Dinosaurs.
The word means literally a terrible lizard.
They fascinated the minds of children and adults alike since the discovery of their
fossilized bones in the mid-1800s.
Thousands of TV programs, movies, books, magazines, and radio shows have
been dedicated to them and the time when they roamed the Earth.
But when was that time?
Starting with Charles Lyell in the late 1700s came the idea that the layers of
rock and sediment we see around the world took millions of years to form.
This ultimately led to the theory that the dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago and
in some strange catastrophe were wiped from the face of the Earth never to be
seen by man.
Today the idea that dinosaurs and man were separated by 65 million years is accepted
as fact with little question by most people.
But is it true that man has never seen a living dinosaur?
What does the fossil record say?
Does the fossil record give us evidence of man and dinosaur living contemporaneously?
And if there was such evidence what would be done with it and how would today's
academia respond?
Join us now as we journey on an adventure digging into the past, exploring the
present, and uncovering the truth about dinosaurs, man, and their footprints in
stone.
Nestled in the rolling hills of north central Texas is a little town called Glen
Rose.
This small town with a population of around 2,300 has been a tourist attraction
since the mid-20th century.
The attraction that has drawn hundreds of thousands of people in this tiny town
centers around the discovery of dinosaur fossil footprints along the banks of the
Biloxi River.
These dinosaur footprints, however, are not the only footprints to have been
uncovered here.
In 1908 a massive flash flood tore through the Biloxi River causing Volkswagen-sized
boulders to be washed down the stream.
The flood caused the river level to rise 27 feet and the erosion that resulted from
the flood exposed new layers of rock in the bed and shores of the river.
When this thing flash floods and it rips through here, now before they dammed it,
this was the only river that was undammed in And for every mile it dropped seven
feet.
So back in 1908 when the when that flash flood came through here and ripped up all
these layers in 1908 no one ever seen a dinosaur track.
Ernest Adams and his brother George Adams are credited with finding the first
theropod footprints.
Robert Summers grew up in Glen Rose and was a close friend of Bull Adams as he was
nicknamed.
Well I was privileged to have lived right next door to a man we called Bull Adams,
Ernest Talbert Adams.
He just was about 100 steps away from my house and he was such an interesting
fellow that he loved talking about Indians, dinosaurs, you just name it.
Everything a kid likes to hear and was quite an expert in most of those fields.
So what would be your relationship with him and the tracks?
Well probably no relationship between me and him and the tracks except for the fact
that he was the first one that I know about that knew what they were.
His brother George had found them during the summer.
He was just kicking around rocks up the creek here in town.
Bull Adams was friends with another resident named Charlie Moss and in 1909 on
one of their numerous swimming excursions in the Paluxy River, Bull showed Charlie
Moss another set of tracks.
He referred to them as giant man tracks.
At least 15 local people testified to seeing the same set of tracks in that area
which became known as the fourth crossing tracks.
Moss said about the tracks, they were so plain that you could see where he was
walking and then he got up on the balls of his feet and commenced to run.
But it was Charlie Moss who discovered the first human footprints when he came back
from the war was recuperating in his hometown.
First human footprints among dinosaur footprints after a spring flood had ripped
up the ledge.
Well Bull Adams examined them and Bull Adams, the scholar, Oxford scholar,
who grew up here as well, thought that actually since he was an anthropologist,
he felt that the earliest evidence of man was at Glen Rose.
Emmett McFall, another local resident of Glen Rose who owned property adjacent to
the Paluxy River, claimed to have first seen the giant man tracks in 1923 when he
was 28 years old.
What do you remember about your grandfather Emmett and what he found and
saw?
Well of course partially I first remember in the 50s, in the early 50s when I was a
young boy, but he bought this place in 1929.
And just a year or two after he bought it, they had a big flood and it uncovered some
of the tracks that are visible today.
