WEBVTT 00:16.540 --> 00:17.100 Dinosaurs. 00:17.500 --> 00:20.100 The word means literally a terrible lizard. 00:20.600 --> 00:24.640 They fascinated the minds of children and adults alike since the discovery of their 00:24.640 --> 00:26.920 fossilized bones in the mid-1800s. 00:27.400 --> 00:32.840 Thousands of TV programs, movies, books, magazines, and radio shows have 00:32.840 --> 00:35.640 been dedicated to them and the time when they roamed the Earth. 00:35.980 --> 00:37.200 But when was that time? 00:37.780 --> 00:42.680 Starting with Charles Lyell in the late 1700s came the idea that the layers of 00:42.680 --> 00:46.780 rock and sediment we see around the world took millions of years to form. 00:47.220 --> 00:52.360 This ultimately led to the theory that the dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago and 00:52.360 --> 00:56.680 in some strange catastrophe were wiped from the face of the Earth never to be 00:56.680 --> 00:57.460 seen by man. 00:58.020 --> 01:03.480 Today the idea that dinosaurs and man were separated by 65 million years is accepted 01:03.480 --> 01:05.940 as fact with little question by most people. 01:06.280 --> 01:09.420 But is it true that man has never seen a living dinosaur? 01:09.420 --> 01:11.580 What does the fossil record say? 01:12.060 --> 01:17.020 Does the fossil record give us evidence of man and dinosaur living contemporaneously? 01:17.580 --> 01:21.640 And if there was such evidence what would be done with it and how would today's 01:21.640 --> 01:22.680 academia respond? 01:23.260 --> 01:27.500 Join us now as we journey on an adventure digging into the past, exploring the 01:27.500 --> 01:32.500 present, and uncovering the truth about dinosaurs, man, and their footprints in 01:32.500 --> 01:32.920 stone. 01:38.390 --> 01:42.710 Nestled in the rolling hills of north central Texas is a little town called Glen 01:42.710 --> 01:43.110 Rose. 01:43.590 --> 01:47.890 This small town with a population of around 2,300 has been a tourist attraction 01:47.890 --> 01:49.350 since the mid-20th century. 01:49.650 --> 01:53.710 The attraction that has drawn hundreds of thousands of people in this tiny town 01:53.710 --> 01:58.490 centers around the discovery of dinosaur fossil footprints along the banks of the 01:58.490 --> 01:59.210 Biloxi River. 01:59.510 --> 02:03.410 These dinosaur footprints, however, are not the only footprints to have been 02:03.410 --> 02:04.130 uncovered here. 02:04.490 --> 02:10.070 In 1908 a massive flash flood tore through the Biloxi River causing Volkswagen-sized 02:10.070 --> 02:11.830 boulders to be washed down the stream. 02:12.190 --> 02:17.350 The flood caused the river level to rise 27 feet and the erosion that resulted from 02:17.350 --> 02:20.950 the flood exposed new layers of rock in the bed and shores of the river. 02:21.570 --> 02:27.110 When this thing flash floods and it rips through here, now before they dammed it, 02:27.650 --> 02:36.770 this was the only river that was undammed in And for every mile it dropped seven 02:36.770 --> 02:37.150 feet. 02:38.210 --> 02:42.650 So back in 1908 when the when that flash flood came through here and ripped up all 02:42.650 --> 02:47.390 these layers in 1908 no one ever seen a dinosaur track. 02:47.790 --> 02:53.050 Ernest Adams and his brother George Adams are credited with finding the first 02:53.050 --> 02:54.110 theropod footprints. 02:55.210 --> 02:59.990 Robert Summers grew up in Glen Rose and was a close friend of Bull Adams as he was 02:59.990 --> 03:00.390 nicknamed. 03:02.170 --> 03:09.010 Well I was privileged to have lived right next door to a man we called Bull Adams, 03:09.610 --> 03:10.910 Ernest Talbert Adams. 03:11.230 --> 03:17.650 He just was about 100 steps away from my house and he was such an interesting 03:17.650 --> 03:22.650 fellow that he loved talking about Indians, dinosaurs, you just name it. 03:22.750 --> 03:28.470 Everything a kid likes to hear and was quite an expert in most of those fields. 03:29.190 --> 03:32.110 So what would be your relationship with him and the tracks? 03:32.590 --> 03:39.150 Well probably no relationship between me and him and the tracks except for the fact 03:39.150 --> 03:43.250 that he was the first one that I know about that knew what they were. 03:43.590 --> 03:47.550 His brother George had found them during the summer. 03:48.290 --> 03:52.130 He was just kicking around rocks up the creek here in town. 03:52.650 --> 03:57.650 Bull Adams was friends with another resident named Charlie Moss and in 1909 on 03:57.650 --> 04:01.810 one of their numerous swimming excursions in the Paluxy River, Bull showed Charlie 04:01.810 --> 04:03.390 Moss another set of tracks. 04:03.850 --> 04:06.290 He referred to them as giant man tracks. 04:06.710 --> 04:11.650 At least 15 local people testified to seeing the same set of tracks in that area 04:11.650 --> 04:14.470 which became known as the fourth crossing tracks. 