Back by popular demand! The travelling Creation Museum, Creation Exhibition, is in the area for another week. Come see the scientific evidence and judge for yourself whether the evidence supports the Biblical account of Creation, or evolution. Showing scientific evidence from the dinosaurs, biology, geology, and fossils, as well as a model of Noah’s ark and one of the largest collections on display in the world of fossil human and dinosaur footprints found together, and dinosaurs in ancient art. The footprints show that humans lived right alongside (and according to the evolutionary timescale, even before) the dinosaurs. There is also a theater showing a different movie every hour.

Hosted at the Eastern Passage Baptist Church (in Eastern Passage), on the corner of Caldwell and Cow Bay Road, Hours are:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: Noon till 9pm
Tuesday: 11am till 6pm
Saturday: 9am till 5pm
Admission is $4 for adults, $3 students and seniors, $2 for children under 12, $12 for a family. Group rates of $2/person for groups of ten or more, and if you book your group in advance you can get a guided tour. For more information, or to book your group, call toll-free: 1-877-532-9160 , press 1 at the menu.

You can also get a brief look here on video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH0W-Lemg8I

Hours are Monday to Thursday, 11 am thru 7 pm, Saturday 10 am – 7 pm, Sunday 2 pm – 7 pm, and Friday 11 am -4pm.

Admission rates are $4/adult, $3 for students and seniors, $2 for children under 12, $12 for family.

We are located upstairs in Cole Harbour Place, in the Harbour room – we hope to see you here!

We’re open Friday from 11 am till 7 pm, Saturday from 10 am till 5 pm and Sunday from 1pm till 5 pm.  Admission is $4/person, $3 for students and seniors, $2 for children 12 and under.

You can watch a brief intro video and tour here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p6OqjdwBd4

Well hello everyone, I was handed a video by the living dinosaur entitled “Holy Halucinations 31″ – which was an emotional, irrational, hate-filled tirade against my person, allegedly in response to my CrEvo Rant # 71 – the Population Problem, where I simply made the point that the world population is waaaaay too small for the evolutionary timescale, and did indeed fit in well with the Biblical timescale. TheLivingDinosaur, whom I will sometimes refer to as “dino” for short, really didn’t even touch my argument, and instead went in waaaay over his head in commentary that was full of astonishing, glaring errors. Now originally I didn’t even think the video was worthy of a response. In fact, I’m still not so sure it is, just because the errors are so simple, and so glaring. However, multiple atheists sent me this video – apparently dino was not the only one to see the glaring errors. So, I’m making this response, and I’m going to close with a challenge to thelivingdinosaur, as well as all youtubers.
The script for this video will be available here: http://ianjuby.org/newsletter/?p=534
Now – dino – in the words of the Newfoundlander, Calm down! Goooood grief! You’re gonna have an anneurism! I’m amazed at your anger and vitriolic hatred – I mean, you lost sleep over this! I can tell! But what blows me away is the things you were angry about the most, were things that were not even true. You made a very long string of slanderous accusations that were completely unfounded – and you would have known this if you had even taken just a moment to get to know me. This, combined with your glaring ignorance on the very issues YOU brought up, just…blows me away! I’m even further shocked that apparently none of your viewers spotted your glaring errors, and I wonder why.
In his video, dino said:
“And before I continue, I also wanted to point out that while you seem to have no problems in expecting deserts and wastelands to be capable of sustaining hordes of human beings, I strongly suspect that you’d quickly change your tune after a couple of weeks in the Sonoran Desert living off skunk [poo] and cactus spines took its toll on that odobenine physique of yours.”
and
“Is it now, Boobie? Well, we’ll go on to see what kind of plops of wisdom you’re planning to excrete in a minute, but let me again take a moment to remind you about what my ten-year-old already knows: available land area makes absolutely [expletive deleted] all difference to population size if other resources are limiting, you ignorant ‘tard.
Of course, as we’ll find out later, your sickly, stunted mind is actually vaguely aware of this fact so you’re either deliberately lying about it, actively ignoring it, or dismissing it out of hand because it’s somewhat inconvenient to the ludicrous excuse for an argument that you’re in the process of squeezing out”
And thus, only seconds into the video, Dino makes his first huge. glaring, blunder. I’m astounded that Dino didn’t think this through, and even more astounded that apparently none of his viewers never noticed this glaring error either.
I wrote to a young man in Arizona and asked him to comment. Harrison replied:
“I’m fifteen, and I think anyone is capable of living in the Sonoran desert. I’ve lived here for 14 years and suffered no side effects.”
Apparently theLivingDinosaur is unaware that there are MILLIONS of people living in the desert – the Sonoran in particular. They even have internet access.
Have you never heard of Phoenix? Tucson? And all the suburbs in between? Ever heard of Las Vegas, Nevada? All of these cities were built because enormous amounts of people were successfully living in the desert. And before you start spouting off about modern technology and conveniences, may I remind you that Phoenix was incorporated as a city in 1881! And if Falchion49 is such an expert at archaeology, why did he not inform you of the Native Americans who were living right there, in the Sonoran desert, quite successfully, long before white man came along and built cities. The native americans actually dug irrigation canals and were raising crops in the middle of the desert which you are saying is inhospitable.
In fact, apparently you’re not aware that you can go and pick your own apples and pears, right there in the Sonoran Desert, at Agua Linda Farms! In 2004, Arizona produced 261,354 metric TONNES of desert durum – Wheat. Guess where they grow it? as the name implies, the Desert. That’s an average of 6,031 pounds of wheat per acre of growing land….in the Sonoran desert…..in Arizona.
In fact, just about anywhere you go where it is allegedly “Inhospitable,” people have been thriving for thousands of years – quite successfully. Yes, even the high arctic!