But Emmett McFall, when we went to his house, it was the most unusual house,
I guess it's still over there, and he had some of the tracks around a
tree.
And he's the one that he and Cecil Dougherty, told me where they were.
And I take field trips every year.
When the stock market crashed in 1929, the Great Depression hit and many people
did just about anything they could imagine to earn money.
Several local residents, like Jim Riles and his wife, took up the side occupation
of chiseling dinosaur tracks out of the riverbed and selling them to tourists.
During the 30s, he had a man that worked for him that lived here on the place named
Jim Riles.
And Jim dug out what we call human tracks and dinosaur tracks, and they sold them to
different people.
To the residents of Glen Rose, Texas, the idea of man and dinosaurs
living together was not so strange.
Before the 1930s, the theory of evolution had not become widespread throughout the
public education system.
As a result, the residents in and around Glen Rose thought nothing of these giant
human footprints in stone.
The amazing thing about it is that I wasn't amazed at the time.
And we were looking at these tracks and I walked over to the side and I said,
well they must have been playing with the kids down here because here's some boy or
man tracks right alongside them.
But I didn't think anything about it.
And until much, much later, found out the significance of man tracks with dinosaurs,
I didn't have a problem with that.
And until I started learning some of the things they were teaching in school,
man came along a long time with dinosaurs, supposedly.
A very clear and pristine human track was extracted by Riles and then sold to a Dr.
Cook in Cleburne, Texas.
Well, I guess that was in the 30s.
It might have been in the 40s.
He dug out a real good one that he sold to a, he was a doctor and MD over in Cleburne
in Johnson County.
And it was perfect.
I never seen the actual track.
My dad and my granddad did.
I've seen pictures of it.
But it had this perfect five toes, an arsenal foot.
Heeled just like we have today if we was to step in mud.
And then the mud would harden, you know, and fall down.
It was horrible.
Thousands of people claimed to have seen this track, which was on display on the
wall of the Cook Medical Clinic.
Unfortunately, upon Dr. Cook's death, it is believed by his son that the track
was stolen and is still missing to this day.
In the late 1930s, early fossil hunter Roland T.
Byrd came to Glen Rose looking for fossils and dinosaur tracks.
His initial interest in Glen Rose was sparked by a set of fossilized human
footprints he saw on display in a small Arizona trading post.
Byrd was quoted as saying this in Natural History magazine, quote, yes, they
apparently are real enough.
Real as the rock could be.
The strangest things of their kind I have ever seen.
On the surface of each was displayed the near likeness of a human foot,
perfect in every detail.
But each imprint was 15 inches long.
Roland T.
Byrd actually etched his name in paleontological history by coming to Glen
Rose and directing the excavation of a series of dinosaur footprints in the
Paluxy Basin near the area that is now the State Park.
The May 1939 Natural History magazine article was the first and last time Byrd
mentioned the human tracks in his writings of the Paluxy fossil tracks.
A short time later, a geologist named Clifford L.
Burdick was inspired by the article and decided to investigate the Glen Rose
tracks.
Burdick began his search with the human prints he saw in the article taken from
the storefront window in 1945 and managed to locate them in a small museum in
Arizona.
Now later in 1950, he published a short article entitled, When Giants Roamed the
Earth, Their Fossil Footprints Still Visible, in the Adventist periodical Signs
of the Times.
Burdick continued to research and document the tracks throughout his lifetime and
multiple footprints, both dinosaur and human, were found and extracted from the
riverbed.
The primary reason they were extracted was because when exposed to the weather,
they were subject to serious erosion due to the carbonic acid that built up on
them.
They would be preserved if extracted.
You see, erosional factors are at play.
Weatherizing the flow of the river and when the river gets dry, carbonic acid
actually eats into the rock.
This is what happens when over years of time, they get carbonic acid from the
rainwater and it just destroys, you know, it just crumbles this rock and
it really erodes these tracks and eats them pretty quickly.
