeed.



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23 Dec 2022, 7:07 am

Even if it was really a human footprint, couldn't a human have easily just stepped on one of the fossils? It would have no implication of humans and trilobites living at the same time.



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23 Dec 2022, 7:16 am

Sonic200 wrote:
Even if it was really a human footprint, couldn't a human have easily just stepped on one of the fossils? It would have no implication of humans and trilobites living at the same time.


Possibly, but it would likely be quite distinct being "set" in a different strata of a substantially different age.


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23 Dec 2022, 8:03 am

Problem one: trilobites lived in the sea. Humans live on land.

So if the two organisms were contemporaries it would be as if a human were walking on the sea bottom, stepped on a living crab killing it instantly, and then...a nearby volcano erupts to bury the spot under ash to preserve the evidence of the accidental crab-icide while the foot print is still there - in the squashed crab carcass.

For decades young-earth-creationists have been claiming that human footprints can be found atop and among dinosaur footprints. And atleast dinos were land dwelling. But upon exmaniation the 'human footprints' turn out to be dino toe prints (many dinos had toes similar in length and in width to adult human feet). Sometimes the toe prints have what turn out to be recently carved human type 'toes' on them as well. So they are even partially deliberately fabricated.



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23 Dec 2022, 7:28 pm

Creationism is not a science. For one, creationists only look for stuff to prove creationism, not stuff that goes against it. Scientists look at evidence both for and that goes against their theories.



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23 Dec 2022, 7:30 pm

Was Darwins father. He forgot to wipe his feet when he came back home.


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23 Dec 2022, 11:49 pm

Time perception is an illusion humans have to process and make sense of infinite cosmic data points all around us during the so-called “lifespan,” of our human bodied experience. All that ever was, is, or will be, exists simultaneously. So, of course some people stepped in the trilobites.


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