In response to my comments about the human population bottleneck at the time of Noah and the flood, thelivingdinosaur responded:

“For example, Hawks and colleagues have concluded that the currently available genetic, anatomical and archaeological data preclude any possibility of a pre-Pleistocene human population bottleneck, much less one of only eight promiscuous camel fanciers less than five thousand years ago. Of course I’m sure than none of this matters to a delusional numbnut who’s decided to place his stock in the ramblings of long-dead tribal shamen rather than in the proven track record of modern science.”
Again, obviously wading in way over his head, The living dinosaur has not done his homework and has made a brazenly erroneous statement which is not difficult to shoot down.
As Dr. Robert Carter pointed out on a very easy to access website, [http://creation.com/noah-and-genetics] Carter documents some of this evidence in one easy-reading article, as well as multiple technical articles. Nelson wrote on this matter back in 2004! He made use of the various mutation and variation processes which are well known to make his point about evidence for a genetic bottleneck in humans which was consistent with the flood account and timeline. http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j18_3/j18_3_18-23.pdf

Ironically, Nelson was 14 when he wrote that paper. So why is it a 14 year old, writing 8 years ago, seemed to know more about the subject than the living dinosaur does now.
Let us also not forget the very significant point that Dr. Jonathan Sanford elaborated on in his book “Genetic Entropy and the mystery of the Genome”, which I also explained in CrEvo Rant #78, the boat that don’t float. Genetic entropy shows that not only are we deteriorating – the exact of evolution, it also shows we could not have been around for millions of years as evolution proposes because we are deteriorating too quickly. The small population of earth also shows just how young it is.
Dino want on:
“Secondly, you neglected to explain why this unfettered human population growth that you’re describing, when applied to the remaining members of the animal kingdom, hasn’t left us all wading knee deep in aardvarks, earwigs, koalas and kestrels. Could it be that you didn’t think of that, Boobie? Or that you just don’t think at all, dumb-[expletive deleted]?”