The legend of the giant man tracks continued to grow stronger when in 1964,
Dr. Billy Caldwell, a geologist from Fort Worth, Texas, received a startling
revelation.
I went into the stone business and started handling building stone for building that
we would bring as a geologist.
I could bring it from all over the United States.
And one day in 1964-65, one of my stone suppliers from Bill and Rose, his name was
Bill Osborne, he came in with a pickup truck and the back of the truck said,
I want to show you something.
And the back of the truck was a piece of Glen Rose limestone.
I could still see the fossils in it.
It was about four foot by four foot and it had a perfect human print in it.
And so, and I saw there was no differential weathering across and down in
the track and up was the same weathering all the way across.
There wasn't any indication of carbon.
It was a perfect looking print and I said to Bill, where'd you get that?
And he said, in the middle of the Plexi River.
It's been kind of slow, so we got out there with a cold chisel and we spent a
week cold chiseling this off.
It was four to six inches thick and so it weighed hundreds of pounds.
And then he told me one day, well I said, that is a really miraculous thing.
And I asked him one day, what are you going to do with it?
He said, I've had an offer, I think, of $800 from a man in Houston.
So I said, well I sure would like to have a casting of that if you're going to sell
it.
And so he made me a concrete cast.
And that original casting is here in the museum, the concrete one.
It's pretty heavy.
The real print that Bill Osborne sold was last seen at the 1965 New York World's
Fair.
It has never been seen since, possibly like the Cook Medical Clinic print and
artifacts that countered the evolutionary belief system, it was bought up and hidden
away or possibly destroyed.
The last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where they're there, the storage area
where they've hidden the Ark, that picture of we have good men working on it,
you know, it's hidden.
That's a pretty real depiction.
I think they hide more things than they show.
And we've run into that several times.
In the late 1960s, the Reverend Stanley Taylor from Peoria, Illinois, heard about
the human tracks through the writings of Clifford Burdick and went to Glen Rose to
investigate for himself.
He conducted numerous interviews with old-timers, shot 16 millimeter film,
and even extended the existing human footprint trails by excavating the
overburden along the bank of the river.
Fresh new human and dinosaur tracks were found in the same rock layer next to each
other, and one of the trails was named the Taylor Trail after its discoverer.
A film called Footprints in Stone was made using a 16 millimeter camera and released
in 1972.
This film showed numerous people putting their feet on the tracks with a
near-perfect fit.
For at least a decade, this film was shown to numerous church and school groups
across the country.
I became acquainted with the footprints down here in 1972.
The film had just been made, Footprints in Stone, and in fact it wasn't fully edited,
put together, but was shown in raw form.
And so I got very excited about that, and I wanted to see it myself.
And there were a couple of young teenagers that were skeptics.
Their parents attended where I preached.
I got them to go with me on this trip.
We rented a motorhome.
I got to see the footprints, and they got to walk in them, and stick their feet in
them, and feel that they fit.
And they became devout Christians as a result of that.
I saw the effect, and I believe this was very good evidence.
By late 1989, erosion had taken a considerable toll on the Taylor Trail,
but at least three of the tracks within the trail still displayed clear human
footprint features.
In 1989, these three tracks were maliciously destroyed.
Someone had entered the riverbed and used a metal bar to demolish the remnants of
the clearest tracks within the Taylor Trail.
Another track researcher was Dr. Cecil N.
Doherty, a chiropractor that moved to Glen Rose specifically because of the tracks.
He spent 17 years investigating them and photographing them.
In 1971, he came out with a book called Valley of the Giants, which gave
descriptions, locations, and pictures of the human footprints.
A friend of mine, Jan Mercer, told me about Dr. Cecil N.
Doherty, who had found some human tracks in place inside here.
So we contacted him, and we came down here, and he took us to the tracks.
They were perfect.
They were over in this area, and we met Paul in the park here.
They were so perfect, it was unbelievable.
