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Langebaan Track
Nicaragua Track
Volcano Track
Laetoli Track
Burdick Track
Taylor Track
Turkmenistan Track
Nevada Track
Zapata Track
Kentucky Track
Meister Track

The Zapata Track
The Zapata Track
Robledos Mountains, New Mexico
248 to 290 million years ago


The Discovery:

In 1987 paleontologist Jerry MacDonald discovered a number of fossilized tracks from many different species of animals and birds in a Permian strata. Among the tracks were prints of a human foot.

Established Theory:

The Permian strata is dated at 290 to 248 million years ago based on the geological strata of the area. According to the evolutionary theory of time this was millions of years before animals, birds and even dinosaurs existed and over 200 million years before the evolution of man. No comments are found from the evolutionary community refutting the claim that these prints are from a human being in the ancient Permian strata. The Smithsonian Magazine featured an article on the discovery in July, 1992 (Vol. 23, pg 70) titled "Petrified Footprints: A Puzzling Parade of Permian Beasts". The article acknowledged "what paleontologists like to call, 'problematica.'" It described what appeared to be large mammal and bird tracks that, "evolved long after the Permian period, yet these tracks are clearly Permian."

Jerry MacDonald's discovery of animal trackways in the Permian strata of New Mexico is documented at the "Worldwide Museum of Natural History" but, no mention is made of the zapata track or the conflict in dates between the existence of humans and other animals in a layer that is not suppose to have these.

Both the Smithsonian and Jerry MacDonald (who appears to be an evolutionist) have un-biasly documented the prints of mammals and birds in the strata even though it contradicts the evolutionary timetable but, did not mention the human print found among them.


Alternative Theory:

The Creationist community agree that the print is human in origin and proof that humans existed during the time of the dinosaur.


Conclusions:

Anyone looking at this print can tell it is human. Because of the evolutionary communities silence on this print it appears that there is no geological or evolutionary explanation for this print.



Reader's Comments

Donna 7-31-06
This is clearly NOT a human footprint, as the anatomy is wrong. It's probably a carving, though there are other possible explanations. What is certain is that no human would produce a footprint that looks like that. The least its creator could have done is looked at a few actual human footprints before going to work. Step into some mud, yourself, and compare. You'll see that the ball of the foot is anomalous, and the arch impression is basically missing, in that 'fossil'...among other problems.