Paluxy River trackway & fundamentalists

[Ray McAllister <mcallist@gate.net>]

Somehow my sig is way at the end. Ray McAllister DIVING DINOSAUR!

Stuart and the dino lurkers,
        I recently met a lady at a friends house. She and I were both 
scuba divers. She had a bad shoulder and I have a game leg. Heaven sent 
opportunity....NOT!!! On our first date she asked me my religious 
preference. I was going to hell because I weas not a BORN AGAIN 
Christian. Somehow we got on to dinosaurs and I brought up the Paluxy 
River tracks. She blew me away! I had no idea that there are a group of 
scientists camped on the Paluxy River banks whose sole duty is to mix 
cxement with local sand to nmake a mixture exactly the same color as the 
rock and to fill in any human footprints that were exposed during the 
meanders of the Paluxy. 
        How could any group of scientists be so sneaky? Clearly she had 
to have the facts. No religious born again Christian would falsify such 
a serious matter.
        Needless to say our relationship ended that nite, rather abruptly!
My point is that, like other fundamentalists (maybe even dino funds) one 
cannot possibly argue with a closed mind. 
        Hopethis is pertinent and useful to the discussion.

On Sat, 13 May 1995, Stuart Milliken wrote:

> *you just might want to file this as too-wierd-to be-true*!!
>   These are actual exerpts taken from the May 10 1995 Hamilton Mountain
> News.(for those of you who don't know where Hamilton,Ontario is,it's
> an industrial town about 60 miles sw of Toronto).The religion section
> featured an Evangelist Preacher named Steve Rudd and he has some
> interesting things to say:
>  (Quote) Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible."
>     (for space some passages are edited--not significantly,though.)
> (quote)
>        "the Bible mentions two dinosaurs by name and describes them in
> great detail."Behemoth"(Job 40:15-24) and Leviathan (Job 41:1-34).From
> the description found in Job,scientists have attempted to identify these
> animals.They believe "Behemoth" is a hippo and "Leviathan" is a
> crocodile."
>        "I believe a better choice is that behemoth is a Brachiosaur type
> of large land dwelling dinosaur.It fits the description
> perfectly"."Second Leviathan cannot be a crocodile but is probably an
> Elasmosaurus type of large water-dwelling dinosaur." (it's a marine
> reptile,actually).
>       he goes on to say:
>        "The Paluxy River in Texas,home of Dinosaur National Park...."
>        "Right beside the dinosaur tracks are three sets of human fossil
> footprints and a large cat track...The most famous track is the Taylor
> Trail.."The evidence is so convincing that several University students
> recently presented with all the data accepted that the human footprints
> were real,but doubted the dinosaur footprints were genuine."
>        Then he says:
>         "All the fossil footprints in the park are genuine.""No informed
> person would ever suggest that the human foot prints were carved as
> was rumoured 50 years ago."
>        His big conclusion is as follows:
>         "It is clear that man and dinosaur lived together and co-existed
> at the same time." "With this,both science and the bible agree".(since
> when?)
> 
>        What is this lunatic trying to accomplish?I feel he is trying to
> undermine all of the invaluable work Palaeontologists have
> done.Further,his attitude,I feel,belittles all scientists.
>        I hate seeing this kind of "information" being published in local
> newspapers.It's irresponsible.Sure,everyone is entitled to their
> beliefs,but why would a person in a responsible position,a man of the
> cloth,no less,write such incindiary clap-trap?
>   I find it impossible to believe that there are still "throwbacks" such
> as this in the '90's!.His claims are unfounded and ludicrous!People such
> as this must be stopped!
>                       Direct your ire to the Editor
>                                Hamilton Mountain News,
>                            fax (905) 385 2912
> 


Ray McAllister, Prof (Emeritus) Ocean Eng., FAU, Boca Raton, FL 33064
Diving Dinosaur, Geologist/Oceanographer/Ocean Engineer, 43 years SCUBA
mcallist@gate.net (305) 426-0808, Author Diving Locations, Boynton/Dania