Sometime I'd bring them down, the water would be real deep, and we'd just have to
kind of fill them.
Other times, the water was real low, and we could see them.
And there was two or three perfect tracks there.
Carl Ball came to Glen Rose in 1981 to excavate some of the dinosaur tracks.
Dr. Ball was a Christian but believed in evolutionary theory and cleaved to the
idea that man and dinosaur were separated by 65 million years of time, and so was
not expecting to discover the shocking revelation that changed his paradigm.
So I finally came to Glen Rose.
I was completing the master's in archaeology.
I had referred to the possibility that there were human footprints among dinosaur
footprints.
So my mentor, Dr. Clifford Wilson, said, if you're going to refer to that,
I'm assigning you an actual excavation.
You'll need to go to Glen Rose and perform an actual excavation.
So I got Father James and did.
At that point, I still personally held to the long ages.
I accommodated the dinosaurs in the Mesozoic era of the past, and I felt that
there was some substantiation to the geologic column.
Then I came to Glen Rose, performed the excavation, and to my absolute amazement,
after excavating 19 dinosaur footprints, at the end of that slab as I excavated
through the clay, there was not only a dinosaur footprint, but 17 and a half
inches from the dinosaur footprint, there was a 16 inch human footprint.
Now that blew my mind because my paradigm didn't accept that.
In 1984, Dr. Baugh obtained another print from the Paluxy through Clifford Burdick,
a geologist from Tucson, Arizona.
Clifford Burdick, a geologist, actually bought two prints way back in
probably the 1950s in Arizona.
He sent one to an Adventist college in the east, they sectioned it, and the
laminations were not all that clear.
He kept the other.
I was able to get the other from him in the 1980s.
It was part of his treasure.
I was able to get it from him, to purchase it.
That came from Paluxy?
It came from the Paluxy.
It came from the area on 67, where the the bridge crosses 67.
And it was excavated there.
Okay.
As they were building the bridge, cutting for the bridge.
The most recent human footprint finding from the Paluxy River was in 2002,
a resident of Stephenville, Texas and amateur fossil hunter, Albus Delk,
was walking along the tributary of the Paluxy River when he came across a fairly
large fossilized rock with a dinosaur footprint in it.
The rock was lodged between several other rocks and after about 45 minutes of work,
he was able to get the slab loose.
He took it home and stored it with the rest of his other fossil findings that he
had accumulated through the years.
The rock remained uncleaned and stored in his collection until 2008, when he decided
to sell some of his fossils.
In preparation for selling the rock fossils, he took a soft brush and started
to clean the dust and dirt off the slab, when it revealed an amazing discovery.
Within the tip of the dinosaur footprint was the outline and shape of a human foot.
The rock clearly displayed all five toes, instep and heel partially penetrated by a
three-toed theropod type of dinosaur.
Here we have a human footprint 11 and a half inches in length, same length as the
O.W.
Willett print.
This was discovered by Alvis Delk.
Human footprint stepping first.
Stepping on and intruding into the human footprint is an Acrocanthosaurus dinosaur
footprint.
Notice some of the mud was consolidated in the human footprint and the dinosaur
actually pushed it up into the human footprint.
As he moved forward, spiral CAT scan technology has been applied in two
certified laboratories and it's found that under the human track, around it,
under and around the dinosaur track, we have the same compression density.
So it is genuine.
Another significant footprint that Dr. Ball obtained in 2010 was the O.W.
Willett print, which was carved out of a limestone wedge along the banks of the
Paluxy River in the 1950s at a location along the river where the current Dinosaur
Valley State Park is located.
Willett's family was in possession of the print for 60 years and finally decided to
sell it to Dr. Ball's museum.
Retired park rangers have told people that they used to have yellow paint sprayed
around the human tracks and would point them out to the public when they came to
visit.
But after evolution became popular in the 1970s, they were forced to tell the public
that there were no human tracks in the park.