04:15.150 --> 04:18.770 Moss said about the tracks, they were so plain that you could see where he was 04:18.770 --> 04:22.550 walking and then he got up on the balls of his feet and commenced to run. 04:23.410 --> 04:28.710 But it was Charlie Moss who discovered the first human footprints when he came back 04:28.710 --> 04:31.390 from the war was recuperating in his hometown. 04:32.110 --> 04:37.570 First human footprints among dinosaur footprints after a spring flood had ripped 04:37.570 --> 04:38.350 up the ledge. 04:39.730 --> 04:45.950 Well Bull Adams examined them and Bull Adams, the scholar, Oxford scholar, 04:46.710 --> 04:54.710 who grew up here as well, thought that actually since he was an anthropologist, 04:55.480 --> 05:00.870 he felt that the earliest evidence of man was at Glen Rose. 05:01.610 --> 05:06.090 Emmett McFall, another local resident of Glen Rose who owned property adjacent to 05:06.090 --> 05:11.790 the Paluxy River, claimed to have first seen the giant man tracks in 1923 when he 05:11.790 --> 05:12.990 was 28 years old. 05:13.250 --> 05:16.610 What do you remember about your grandfather Emmett and what he found and 05:16.610 --> 05:16.870 saw? 05:18.310 --> 05:23.950 Well of course partially I first remember in the 50s, in the early 50s when I was a 05:23.950 --> 05:27.230 young boy, but he bought this place in 1929. 05:28.530 --> 05:34.450 And just a year or two after he bought it, they had a big flood and it uncovered some 05:34.450 --> 05:36.610 of the tracks that are visible today. 05:36.910 --> 05:40.430 But Emmett McFall, when we went to his house, it was the most unusual house, 05:40.470 --> 05:44.650 I guess it's still over there, and he had some of the tracks around a 05:44.650 --> 05:44.970 tree. 05:46.890 --> 05:52.570 And he's the one that he and Cecil Dougherty, told me where they were. 05:53.070 --> 05:54.590 And I take field trips every year. 05:54.810 --> 05:59.350 When the stock market crashed in 1929, the Great Depression hit and many people 05:59.350 --> 06:02.190 did just about anything they could imagine to earn money. 06:02.910 --> 06:07.510 Several local residents, like Jim Riles and his wife, took up the side occupation 06:07.510 --> 06:12.270 of chiseling dinosaur tracks out of the riverbed and selling them to tourists. 06:13.590 --> 06:18.290 During the 30s, he had a man that worked for him that lived here on the place named 06:18.290 --> 06:19.050 Jim Riles. 06:19.990 --> 06:27.350 And Jim dug out what we call human tracks and dinosaur tracks, and they sold them to 06:27.350 --> 06:28.030 different people. 06:28.770 --> 06:33.450 To the residents of Glen Rose, Texas, the idea of man and dinosaurs 06:33.450 --> 06:35.450 living together was not so strange. 06:35.910 --> 06:40.850 Before the 1930s, the theory of evolution had not become widespread throughout the 06:40.850 --> 06:42.030 public education system. 06:42.430 --> 06:47.270 As a result, the residents in and around Glen Rose thought nothing of these giant 06:47.270 --> 06:48.930 human footprints in stone. 06:49.730 --> 06:53.710 The amazing thing about it is that I wasn't amazed at the time. 06:54.330 --> 06:58.230 And we were looking at these tracks and I walked over to the side and I said, 06:58.790 --> 07:02.690 well they must have been playing with the kids down here because here's some boy or 07:02.690 --> 07:04.410 man tracks right alongside them. 07:04.490 --> 07:05.910 But I didn't think anything about it. 07:06.610 --> 07:13.210 And until much, much later, found out the significance of man tracks with dinosaurs, 07:13.390 --> 07:15.290 I didn't have a problem with that. 07:16.790 --> 07:20.670 And until I started learning some of the things they were teaching in school, 07:21.230 --> 07:25.490 man came along a long time with dinosaurs, supposedly. 07:26.070 --> 07:31.430 A very clear and pristine human track was extracted by Riles and then sold to a Dr. 07:31.610 --> 07:33.270 Cook in Cleburne, Texas. 07:34.830 --> 07:37.850 Well, I guess that was in the 30s. 07:38.090 --> 07:39.390 It might have been in the 40s. 07:39.870 --> 07:45.790 He dug out a real good one that he sold to a, he was a doctor and MD over in Cleburne 07:45.790 --> 07:46.690 in Johnson County. 07:47.510 --> 07:48.610 And it was perfect. 07:49.210 --> 07:51.190 I never seen the actual track. 07:51.590 --> 07:52.890 My dad and my granddad did. 07:53.170 --> 07:54.690 I've seen pictures of it. 07:54.870 --> 07:58.330 But it had this perfect five toes, an arsenal foot. 07:59.210 --> 08:03.130 Heeled just like we have today if we was to step in mud. 08:03.690 --> 08:06.210 And then the mud would harden, you know, and fall down. 08:06.350 --> 08:06.930 It was horrible. 08:08.130 --> 08:12.210 Thousands of people claimed to have seen this track, which was on display on the 08:12.210 --> 08:13.630 wall of the Cook Medical Clinic. 08:14.430 --> 08:18.230 Unfortunately, upon Dr. Cook's death, it is believed by his son that the track 08:18.230 --> 08:20.770 was stolen and is still missing to this day. 08:21.830 --> 08:25.210 In the late 1930s, early fossil hunter Roland T. 08:25.350 --> 08:28.590 Byrd came to Glen Rose looking for fossils and dinosaur tracks. 