Or could it be that you, dino, didn’t know your own glaring ignorance, or that you just contradicted yourself? The whole POINT of my rant that you were responding too was that the population is too small for it to be millions of years old. So thank for you reinforcing my point while simultaneously shooting yourself in the foot. With regards to animals, apparently you once again missed the glaringly obvious answer as to why we are not overrun with aardvarks – the answer to which will be a theme consistent throughout the rest of this video – an answer to which you are astonishingly unaware of.
We do find ridiculous animal populations. Let’s take a look at Woodmorappe’s analysis of various populations he discussed in his paper “The Antideluvian Biosphere and its Capability” – written in 1986!
‘”Compare this “impossbile”density with known densities (in individuals per hectare) of some modern reptiles: 889 (1.6kg iguanid lizards), few thousand to 110,000 (anoles and other small lizards), 548 (Colubrid snakes), 10,000 (Manchuria island pit viper), 1,235 (Colorado rattlesnakes), 480 (the rhyncocephalian Tuatara), 570 (pond turtles).”

One study in Morocco documented an estimated 2,950 lizards PER HECTARE, and another study in Northern Spain estimated 1,327-1,574 lizards per hectare.

The moose is not native to Newfoundland, it was introduced in 1878 as one bull and cow. Today there is an estimated 120,000 moose, and they are a dangerous pest on the island now. Why isn’t the number bigger? One major factor: People. People are the reason animal populations are controlled – hunting, over hunting, extermination, wars, and yes even ecological abuse by humans.

“And that’s the second thing that [angered me]. Considering that you look like you’re seldom more than an arm’s length away from a bacon double cheeseburger you have some [expletive deleted] nerve to talk about there being no global food supply problem. Really, Boobie? Really? What kind of selfish, egotistical, self-centered [expletive deleted], who, by the looks of it, gorges daily on triple McCow burger supersized meals topped with extra helpings of saturated fat has the nerve to put out his [expletive deleted] videos, smiling his smug “I’m alright Jack” smile and thinking that everyone in the world is as lucky as he is? Well I can answer that for you Boobie. The answer, it seems, is a fundamentalist creationist Christian.
So while you might think that you’re defending your religion, I have some news for you. All you’re doing is showing the world how worthless your particular version of God is making you a better person and how effective it is at making you a worthless crusty skid mark in the gusset of humanity. You’re no better than the countless other avaricious alleged Jesus-loving, God-fearing mother-[expletive deleted] whose only real concern is in trying to grab as much of the pie for themselves while simultaneously giving not one [expletive deleted] for those who are unfortunate enough to have no pie at all.”

This is where thelivingdinosaur really went off the rails. Not only did he show his own ignorance of the subject matter, he also revealed his hypocrisy. You see, dino, you know nothing about me. If you had even taken but a second to get to know me, you would have saved yourself the embarrassment of hurling false and slanderous accusations. I am a member of Youth With a Mission – a global missions organization which is involved in relief efforts around the world. I have actually been on the front lines, bringing food to desperate people, and have shed many tears of those dying of hunger. I live on about 15,000 dollars a year – considered the poverty line here in Canada. I live in my van regularly, willingly sacrificing to keep expenses down. And yet even with all of that, I still give money to the poor and needy, including funding relief efforts to starving people around the world.

Your comments betray you dino. You have no idea why there is starving people in the world. The reason you do not know – is because you have obviously never attempted to even lift a finger to help starving people in the world. What atheist organization have you supported who is out there, feeding the hungry? Have you been on the front lines, risking your life, trying to bring food to starving people in Africa? I can tell you haven’t, because if you had, you would know better than to say the things you did.
In the meantime, you sit at home, producing hate-filled internet videos criticizing people like me over starving people – when I’m actually out there doing something about starving people.
I wonder how many people starved to death because you did not put any time or money into saving them. Instead of holding out your hand and giving to their need, you simply pointed a finger at them and yelled “Aha! See! Aha!” as they died of hunger. With your other finger, you point in false accusation and criticism at others like myself who actually are holding out their hand and giving to the needy as they can. Shame on you. Shame on you.
But let me enlighten all of you, because it appears the majority of your viewers are also desperately ignorant on this matter.
Seeing as how you only seem to consider me an expert in food, then let’s talk about food.
In 1997, the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported a study where they found that 78% of the worlds malnurished children live in countries which are food exporters! Clearly this starvation had absolutely nothing to do with the lack of food.
According to Fruit Ninja, California alone produces 1 BILLION pounds of strawberries every year. Seem like a stretch? it isn’t at all.
In one acre of farmland, in one summer, you can produce 11,000 pounds of spinach, or 19,400 pounds of carrots or, or 15,200 pounds of potatoes, or 9,100 pounds of lettuce, or 6,200 pounds of corn. The numbers really go through the roof when you get to fruit, as you can produce over 25,000 pounds of apples in one acre of land, in one growing season, or over 31,000 pounds of peaches. California alone, in 1992 produced 400,050 TONS of apples – 4,875,000 TONS of grapes. In Minnesota, where growing rice is very difficult, farmers still cultivate between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of rice per acre – in California farmers can produce 8,000 pounds of rice per acre.