When we investigated Dinosaur Valley State Park, we were told by the park interpreter
that there were no human tracks in the park.
You're not going to ask me anything about man tracks?
If you, if you do not want us to I do not want to talk about man tracks.
Then we will not, then we won't ask you this question.
Okay, because there's none in the park.
Dinosaur Valley State Park was going to have a grand opening on that weekend and
that there was going to be, you know, dinosaur footprints and, you know,
that kind of stuff.
And so we decided let's go check it out.
So we go there.
There were signs that were pointing to the different tracks and the different
dinosaur tracks and to the human footprints.
And the dinosaur tracks on the signs, the signs were yellow with black letters
and they said the names of the dinosaurs that made those tracks.
On the human footprints, on the big ones, there was a sign that was pointing to one
of the big ones and it said caveman tracks.
So I got down and because that really caught my attention and I started,
I put my hand and started feeling that that human track, that big one.
And I never ever heard of such a thing.
And I saw the sign, caveman tracks, and that got my attention.
So time went on, a few years.
One day I was reading in Genesis.
And I read, I think it's in Genesis chapter 6, where the Bible says that right
before the flood that there was giants on earth.
And right when I read that, it was like a slide, like a picture in my head.
I remember that footprint that I had seen about 12 years before that.
There at Dinosaur Valley State Park.
And I told my wife, I got up and I told my wife, I uh, it says here that there used
to be giants on the earth.
We got to go in the car.
We got to go.
I got to show you these.
So we made a beeline for the state park.
12 years have passed since the time that I've been there with my buddies.
And we went, my wife and I, and went down there and we looked and looked and looked.
Couldn't find any human footprints anywhere.
So go back into the office or there, you know, the area where, you know,
the rangers and all the people that work for the park were sitting behind their
desks and stuff.
And I'll go up to the counter.
I said, what happened to those caveman tracks that y'all used to have out here?
And they all looked at me and they didn't say anything.
I said, what happened to the human footprints and the caveman tracks that you
used to have here?
And someone spoke up and said, we never had anything like that out here.
I said, oh yes, you did.
Back in 1972.
I saw them and my buddies saw them.
No, we've never had anything like that.
So I left and we were in the parking lot, but there was an elderly gentleman that
was in the inside and I didn't notice him, but he followed me outside and he stopped
me in the parking lot.
And he said, he said, pardon me, sir.
And I said, yes.
He said, I heard what you were saying inside.
I heard what you were, what you were asking those people in there.
He pointed to the, it kind of wooded around in there.
It's hilly and wooded.
He pointed through the woods and there was a building, small building, like a shed.
And he said, he said, those signs that you said you read, caveman tracks and the
dinosaur names that were on those signs.
He said, they're in that shed there in the woods, that shed, you see it?
I said, yes, I see it.
He said, those signs are in that shed.
And I asked him, how do you know?
He said, I put them there.
And I said, you put them there?
He said, yes, I put them there.
He said, I used to work here back during that time that you're talking about.
And I asked him, I said, well, what happened?
And he said, well, they took the signs out and they took the footprints, they took
them out.
And I said, well, then they were here.
He said, oh yeah, they were here.
But the human tracks aren't just a local phenomenon.
This is a worldwide occurrence.
There are fossil footprints in almost every continent of the world.
We find them in Asia.
We find them in Africa, South Africa.
We find them in France, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Central America,
Nicaragua.
Some of the footprints here locally are in Glen Rose.
We also find them in Tennessee and in Kentucky and Oklahoma and Utah and Arizona
and Colorado.
And so this isn't really isolated to Glen Rose.
These fossil footprints can be found on a global scale in many different parts of
the world.
There are two more sites in Texas, down near Sonora, Texas.
There's a site where there are five in a right left pattern that were discovered in
the thirties.
E&M came down and studied them and documented them and photographed them.
I have their photographs.
They're much more spectacular, but they're still playing.
