Part 2 of 3 videos:
Here I will show more problems that dinosaur fossils provide for flood geology.
Part 1 looked at the models for time presented by YEC flood geologist vs standard views and how dinosaur egg clutches challenge the YEC views. In Part 2 will look at dinosaur tracks and show some of the problems that these present. Part 3 will look at claims that the discovery of dinosaur soft tissue does not fit the idea that dinosaurs lived long ago in deep time.
Here is a summary of what this video covers:
In this video, we will look at dinosaur tracks. What about the idea that dinosaur tracks are found with human tracks. That certainly would not fit the conventional understanding of when man appeared. As many YEC agree, this claim is just not credible.
In Part One, I showed how interpreting flood deposits to have been laid down during limited portions of a one-year flood event means that they would have been very rapidly formed chaotic deposits. The rate of deposition should have been not just rapid but nearly continuous. One should not find evidence of breaks in sedimentation for weeks. Evidence for such breaks in deposition might take many forms. In this case, we will look at evidence from the Book Cliffs in Utah where trees grew in the middle of what all flood geologists call the deposits of this global catastrophic flood. Some YEC believe that trees really weren’t growing there but were floated into place by the raging flood. In this case the dinosaur tracks all around them effectively show that this did not happen here. Another observation from the Book Cliffs is that tracks are found where a dinosaur walked across sediment that dried up long enough for mudcracks to form. How do you fit that into a raging flood? I show examples from around the world where this happened. It happened many times around the world and in multiple beds in some areas. The Mesozoic rocks just do not work in a flood model.
The last video in this series will look at the discovery of soft tissue from dinosaur bones. Does this constitute incontrovertible proof that these bones are young? Tune in later for that report.
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