[http://www.gardensofeden.org/04%20Crop%20Yield%20Verification.htm]

When I said we haven’t even scratched the surface of earth’s natural resources, I wasn’t kidding, nor was I speaking in ignorance, contrary to what you seem to think.

Let’s go with 7 billion people in the world. If you eat 5 pounds of food per day, you will become overweight. 5 pounds per day, 7 billion people, 365 days is about 12,775,000,000,000 pounds of food per year needed to feed the whole world.
let’s pick a middle-of-the road crop yield of 12,000 pounds of food per acre to build a baseline. Let’s use the Continental US for growing land – approximately 2,425,600,000 acres. But let’s do as you suggested, let’s write off 40% of that land as unuseable – an unreasonably high number, but I want to make a point. That leaves 1,455,360,000 acres of land, at 12,000 pounds per acre, that’s 17,464,320,000,000 pounds of food that can be grown. That small an area can produce 137% of the food needed to sustain our present population.
In fact, let’s take a look at actual annual food production figures. Notice that at about 13 and a half trillion pounds of food, we are already well over the required quantity of food, and notice what I have left out of the list: Meats, fish, a LOT of different vegetables, nuts and many common fruits.

You can start to see why the organization Food First said:
“Abundance, not scarcity, best describes the world’s food supply. Enough wheat, rice and other grains are produced to provide every human being with 3,500 calories a day. That doesn’t even count many other commonly eaten foods – vegetables, beans, nuts, root crops, fruits, grass-fed meats, and fish. Enough food is available to provide at least 4.3 pounds of food per person a day worldwide: two and half pounds of grain, beans and nuts, about a pound of fruits and vegetables, and nearly another pound of meat, milk and eggs-enough to make most people fat! The problem is that many people are too poor to buy readily available food. Even most “hungry countries” have enough food for all their people right now. Many are net exporters of food and other agricultural products.”
Which now leads us to the real reason why there is starving people in the world: Other people are the real reason. You see, dino, if you had actually taken the time you used up to make your rancid, hate-filled vitriolic videos and instead went out and volunteered with a relief organization attempting to feed starving people, you would know all of this. I’d like to see you a part of that team that is transporting trucks of food to the most hard-hit places of starving people, only to get held up at gunpoint by militia who take all the food. My peoples – those Christians to whom you poured out so much hate – that’s the risks they take to reach these needy people – while you sit in comfort and accuse them of being in it for the money.
During the Somali famine of 2011, multiple organizations had shipping containers full of food, trying to get it to the starving people. The government would not allow the aid into the country.
Most hungry people are surrounded by food and simply cannot afford to buy any.
People are the reason there are starving people in the world, dino. People are the problem. People disobeying God’s very clear instructions scattered throughout the entire Bible.

The challenge:
Now look, in spite of your emotional, horribly wrong, personal ad-hominem attack on myself, I don’t hate you. In fact, I’m praying for you.
I am, however, SOOOOO sick and tired of hearing hypocritical atheists yell up a storm about starving people in the world, as if it’s God’s fault, while simultaneously sitting there, doing nothing about it, and thus condemning yourselves as part of the problem. YOU are part of the reason there are starving people in the world. So it’s time to put up and shut up. I am laying out this challenge for theliving dinosaur, as well as all atheists, all Christians, all youtubers. I don’t want to hear another word out of you atheists about this subject, because you have invalidated yourselves from the privilege of saying anything about something you clearly know nothing about, and clearly don’t care about. Because if you really cared, you’d do something about it! If you’d been doing something about it, you wouldn’t be saying such ignorant rubbish as that spewed forth in dino’s video. It seems the only time you “care” is if it gives you the opportunity to slander a God you say doesn’t exist, or accuse His followers who are actually out there doing something about it.