08:28.970 --> 08:33.150 His initial interest in Glen Rose was sparked by a set of fossilized human 08:33.150 --> 08:36.910 footprints he saw on display in a small Arizona trading post. 08:37.630 --> 08:42.250 Byrd was quoted as saying this in Natural History magazine, quote, yes, they 08:42.250 --> 08:43.650 apparently are real enough. 08:44.130 --> 08:45.690 Real as the rock could be. 08:46.070 --> 08:48.910 The strangest things of their kind I have ever seen. 08:49.530 --> 08:53.450 On the surface of each was displayed the near likeness of a human foot, 08:53.690 --> 08:55.370 perfect in every detail. 08:55.790 --> 08:58.970 But each imprint was 15 inches long. 08:59.410 --> 08:59.970 Roland T. 09:00.030 --> 09:06.110 Byrd actually etched his name in paleontological history by coming to Glen 09:06.110 --> 09:11.890 Rose and directing the excavation of a series of dinosaur footprints in the 09:11.890 --> 09:15.490 Paluxy Basin near the area that is now the State Park. 09:16.210 --> 09:22.150 The May 1939 Natural History magazine article was the first and last time Byrd 09:22.150 --> 09:25.810 mentioned the human tracks in his writings of the Paluxy fossil tracks. 09:26.330 --> 09:29.370 A short time later, a geologist named Clifford L. 09:29.510 --> 09:33.570 Burdick was inspired by the article and decided to investigate the Glen Rose 09:33.570 --> 09:34.110 tracks. 09:34.950 --> 09:38.890 Burdick began his search with the human prints he saw in the article taken from 09:38.890 --> 09:44.890 the storefront window in 1945 and managed to locate them in a small museum in 09:44.890 --> 09:45.330 Arizona. 09:46.230 --> 09:51.310 Now later in 1950, he published a short article entitled, When Giants Roamed the 09:51.310 --> 09:57.310 Earth, Their Fossil Footprints Still Visible, in the Adventist periodical Signs 09:57.310 --> 09:58.010 of the Times. 09:59.010 --> 10:02.970 Burdick continued to research and document the tracks throughout his lifetime and 10:02.970 --> 10:07.970 multiple footprints, both dinosaur and human, were found and extracted from the 10:07.970 --> 10:08.390 riverbed. 10:08.910 --> 10:12.830 The primary reason they were extracted was because when exposed to the weather, 10:13.210 --> 10:17.350 they were subject to serious erosion due to the carbonic acid that built up on 10:17.350 --> 10:17.530 them. 10:17.970 --> 10:19.850 They would be preserved if extracted. 10:20.070 --> 10:22.550 You see, erosional factors are at play. 10:24.230 --> 10:31.290 Weatherizing the flow of the river and when the river gets dry, carbonic acid 10:31.290 --> 10:33.530 actually eats into the rock. 10:33.970 --> 10:38.670 This is what happens when over years of time, they get carbonic acid from the 10:38.670 --> 10:42.730 rainwater and it just destroys, you know, it just crumbles this rock and 10:42.730 --> 10:45.570 it really erodes these tracks and eats them pretty quickly. 10:45.810 --> 10:50.650 The legend of the giant man tracks continued to grow stronger when in 1964, 10:50.650 --> 10:56.170 Dr. Billy Caldwell, a geologist from Fort Worth, Texas, received a startling 10:56.170 --> 10:56.710 revelation. 10:57.170 --> 11:03.090 I went into the stone business and started handling building stone for building that 11:03.090 --> 11:04.350 we would bring as a geologist. 11:04.530 --> 11:06.370 I could bring it from all over the United States. 11:07.370 --> 11:15.250 And one day in 1964-65, one of my stone suppliers from Bill and Rose, his name was 11:15.250 --> 11:19.510 Bill Osborne, he came in with a pickup truck and the back of the truck said, 11:19.550 --> 11:20.510 I want to show you something. 11:21.110 --> 11:24.190 And the back of the truck was a piece of Glen Rose limestone. 11:24.830 --> 11:26.370 I could still see the fossils in it. 11:27.010 --> 11:32.690 It was about four foot by four foot and it had a perfect human print in it. 11:33.330 --> 11:37.530 And so, and I saw there was no differential weathering across and down in 11:37.530 --> 11:40.930 the track and up was the same weathering all the way across. 11:41.050 --> 11:42.750 There wasn't any indication of carbon. 11:43.570 --> 11:48.370 It was a perfect looking print and I said to Bill, where'd you get that? 11:48.430 --> 11:50.050 And he said, in the middle of the Plexi River. 11:50.570 --> 11:54.470 It's been kind of slow, so we got out there with a cold chisel and we spent a 11:54.470 --> 11:56.130 week cold chiseling this off. 11:56.210 --> 12:01.670 It was four to six inches thick and so it weighed hundreds of pounds. 12:02.670 --> 12:08.250 And then he told me one day, well I said, that is a really miraculous thing. 12:09.030 --> 12:12.490 And I asked him one day, what are you going to do with it? 12:12.510 --> 12:16.350 He said, I've had an offer, I think, of $800 from a man in Houston. 