Footprints in Coconino sandstone appear to have been made underwater
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Claim
Footprints in the Coconino sandstone are attributed to animals making tracks on damp sand dunes in a desert. However, they appear to have been made underwater instead. Dr. Leonard Brand compared the Coconino footprints with footprints made by actual reptiles under various conditions, and the Coconino footprints best matched the footprints made underwater.
Source
- Snelling, Andrew A. and Steven A. Austin, 1992. Startling evidence for Noah's Flood--In a Grand Canyon Sandstone! Creation Ex Nihilo 15(1):47. [1]
- Brand, Leonard R., 1978. Footprints in the Grand Canyon. Origins 5(2):64-82. [2]
- Brand, Leonard, 1991. Fossil vertebrate footprints in the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) of northern Arizona: Evidence for underwater origin. Geology 19(12): 1201-1204.
Responses
- Real scientists have never disputed that footprints can be made underwater. The only Creationists who think this claim is in any way a challenge to real science are Flood-believing YECs, apparently on the grounds that any underwater footprints must be evidence of the Noachian Flood -- which grounds are, of course, completely invalid in the absence of any reason to believe that said Flood actually occurred.
- The turbulence generated by a worldwide flood would have destroyed underwater footprints, if not slain any of the suspected animals that could have made such footprints.
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References
- Brand, Leonard, 1996. Variations in salamander trackways resulting from substrate differences. Journal of Paleontology 70(6): 1004-1011.
- Lockley, M.G., 1992. Comment and Reply on "Fossil vertebrate footprints in the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) of northern Arizona: Evidence for underwater origin" Geology 20(7): 666-667.
- Lockley, M.G., and A. P. Hunt, 1995. Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States. Columbia University Press.
- Loope, D. B., 1992. Comment and Reply on "Fossil vertebrate footprints in the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) of northern Arizona: Evidence for underwater origin" Geology 20(7): 667-668.