My first challenge is this: I want to see you out there, on the front lines, feeding hungry people. Go to some foreign country, volunteer with some aid group trying to get food to the world’s most needy. Bring your video camera along,document your trip, your story. Interview the aid workers, interview the people you are helping to feed – ask them why they are hungry. Ask the aid workers about why, if there is so much food in the world, these people are starving. Put it all together into a video and post it as a video response to this video. perhaps you just came back from a missions trip – please share your story in video.
Now I realize many of you just simply cannot go – and that’s okay – although do remember, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, there are starving people – even right smack dab in the middle of the land of plenty. Go volunteer at the local soup kitchen, or donate food to them. If you can’t go, I have a second challenge for you: support those who DO go.
I have $100 here. To me, that is a LOT of money. I am donating this to the ERDO relief fund, affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. I am also sponsoring a child monthly through them. In fact, I would highly recommend that as the best way to help needy people – why?
You see, disaster relief usually has no lack. It’s good to donate towards disaster relief projects. But the majority of starving people in the world, actually live in a land of plenty – but they cannot afford food. it’s expensive and illogical to ship food to these families in countries that are exporters of food. It’s much simpler and cheaper to send MONEY to the needy families. That money that you sponsor a child with actually sponsors the whole family. Yes, some of that money is used to pay the people who organize this – the aid workers. They need to eat too, they have bills to pay, and mouths to feed in their family too, and it is a full time job for these people just to orchestrate getting money to these needy families. So I have no qualms donating money to the organization for their needs as well. But by sponsoring a child – or many children, you actually support a family – you make a difference for multiple people, because they are starving due to lack of money, not lack of food.

I’m including a list of organizations at the end – I even included some secular ones for my atheist friends who don’t want to support Christians organizations. Please share this video with your friends, family, fellow atheists and other youtubers. And I’ll talk to you all later.

Christian:
www.erdo.ca
-emergency relief fund, as well as child sponsorship

www.wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf (World Vision International)
-emergency relief fund, as well as child sponsorship

www.YWAM.org (Youth With A Mission)
-global relief and evangelism, as well as mercy ships

www.OM.org (Operation Mobilization)
-global relief and evangelism, as well as mercy ship

Secular:

Because I am a girl:

www.plan-international.org/girls/
-child sponsorship, specifically focusing on girls

www.directrelief.org
-emergency relief and longer-term care

In this special report newsletter showing first-hand research:

1) New program on every week: Genesis Week

2) Keeping up on all the information: More news bites
3) Special report #1: The strange fossil footprints of Berea, Kentucky
4) Upcoming exhibitions

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1) New program on every week: Genesis Week

I must first of all apologize for not getting a newsletter out sooner to make this announcement…but alas, I was so busy producing my weekly show I didn’t have a chance to announce it! :)

I am very excited to be producing a weekly episode of Genesis Week, available on YouTube every Thursday. We are now on episode 8 of the first season. Every single episode has been in the top ten most discussed videos in science and technology on YouTube.
The owner of the Big Valley Creation Science Museum and the board of CORE Ottawa enjoyed the program so much they have each sponsored the production.

Each week I have dove into the comments (both good and bad) left for the program, and the viewer comments have been very enlightening, becoming a favourite part of the program for viewers.

So here are the first six episodes, rate, rant and enjoy!
If you wish to keep up, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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2) Keeping up with all the information: More news bites

Some of you will recall that I’ve been attempting to post News bites to my blog whenever I can. News bites are just short little pieces of commentary on a current news item relating to the origins issue. I’ll be referring to these on Genesis Week as well, on the new “ticker tape” feature of the program.

So how can you keep up with the flood of information? If you’re receiving this newsletter, then obviously, you’re already signed up for it. That’s one way – but News bites won’t be included. You can sign up for the News bites via Feedburner – simply visit my blog, and on the right hand side you’ll see “Enter your email address” You’re smart, you can figer out the rest.