12:17.310 --> 12:22.130 So I said, well I sure would like to have a casting of that if you're going to sell 12:22.130 --> 12:22.330 it. 12:23.050 --> 12:24.910 And so he made me a concrete cast. 12:25.130 --> 12:29.430 And that original casting is here in the museum, the concrete one. 12:29.510 --> 12:30.110 It's pretty heavy. 12:30.210 --> 12:36.090 The real print that Bill Osborne sold was last seen at the 1965 New York World's 12:36.090 --> 12:36.330 Fair. 12:36.730 --> 12:41.390 It has never been seen since, possibly like the Cook Medical Clinic print and 12:41.390 --> 12:45.710 artifacts that countered the evolutionary belief system, it was bought up and hidden 12:45.710 --> 12:47.130 away or possibly destroyed. 12:47.650 --> 12:52.910 The last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where they're there, the storage area 12:52.910 --> 12:59.170 where they've hidden the Ark, that picture of we have good men working on it, 12:59.210 --> 12:59.870 you know, it's hidden. 13:01.210 --> 13:04.390 That's a pretty real depiction. 13:04.830 --> 13:07.250 I think they hide more things than they show. 13:07.850 --> 13:10.070 And we've run into that several times. 13:10.570 --> 13:15.710 In the late 1960s, the Reverend Stanley Taylor from Peoria, Illinois, heard about 13:15.710 --> 13:19.690 the human tracks through the writings of Clifford Burdick and went to Glen Rose to 13:19.690 --> 13:20.830 investigate for himself. 13:21.650 --> 13:25.910 He conducted numerous interviews with old-timers, shot 16 millimeter film, 13:26.070 --> 13:30.470 and even extended the existing human footprint trails by excavating the 13:30.470 --> 13:32.330 overburden along the bank of the river. 13:32.950 --> 13:37.850 Fresh new human and dinosaur tracks were found in the same rock layer next to each 13:37.850 --> 13:42.310 other, and one of the trails was named the Taylor Trail after its discoverer. 13:43.050 --> 13:48.150 A film called Footprints in Stone was made using a 16 millimeter camera and released 13:48.150 --> 13:49.110 in 1972. 13:49.950 --> 13:53.230 This film showed numerous people putting their feet on the tracks with a 13:53.230 --> 13:54.050 near-perfect fit. 13:54.450 --> 13:58.430 For at least a decade, this film was shown to numerous church and school groups 13:58.430 --> 13:59.210 across the country. 13:59.910 --> 14:04.970 I became acquainted with the footprints down here in 1972. 14:05.730 --> 14:12.950 The film had just been made, Footprints in Stone, and in fact it wasn't fully edited, 14:13.170 --> 14:16.350 put together, but was shown in raw form. 14:17.710 --> 14:21.830 And so I got very excited about that, and I wanted to see it myself. 14:21.830 --> 14:26.330 And there were a couple of young teenagers that were skeptics. 14:27.590 --> 14:29.330 Their parents attended where I preached. 14:30.530 --> 14:32.870 I got them to go with me on this trip. 14:32.970 --> 14:33.850 We rented a motorhome. 14:34.730 --> 14:38.710 I got to see the footprints, and they got to walk in them, and stick their feet in 14:38.710 --> 14:40.770 them, and feel that they fit. 14:42.430 --> 14:46.270 And they became devout Christians as a result of that. 14:47.030 --> 14:53.070 I saw the effect, and I believe this was very good evidence. 14:53.650 --> 14:58.570 By late 1989, erosion had taken a considerable toll on the Taylor Trail, 14:58.870 --> 15:03.230 but at least three of the tracks within the trail still displayed clear human 15:03.230 --> 15:04.170 footprint features. 15:04.690 --> 15:08.770 In 1989, these three tracks were maliciously destroyed. 15:09.390 --> 15:13.850 Someone had entered the riverbed and used a metal bar to demolish the remnants of 15:13.850 --> 15:15.930 the clearest tracks within the Taylor Trail. 15:16.690 --> 15:18.950 Another track researcher was Dr. Cecil N. 15:19.090 --> 15:23.310 Doherty, a chiropractor that moved to Glen Rose specifically because of the tracks. 15:23.730 --> 15:27.610 He spent 17 years investigating them and photographing them. 15:27.910 --> 15:32.730 In 1971, he came out with a book called Valley of the Giants, which gave 15:32.730 --> 15:36.890 descriptions, locations, and pictures of the human footprints. 15:38.110 --> 15:41.830 A friend of mine, Jan Mercer, told me about Dr. Cecil N. 15:41.830 --> 15:46.290 Doherty, who had found some human tracks in place inside here. 15:47.990 --> 15:52.590 So we contacted him, and we came down here, and he took us to the tracks. 15:53.090 --> 15:53.990 They were perfect. 15:54.570 --> 15:59.830 They were over in this area, and we met Paul in the park here. 16:00.510 --> 16:02.850 They were so perfect, it was unbelievable. 16:02.990 --> 16:05.950 Sometime I'd bring them down, the water would be real deep, and we'd just have to 16:05.950 --> 16:06.630 kind of fill them. 16:07.410 --> 16:09.850 Other times, the water was real low, and we could see them. 16:10.790 --> 16:13.650 And there was two or three perfect tracks there. 