Flintstone's Footprints

[Willa25743@aol.com]

If you really want to tick off a creationist, tell 'em you think the "man
tracks" 
were indeed made by humans -- time travelers from the future!

I've tried to reason with fundamentalists that there's no way humans and
dinosaurs 
lived contemporaneously, Alley Oop and Fred Flintstone notwithstanding.
Somehow
they think that the very existence of dinosaurs either flies in the face of
their
religion, or must somehow be squeezed into its confines. ("The dinosaurs were

too big for Noah to load into the Ark, dear.")

As I try to explain to them the scale of geological time, I admit that their
solution
just seems too fantastic for me to grasp. In the end, you can't really reason
with 
a creationist: a mind that is made up just will not open wide enough to to
accept 
contrary evidence. It almost seems criminal to attempt to shoehorn the
majesty of
billions of years of life into a measly 5,000 years. Indeed, it should be
criminal to
indoctrinate children with such hokum.

I usually withdraw from such an argument by agreeing that it's not 100%
impossible:
maybe humans DID make the tracks. But since we know that it is impossible
that
earthly humans arose at the same time as dinosaurs, * maybe space aliens or
humans 
from the future came to see the real Jurassic Park! * ;-)  [I'd love to hop
into the
Wayback Machine and go see them!]

I don't know about the rest of you, but looking at the concept of
creationism, I find 
it easier to imagine humanity inventing time travel in the next ten thousand
years.
Simplest of all is that dinosaurs made the tracks. Period.