Two or three of them are just spectacular.
In Cretaceous limestone, that's down at the southern extreme of the state.
On the northern extreme, up in the panhandle, you have another track that was
there displayed in the courthouse of Stinnett, Texas.
It was there on display for years.
It caused so much controversy that the fellow that owned it actually removed it,
and it's in his home now.
There were actually initially nine tracks, and in 52, they were in the newspaper.
We have the newspaper articles of these nine tracks.
Well, one of them has survived.
We've learned the location of at least one other.
Another amazing track that was found in New Mexico can be seen here.
We had a mining permit at the time.
We had a permit to be there and a permit to excavate, but you have to pass through
about five different ranches in order to get to the spot.
And the fellow that owned the ranch adjacent to the property...
I mean, this was BLM property, Bureau of Land Management.
It was not his, but he thought it was his.
And we had the paper, the permit.
He had a shotgun, and the shotgun trumps the paper every time we had to leave.
But we did get it well documented with cast and photographs, stereo photographs.
We did not get the track.
In 1968, amateur fossil collector William J.
Meister discovered the fossil of a human footprint.
When Meister first found the print, he took it to a geologist to examine it.
The geologist offered him a quarter of a million dollars for the print.
Meister asked, What are you going to do with it if I sell it to you?
The geologist responded, I'm going to destroy it.
It destroys my entire life's work as a geologist.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
That statement has never been more applicable than in the human footprint
controversy.
Dr. Patton, in his lifetime of expeditions, has experienced numerous
attempts to block, stall, and hinder the finding of the truth regarding man and
dinosaur living contemporaneously.
When you're messing both with their science and their religion, naturalistic
religion, you really raise the ire and the viciousness is more than is imaginable.
This... you kind of get used to it.
You try to work with it and avoid it, but it doesn't surprise and it doesn't
deter.
This evidence of fossil footprints in stone puts to rest the idea that man and
dinosaurs were separated by 65 million years and supports the biblical model of
creation.
Evolution is a bankrupt theory.
However, its defenders, which include humanistic academia and the establishment
media, are prepared to defend it to the bitter end.
Over the past 200 years, the battle to remove God from the hearts and minds of
men has raged on, and many proponents of evolution have used this theory in an
attempt to undermine the authority of the Word of God.
Any evidence in support of a biblical model of creation, no matter how
convincing, will continue to be opposed in support of evolution because of the
implications of having the Bible shown to be correct.
But what are the implications of the foundational battle of creation versus
evolution?
Either we arrived by a naturalistic evolutionary progression, or we arrived by
special creation.
In every major university around the world, in the philosophy department,
the four great questions of life are taught, or they're asked.
They're never answered.
Those four great questions are, who am I?
Where did I come from?
What's my purpose here, and where am I going?
Who am I?
If evolution is true, nobody.
Where did I come from?
I came from a rock.
What's my purpose?
I'm fertilizer for the future.
Where am I going?
Nowhere.
If evolution is true, this is it.
But some creationists hold to evolution and say, well, this is how God did it.
If God did it that way, but said he did it otherwise, you can't trust him.
You're not going anywhere if evolution is true.
And leading evolutionists have admitted, laughingly, some of you Christians hold to
evolution, and you think you're being academic.
They're incompatible.
It's one way or the other, and they laugh.
So, the other alternative.
What if creation is true?
If creation is true, who am I?
I am an individual originally made in the image of God.
Even though I'm really scarred, and I've not lived up to that image as I
should have, originally I was made in the image of God.
If creation is true, who am I?
That's who I am.
Where did I come from?
I came from his direct hand of special creation through Adam and Eve.
What's my purpose here?
My purpose is, first of all, to know him.
Privileged to know him.
And then to represent him.
To be his ambassador.
To speak for him.
And the fourth question, where am I going after this is over?
I'm going home to be with him for all eternity.
For God inhabits eternity.