16:13.970 --> 16:19.490 Carl Ball came to Glen Rose in 1981 to excavate some of the dinosaur tracks. 16:20.030 --> 16:24.530 Dr. Ball was a Christian but believed in evolutionary theory and cleaved to the 16:24.530 --> 16:31.210 idea that man and dinosaur were separated by 65 million years of time, and so was 16:31.210 --> 16:35.450 not expecting to discover the shocking revelation that changed his paradigm. 16:35.810 --> 16:39.950 So I finally came to Glen Rose. 16:42.550 --> 16:45.050 I was completing the master's in archaeology. 16:45.750 --> 16:51.950 I had referred to the possibility that there were human footprints among dinosaur 16:51.950 --> 16:52.330 footprints. 16:52.490 --> 16:56.370 So my mentor, Dr. Clifford Wilson, said, if you're going to refer to that, 16:57.290 --> 17:00.030 I'm assigning you an actual excavation. 17:00.150 --> 17:02.830 You'll need to go to Glen Rose and perform an actual excavation. 17:03.650 --> 17:05.330 So I got Father James and did. 17:06.310 --> 17:13.330 At that point, I still personally held to the long ages. 17:14.890 --> 17:22.610 I accommodated the dinosaurs in the Mesozoic era of the past, and I felt that 17:22.610 --> 17:25.430 there was some substantiation to the geologic column. 17:26.670 --> 17:34.030 Then I came to Glen Rose, performed the excavation, and to my absolute amazement, 17:34.370 --> 17:41.270 after excavating 19 dinosaur footprints, at the end of that slab as I excavated 17:41.270 --> 17:46.470 through the clay, there was not only a dinosaur footprint, but 17 and a half 17:46.470 --> 17:50.930 inches from the dinosaur footprint, there was a 16 inch human footprint. 17:52.010 --> 17:56.630 Now that blew my mind because my paradigm didn't accept that. 17:56.950 --> 18:01.830 In 1984, Dr. Baugh obtained another print from the Paluxy through Clifford Burdick, 18:01.950 --> 18:03.770 a geologist from Tucson, Arizona. 18:04.110 --> 18:14.030 Clifford Burdick, a geologist, actually bought two prints way back in 18:14.030 --> 18:19.350 probably the 1950s in Arizona. 18:19.870 --> 18:28.350 He sent one to an Adventist college in the east, they sectioned it, and the 18:28.350 --> 18:30.210 laminations were not all that clear. 18:30.310 --> 18:31.150 He kept the other. 18:31.910 --> 18:36.390 I was able to get the other from him in the 1980s. 18:36.430 --> 18:37.670 It was part of his treasure. 18:37.670 --> 18:42.050 I was able to get it from him, to purchase it. 18:42.110 --> 18:43.090 That came from Paluxy? 18:43.310 --> 18:44.390 It came from the Paluxy. 18:44.670 --> 18:52.030 It came from the area on 67, where the the bridge crosses 67. 18:53.330 --> 18:56.050 And it was excavated there. 18:56.110 --> 18:56.410 Okay. 18:56.670 --> 18:59.050 As they were building the bridge, cutting for the bridge. 18:59.210 --> 19:03.510 The most recent human footprint finding from the Paluxy River was in 2002, 19:03.510 --> 19:08.110 a resident of Stephenville, Texas and amateur fossil hunter, Albus Delk, 19:08.370 --> 19:12.410 was walking along the tributary of the Paluxy River when he came across a fairly 19:12.410 --> 19:15.950 large fossilized rock with a dinosaur footprint in it. 19:16.230 --> 19:20.590 The rock was lodged between several other rocks and after about 45 minutes of work, 19:20.830 --> 19:22.290 he was able to get the slab loose. 19:22.590 --> 19:26.150 He took it home and stored it with the rest of his other fossil findings that he 19:26.150 --> 19:27.590 had accumulated through the years. 19:28.010 --> 19:33.470 The rock remained uncleaned and stored in his collection until 2008, when he decided 19:33.470 --> 19:34.790 to sell some of his fossils. 19:35.350 --> 19:39.750 In preparation for selling the rock fossils, he took a soft brush and started 19:39.750 --> 19:44.370 to clean the dust and dirt off the slab, when it revealed an amazing discovery. 19:44.970 --> 19:50.250 Within the tip of the dinosaur footprint was the outline and shape of a human foot. 19:50.530 --> 19:56.170 The rock clearly displayed all five toes, instep and heel partially penetrated by a 19:56.170 --> 19:58.250 three-toed theropod type of dinosaur. 19:58.250 --> 20:04.610 Here we have a human footprint 11 and a half inches in length, same length as the 20:04.610 --> 20:04.930 O.W. 20:05.050 --> 20:05.550 Willett print. 20:06.350 --> 20:08.750 This was discovered by Alvis Delk. 20:09.610 --> 20:11.590 Human footprint stepping first. 20:12.590 --> 20:18.630 Stepping on and intruding into the human footprint is an Acrocanthosaurus dinosaur 20:18.630 --> 20:19.090 footprint. 20:19.890 --> 20:23.790 Notice some of the mud was consolidated in the human footprint and the dinosaur 20:23.790 --> 20:26.370 actually pushed it up into the human footprint. 20:26.750 --> 20:32.650 As he moved forward, spiral CAT scan technology has been applied in two 20:32.650 --> 20:37.410 certified laboratories and it's found that under the human track, around it, 20:37.970 --> 20:42.990 under and around the dinosaur track, we have the same compression density. 