If you received this newsletter from a friend and want to sign yourself up, you can sign up here: http://ianjuby.org/csmcsignup.html

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3) Special report #1: The strange fossil footprints of Berea, Kentucky

Several years back, with the help of friends in high places, I had managed to track down (pun intended) an article from 1940 documenting the Berea, Kentucky fossil human footprints in Carboniferous rocks. Allegedly 250 million years old, fossil footprints in such rock are a huge problem for evolutionists who claim that humans had not evolved until the last 500,000 years or so, and our allegedly ancient hominid ancestors some 5 million years ago.

These footprints had been cited by creationists for years, and fossil human footprints being one of my specialties, I of course wanted to follow up on it. The article was in Scientific American, January issue. It contained four photos of which I took one quick glance, and with disappointment said “Nope, those are carvings, not genuine fossil footprints.”

In fact, it was this very article from which many of you will have undoubtedly heard the quote by author Albert Ingalls, saying:

Apparently I was not the only one to reject the Berea tracks as carvings, based on the photos provided in SciAm. The story that unfolded over the next year surprised me. A gentleman I had met via the internet, David Willis, had wanted to go to Berea to investigate these tracks. David turned out to be an incredible sleuth, finding out all kinds of details about the tracks and the archives at the college in Berea, as well as another alleged fossil human footprint in Tennessee which I had only seen on television.
I was in Ohio in 2009, and had a couple of days to spare before heading back to Canada. David’s schedule also permitted him time, so we set out to Berea.

Professor Burroughs was the gentleman who originally studied the Berea tracks. A geologist who founded the geology department and taught at Berea college, there is now a small museum named after him in the college. I would dare say that little museum is well worth the visit. http://www.berea.edu/geologymuseum/

Burroughs began his study of the tracks in 1930. These footprints were so remarkably human, that upon suggestion and discussion with Dr. Frank Thone (Science Service, an organization for the popularization of science associated with the Smithsonian) he gave the tracks the latin name “Phenanthropus mirabilis,” which means “looks human; remarkable.”

The “fossil tracks” that appeared in January 1940 Scientific American, page 14. Interpreted to be the Berea, Kentucky tracks by talkorigins.org.

When one looks at the photos provided in the SciAm article, one begins to wonder what drugs Burroughs and Thone were on to give such a name to tracks that do not look human… and so the first surprise came to light when David and I went through the correspondence and photographic archives at the college. With the exception of the upper left “track” in the images above, *none* of the SciAm images even vaguely resembled the Berean footprints. In fact, reading the first paragraph of the SciAm article carefully, one can read between the lines that they admit the photographs are not the Berean tracks!

Notice that they did not say where these particular tracks were found? Notice that they never claimed these tracks were the Berean footprints? The photograph credit was given to F.R. Johnston. Who on earth is F.R. Johnston? We have no idea – because Johnston’s name appears nowhere in any of the boxes of correspondence we looked at in the archives at Berea college. All photographs of the Berea tracks were taken by a local professional photographer by the name of Coleman Ogg of Ogg studios, located right in Berea, whom Borroughs hired to photograph the tracks.

We found a copy of the SciAm article in Burrough’s archives, complete with his disdainful comments on the bottom of the page:

(Photo used with Permission from the Berea College archives www.berea.edu)

The photographs were not of the Berea tracks, that much was clear. But it would appear that Burroughs did recognize the tracks depicted in the SciAm photos as he complained that Bushnell “did not visit these tracks.“ (emphasis mine)
In fact, in his typical die-hard sleuth fashion that would make Columbo proud, David continued to pursue further information on the whereabouts of the Berea tracks presently, and also obtained Dr. Gilmore’s correspondence from the Smithsonian. In his correspondence with Gilmore, Burroughs sent a photograph of what he called “Indian carvings” he had examined about 30 miles away from the Berea track site. It would appear that somehow the photos that wound up in the SciAm article were of the “Indian carvings” found some 30 miles from the fossil human footprints, which Burroughs had also visited at one point and had determined were Indian carvings (petroglyphs) not tracks.