20:43.710 --> 20:44.910 So it is genuine. 20:45.290 --> 20:50.330 Another significant footprint that Dr. Ball obtained in 2010 was the O.W. 20:50.530 --> 20:54.510 Willett print, which was carved out of a limestone wedge along the banks of the 20:54.510 --> 20:59.430 Paluxy River in the 1950s at a location along the river where the current Dinosaur 20:59.430 --> 21:00.950 Valley State Park is located. 21:01.490 --> 21:05.930 Willett's family was in possession of the print for 60 years and finally decided to 21:05.930 --> 21:07.390 sell it to Dr. Ball's museum. 21:07.950 --> 21:12.050 Retired park rangers have told people that they used to have yellow paint sprayed 21:12.050 --> 21:15.630 around the human tracks and would point them out to the public when they came to 21:15.630 --> 21:15.870 visit. 21:16.250 --> 21:20.790 But after evolution became popular in the 1970s, they were forced to tell the public 21:20.790 --> 21:23.010 that there were no human tracks in the park. 21:23.630 --> 21:27.890 When we investigated Dinosaur Valley State Park, we were told by the park interpreter 21:27.890 --> 21:30.030 that there were no human tracks in the park. 21:30.310 --> 21:32.610 You're not going to ask me anything about man tracks? 21:32.810 --> 21:36.350 If you, if you do not want us to I do not want to talk about man tracks. 21:36.990 --> 21:39.190 Then we will not, then we won't ask you this question. 21:39.230 --> 21:41.010 Okay, because there's none in the park. 21:41.190 --> 21:45.170 Dinosaur Valley State Park was going to have a grand opening on that weekend and 21:45.170 --> 21:48.770 that there was going to be, you know, dinosaur footprints and, you know, 21:48.770 --> 21:49.570 that kind of stuff. 21:49.810 --> 21:52.690 And so we decided let's go check it out. 21:52.950 --> 21:53.730 So we go there. 21:54.450 --> 22:00.650 There were signs that were pointing to the different tracks and the different 22:00.650 --> 22:02.730 dinosaur tracks and to the human footprints. 22:03.610 --> 22:08.830 And the dinosaur tracks on the signs, the signs were yellow with black letters 22:08.830 --> 22:15.670 and they said the names of the dinosaurs that made those tracks. 22:17.190 --> 22:21.250 On the human footprints, on the big ones, there was a sign that was pointing to one 22:21.250 --> 22:24.630 of the big ones and it said caveman tracks. 22:26.230 --> 22:32.290 So I got down and because that really caught my attention and I started, 22:32.530 --> 22:36.430 I put my hand and started feeling that that human track, that big one. 22:37.470 --> 22:41.770 And I never ever heard of such a thing. 22:42.630 --> 22:46.730 And I saw the sign, caveman tracks, and that got my attention. 22:47.750 --> 22:49.550 So time went on, a few years. 22:50.490 --> 22:53.430 One day I was reading in Genesis. 22:55.250 --> 22:59.850 And I read, I think it's in Genesis chapter 6, where the Bible says that right 22:59.850 --> 23:03.070 before the flood that there was giants on earth. 23:03.890 --> 23:11.550 And right when I read that, it was like a slide, like a picture in my head. 23:11.990 --> 23:16.790 I remember that footprint that I had seen about 12 years before that. 23:18.830 --> 23:20.430 There at Dinosaur Valley State Park. 23:22.050 --> 23:27.930 And I told my wife, I got up and I told my wife, I uh, it says here that there used 23:27.930 --> 23:29.310 to be giants on the earth. 23:29.870 --> 23:30.810 We got to go in the car. 23:31.490 --> 23:32.170 We got to go. 23:32.230 --> 23:33.070 I got to show you these. 23:33.550 --> 23:36.550 So we made a beeline for the state park. 23:38.930 --> 23:42.150 12 years have passed since the time that I've been there with my buddies. 23:46.970 --> 23:51.310 And we went, my wife and I, and went down there and we looked and looked and looked. 23:51.310 --> 23:53.910 Couldn't find any human footprints anywhere. 23:54.850 --> 23:59.210 So go back into the office or there, you know, the area where, you know, 23:59.270 --> 24:03.570 the rangers and all the people that work for the park were sitting behind their 24:03.570 --> 24:04.230 desks and stuff. 24:04.270 --> 24:06.310 And I'll go up to the counter. 24:07.510 --> 24:11.490 I said, what happened to those caveman tracks that y'all used to have out here? 24:12.550 --> 24:14.730 And they all looked at me and they didn't say anything. 24:14.910 --> 24:20.490 I said, what happened to the human footprints and the caveman tracks that you 24:20.490 --> 24:21.470 used to have here? 24:22.570 --> 24:25.310 And someone spoke up and said, we never had anything like that out here. 24:26.170 --> 24:27.530 I said, oh yes, you did. 24:27.630 --> 24:28.810 Back in 1972. 24:29.630 --> 24:31.310 I saw them and my buddies saw them. 24:32.270 --> 24:35.010 No, we've never had anything like that. 24:36.550 --> 24:41.090 So I left and we were in the parking lot, but there was an elderly gentleman that 24:41.090 --> 24:48.470 was in the inside and I didn't notice him, but he followed me outside and he stopped 24:48.470 --> 24:49.270 me in the parking lot. 24:50.570 --> 24:52.330 And he said, he said, pardon me, sir. 24:52.390 --> 24:52.910 And I said, yes. 24:53.690 --> 24:56.250 He said, I heard what you were saying inside. 24:56.410 --> 24:59.350 I heard what you were, what you were asking those people in there. 24:59.510 --> 25:01.850 He pointed to the, it kind of wooded around in there. 25:02.530 --> 25:03.830 It's hilly and wooded. 25:04.290 --> 25:08.910 He pointed through the woods and there was a building, small building, like a shed. 25:10.030 --> 25:18.130 And he said, he said, those signs that you said you read, caveman tracks and the 25:18.130 --> 25:20.910 dinosaur names that were on those signs. 25:21.090 --> 25:24.030 He said, they're in that shed there in the woods, that shed, you see it? 25:24.090 --> 25:24.610 I said, yes, I see it. 25:25.450 --> 25:26.850 He said, those signs are in that shed. 25:27.770 --> 25:29.110 And I asked him, how do you know? 25:29.210 --> 25:30.130 He said, I put them there. 25:30.130 --> 25:32.570 And I said, you put them there? 25:32.750 --> 25:33.630 He said, yes, I put them there. 25:33.690 --> 25:38.870 He said, I used to work here back during that time that you're talking about. 25:39.330 --> 25:41.950 And I asked him, I said, well, what happened? 25:43.130 --> 25:49.510 And he said, well, they took the signs out and they took the footprints, they took 25:49.510 --> 25:49.830 them out. 25:51.350 --> 25:52.890 And I said, well, then they were here. 25:53.010 --> 25:53.870 He said, oh yeah, they were here. 25:54.250 --> 25:56.950 But the human tracks aren't just a local phenomenon. 25:57.450 --> 25:59.010 This is a worldwide occurrence. 25:59.010 --> 26:03.710 There are fossil footprints in almost every continent of the world. 26:04.390 --> 26:06.570 We find them in Asia. 26:07.070 --> 26:08.970 We find them in Africa, South Africa. 26:09.550 --> 26:15.250 We find them in France, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Central America, 26:16.310 --> 26:16.930 Nicaragua. 26:18.610 --> 26:21.610 Some of the footprints here locally are in Glen Rose. 26:21.950 --> 26:26.970 We also find them in Tennessee and in Kentucky and Oklahoma and Utah and Arizona 26:26.970 --> 26:28.650 and Colorado. 26:30.270 --> 26:33.090 And so this isn't really isolated to Glen Rose. 26:33.750 --> 26:39.650 These fossil footprints can be found on a global scale in many different parts of 26:39.650 --> 26:40.030 the world. 26:40.770 --> 26:46.350 There are two more sites in Texas, down near Sonora, Texas. 26:47.510 --> 26:51.610 There's a site where there are five in a right left pattern that were discovered in 26:51.610 --> 26:52.170 the thirties. 26:52.910 --> 26:57.130 E&M came down and studied them and documented them and photographed them. 26:57.310 --> 26:58.710 I have their photographs. 26:59.290 --> 27:03.490 They're much more spectacular, but they're still playing. 27:04.070 --> 27:07.310 Two or three of them are just spectacular. 27:08.470 --> 27:16.950 In Cretaceous limestone, that's down at the southern extreme of the state. 27:17.050 --> 27:26.050 On the northern extreme, up in the panhandle, you have another track that was 27:26.050 --> 27:31.810 there displayed in the courthouse of Stinnett, Texas. 27:33.190 --> 27:36.070 It was there on display for years. 27:36.950 --> 27:41.210 It caused so much controversy that the fellow that owned it actually removed it, 27:41.370 --> 27:42.910 and it's in his home now. 27:44.010 --> 27:52.150 There were actually initially nine tracks, and in 52, they were in the newspaper. 27:52.850 --> 27:55.650 We have the newspaper articles of these nine tracks. 27:55.810 --> 27:57.170 Well, one of them has survived. 27:57.350 --> 27:59.530 We've learned the location of at least one other. 28:00.450 --> 28:04.310 Another amazing track that was found in New Mexico can be seen here. 28:04.630 --> 28:06.850 We had a mining permit at the time. 28:06.950 --> 28:12.890 We had a permit to be there and a permit to excavate, but you have to pass through 28:12.890 --> 28:16.610 about five different ranches in order to get to the spot. 28:18.170 --> 28:21.410 And the fellow that owned the ranch adjacent to the property... 28:22.330 --> 28:24.950 I mean, this was BLM property, Bureau of Land Management. 28:25.030 --> 28:26.730 It was not his, but he thought it was his. 28:28.090 --> 28:31.470 And we had the paper, the permit. 28:31.950 --> 28:38.110 He had a shotgun, and the shotgun trumps the paper every time we had to leave. 28:38.890 --> 28:45.070 But we did get it well documented with cast and photographs, stereo photographs. 28:45.870 --> 28:47.210 We did not get the track. 28:48.130 --> 28:52.170 In 1968, amateur fossil collector William J. 28:52.490 --> 28:54.790 Meister discovered the fossil of a human footprint. 28:55.350 --> 28:59.070 When Meister first found the print, he took it to a geologist to examine it. 28:59.330 --> 29:02.890 The geologist offered him a quarter of a million dollars for the print. 