What we can say is that in all the photographs that David and I examined, as well as pencil rubbings of the Berea tracks, maps, and casts, we saw NO tracks that resembled the photos in the SciAm article. At no place at the Berea site were three tracks found side by side. The toes of the Berea prints most certainly did not look like the toes in the second, third and fourth SciAm images, and the middle inset image (the first image shown in the group above) only vaguely resembles the Berea tracks (and appears to be lacking the fifth toe, which the Berea tracks did not).

The images depicted in the SciAm article arenot the Berea tracks in question.

As if that wasn’t scandalous enough, the Christian Science Monitor also ran a report which contained no photographs of the Berea tracks, but a pencil rubbing of a pair of the tracks, and a fossil trail of amphibian tracks from some unknown location!

Photographs from Creation Science Monitor, Aug 31, 1938, pg 2, captioned “Upper: Photograph of footprints of a prehistoric creature appearing in solid sandstone on a Kentucky farm. Each foot has five toes, the foot-prints being 9-1/2 inches long and 6 inches across the toes. Darkened area is due to film of oil left on rock after cast of footprints was made. Lower: Photograph of “rubbings” of footprints of one of the prehistoric creatures that left imprints of left and right feet where it stood in damp sand that later hardened into sandstone. Note arch and five toes of each foot.” The errors are glaring: The upper photograph is of a pencil rubbing of a pair of the Berea human tracks (the original pencil rubbing is one of several in the Berea college archives that David and I saw), the lower image is a photograph of fossil amphibian tracks. There is no darkened area caused by film of oil, because the upper image was a pencil rubbing, not the actual fossil. There was still a copy of the press release photo in the Berea archives (left), as well as several original pencil rubbings (click on image for larger size): (Photos used with Permission from the Berea College archives www.berea.edu)

Burroughs pointed out the glaring errors and flagrant misinformation contained in the reports in his correspondence with others.

The Scandal:

The scandalous nature of the reporting of the Berea tracks alone should raise a few eyebrows. Both the SciAm and the Christian Science Monitor articles contained photos implied (or outrightly stated) to be photographs of the Berea tracks which were not the Berea tracks. Both articles interviewed “experts” who then gave their “professional opinion” on the tracks depicted in the non-Berean footprint photographs appearing in the articles. The CSM article even went to the trouble of depicting ten footprints in the amphibian tracks – the number matching the count of the Berean tracks at that time. It would be gracious to call this horrible journalism or gross error. It is probably more accurate to refer to the reports as fraudulent.
Ingalls mentioned that “science” had rejected the human footprint explanation. Actually, scientists of evolutionary persuasion had rejected that interpretation. Their reasons were the same, vacuous reasons I hear regularly when people wish to dismiss profound evidence of man in “old” rock layers.

In fact, reading through Burrough’s private correspondence was quite enlightening, as in almost every instance Burroughs was very careful to always refer to the tracks as “human like.” A letter to Borroughs from Waldemar Kaempffert, Science Editor of the New York Times, read “Dear Sir: The footprints to which you refer in your letter of recent date are probably not human in origin. There is not the slightest fossil evidence that Man was known in this country back of the last Ice Age. Faithfully yours, (signature of Kaempffert).” (dated January 27, 1938. Burroughs noted he wrote back on January 31, 1938)

Burrough’s response was probably the only time he wrote so emphatically: “They are P O S I T I V E L Y human footprints – brought to view thru erosion of millions of years.” Burroughs invited Kaempffert to come see the tracks for himself, but it is unknown whether Kaempffert ever took him up on the offer.

Kaempffert’s response, as well as that of Ingalls, smacks of the typical argumentation which I presented in the second pilot episode of Genesis Week, starting at the 7:37 mark:
http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=7k0B80oJlQw#t=7m37s

What is the evidence?

So what then is the evidence? The tracks were found in a ledge of rock that was part of the Pottsville formation sandstone. This is one of the original photos of the site straight from Dr. Burrough’s archives:

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(Photo used with Permission from the Berea College archives www.berea.edu)

David and I both obtained wax castings of the Berea tracks from the Berea college museum, and two of these tracks are now part of the new “fossil human footprints” exhibit in my traveling creation museum. See “upcoming exhibitions” down below for more details on how you can see these tracks for yourself.