29:03.410 --> 29:06.070 Meister asked, What are you going to do with it if I sell it to you? 29:06.330 --> 29:09.170 The geologist responded, I'm going to destroy it. 29:09.490 --> 29:12.670 It destroys my entire life's work as a geologist. 29:13.050 --> 29:15.770 They say a picture is worth a thousand words. 29:16.190 --> 29:20.030 That statement has never been more applicable than in the human footprint 29:20.030 --> 29:20.790 controversy. 29:21.510 --> 29:25.170 Dr. Patton, in his lifetime of expeditions, has experienced numerous 29:25.170 --> 29:30.190 attempts to block, stall, and hinder the finding of the truth regarding man and 29:30.190 --> 29:32.110 dinosaur living contemporaneously. 29:32.730 --> 29:37.350 When you're messing both with their science and their religion, naturalistic 29:37.350 --> 29:44.050 religion, you really raise the ire and the viciousness is more than is imaginable. 29:47.690 --> 29:50.470 This... you kind of get used to it. 29:50.570 --> 29:54.950 You try to work with it and avoid it, but it doesn't surprise and it doesn't 29:54.950 --> 29:55.250 deter. 29:55.710 --> 30:01.070 This evidence of fossil footprints in stone puts to rest the idea that man and 30:01.070 --> 30:06.650 dinosaurs were separated by 65 million years and supports the biblical model of 30:06.650 --> 30:07.110 creation. 30:07.670 --> 30:09.690 Evolution is a bankrupt theory. 30:10.250 --> 30:14.310 However, its defenders, which include humanistic academia and the establishment 30:14.310 --> 30:17.110 media, are prepared to defend it to the bitter end. 30:17.750 --> 30:22.610 Over the past 200 years, the battle to remove God from the hearts and minds of 30:22.610 --> 30:27.510 men has raged on, and many proponents of evolution have used this theory in an 30:27.510 --> 30:30.310 attempt to undermine the authority of the Word of God. 30:30.750 --> 30:34.990 Any evidence in support of a biblical model of creation, no matter how 30:34.990 --> 30:39.690 convincing, will continue to be opposed in support of evolution because of the 30:39.690 --> 30:42.390 implications of having the Bible shown to be correct. 30:42.950 --> 30:47.290 But what are the implications of the foundational battle of creation versus 30:47.290 --> 30:47.850 evolution? 30:48.370 --> 30:54.930 Either we arrived by a naturalistic evolutionary progression, or we arrived by 30:54.930 --> 30:55.810 special creation. 30:56.810 --> 31:02.390 In every major university around the world, in the philosophy department, 31:03.990 --> 31:09.310 the four great questions of life are taught, or they're asked. 31:09.950 --> 31:10.990 They're never answered. 31:11.510 --> 31:14.230 Those four great questions are, who am I? 31:15.210 --> 31:16.450 Where did I come from? 31:17.250 --> 31:19.610 What's my purpose here, and where am I going? 31:20.710 --> 31:21.530 Who am I? 31:21.590 --> 31:23.010 If evolution is true, nobody. 31:23.830 --> 31:24.770 Where did I come from? 31:25.270 --> 31:26.090 I came from a rock. 31:26.710 --> 31:27.590 What's my purpose? 31:27.790 --> 31:29.270 I'm fertilizer for the future. 31:29.870 --> 31:30.570 Where am I going? 31:30.910 --> 31:31.370 Nowhere. 31:32.030 --> 31:34.050 If evolution is true, this is it. 31:35.490 --> 31:43.110 But some creationists hold to evolution and say, well, this is how God did it. 31:45.130 --> 31:51.850 If God did it that way, but said he did it otherwise, you can't trust him. 31:52.310 --> 31:55.430 You're not going anywhere if evolution is true. 31:56.430 --> 32:02.990 And leading evolutionists have admitted, laughingly, some of you Christians hold to 32:02.990 --> 32:07.190 evolution, and you think you're being academic. 32:08.150 --> 32:09.150 They're incompatible. 32:09.490 --> 32:11.450 It's one way or the other, and they laugh. 32:12.190 --> 32:14.090 So, the other alternative. 32:16.410 --> 32:18.170 What if creation is true? 32:19.310 --> 32:21.610 If creation is true, who am I? 32:22.890 --> 32:26.990 I am an individual originally made in the image of God. 32:27.710 --> 32:33.590 Even though I'm really scarred, and I've not lived up to that image as I 32:33.590 --> 32:36.910 should have, originally I was made in the image of God. 32:37.250 --> 32:38.570 If creation is true, who am I? 32:38.610 --> 32:39.210 That's who I am. 32:40.110 --> 32:41.010 Where did I come from? 32:41.770 --> 32:48.590 I came from his direct hand of special creation through Adam and Eve. 32:49.850 --> 32:51.150 What's my purpose here? 32:52.410 --> 32:55.150 My purpose is, first of all, to know him. 32:56.150 --> 32:57.230 Privileged to know him. 32:57.950 --> 32:59.550 And then to represent him. 33:00.430 --> 33:01.750 To be his ambassador. 33:02.830 --> 33:04.170 To speak for him. 33:05.910 --> 33:09.750 And the fourth question, where am I going after this is over? 33:10.010 --> 33:14.330 I'm going home to be with him for all eternity. 33:14.330 --> 33:17.610 For God inhabits eternity.