A single footprint from Berea. Notice the displaced mud surrounding the heel which would not be present if the track was a carving.

While some are the strangest human footprints I have ever seen, I was shocked at what I saw. Namely, there was displaced mud surrounding the prints. This one fact alone convinced me the tracks were genuine, and Burroughs pointed this out repeatedly in his correspondence. Burroughs and others who examined the tracks also pointed out that the grains of sand in the sandstone were more compacted under the tracks, and this compaction was visible under a magnifying glass. One of those persons was an artist and a sculptor by the name of Frank Loug (sp? The signature is difficult to read). Obviously Burroughs was seeking Loug’s opinion as to whether these were carved tracks or not. Loug made an interesting observation to which he wrote in an undated, signed letter (transcribed exactly as written, spelling mistakes are in the original):

Indeed, Loug brings up a significant point about a particular track which became exposed over time, of which the heal is only visible in this early photo:

(Click on image for larger version – Photo used with Permission from the Berea College archives www.berea.edu)

This particular track is significant in that it was only exposed after Burroughs had started his research, and several eye witnesses signed a testimony documenting how this track became exposed after the overlying layer had eroded away. The letter reads:

This is why the footprint count at the track site varies the reports: originally it was ten tracks, then eleven, then twelve. It is because other footprints were being exposed over time. The tracks are clearly not carvings.
You probably noticed the odd placement of the toes in the first casting. This is actually caused by the person habitually running barefoot. In fact, one person who had visited the Berea tracks with Dr. Burroughs had placed his feet within the Berea tracks and noted the remarkable match:
“My own feet as you will recall, fitted in the tracks perfectly, even to the arches, the only exception being the wider toe spread in the track. During my years residence and travels in Far Eastern Oriental countries, I was a very close observer of the natives, their habits and customs. the foot tracks you discovered could well be those of barefoot natives of remote villages and jungle settlements or those of aboriginal tribes with whom I came in frequent contact, so near do they approach the formation of these prehistoric ‘tracks’. Most cordially yours, A. Merle Hooper” (Private correspondence to Burroughs from A. Merle Hooper, October 18, 1938)

Several of the tracks were in right-left pattern, enabling identification of the track maker as bipedal (walking on two legs).

Casting of Berea tracks in the “Fossil Human Footprints” exhibit, Creation Science Museum of Canada. Again, note the displacement of the sand by the footprints. The cracks were in the wax casting, and not the original rock. The site of the Berea fossil footprints. Sadly, all the tracks have been cut out of the rock over the past 70+ years.

Except for his one outburst in response to the New York Times’ science editor Kempffert, you could see Burrough’s own private struggle with the footprints. They were clearly fossil footprints – of that much he was certain. But he knew the ramifications of the tracks being made by humans, and thus struggled with accepting them as human. His struggle can be seen in the words of many of those who have seriously considered and looked into these Carboniferous tracks.

Why the struggle? Because if man has been around since the Carboniferous, then evolution has been rightly falsified. It also means the earth is young, and that Creation is true. The ramifications are spiritual in nature, not physical. Scientific evidence showing the earth is young is not a big deal. Pointing to a Creator God? That is a big deal in the minds of men. The Berea fossil footprints provide excellent evidence of humans in the Carboniferous.

In the next CrEvo News, we’ll give another special report on first-hand research into some mysterious fossil footprints at Horton Bluff, Nova Scotia, which are just as stunning in their ramifications as the Berean footprints.

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4) Upcoming exhibitions

As I mentioned in a previous newsletter, I am presently upgrading current exhibits and building new ones. My museum will be a stand-alone exhibit and will be on display:

Creation Flood Evidence Museum
Goodwood, Ontario (suburb of Toronto)
April 14 thru April 22nd

Cole Harbour Place, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia
April 27 thru May 4

If you wish to bring the creation exhibition to your facility, please contact me.

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