Even if paluxy tracks were indeed made by man and dinosaurs living at roughly the same time, it still does not disprove evolution. It only proves one of the many possible trajectories evolution could have taken, the one which we thought were actually taken, was not the one it actually took.
Indeed I would not fall out of my seat if it turns out that some unknown lineage of dinosaurs did indeed survive to coexist with man. It would be extremely surprising because we have hitherto searched so long for evidence in this direction and found none. But it would not require any alteration to my grasp of fundamentally how life works and how evolution produced the biosphere on earth. Indeed exactly analogous things - a group of creatures previously thought to be have arisen and fallen between two geological date markers, and leter found to have actually arisen tens of millions of years earlier and lingered on hundreds of million years longer - have happened. Take the Cambrian equivalent of dinosaurs, the anamalocarids. This group, an sister taxa to arthropods, looked like some hellish blend of praying mantis, menta ray, and lobster, and were like dinosaurs by far the largest animal on earth in its time and the apex predators in its environment. They were the marine arthropodian equivalent of brontosaurus and tyrannosaurs. It was long thought they arose at the beginning of cambrian and died out at the end of Cambrian. For almost 100 years no fossils were found to contradict this assessment of their tenure. But in just the last few years, careful analysis of one fossil found in Germany revealed this remarkable group, appearently related to the Arthropoda yet lacking many of the defining traits of Arthropoda, indeed existed for 100 million years longer, and still thrived in Ordovician.
To disprove evolution, one would need to establish independent origin for each and every inter-species variation of genome found in life on earth.
To bark at paluxy, you are not only not barking up the write tree, you are barking in an inappropriate orientation near a blade of something that won't qualify even as weed.
Indeed I would not fall out of my seat if it turns out that some unknown lineage of dinosaurs did indeed survive to coexist with man. It would be extremely surprising because we have hitherto searched so long for evidence in this direction and found none. But it would not require any alteration to my grasp of fundamentally how life works and how evolution produced the biosphere on earth. Indeed exactly analogous things - a group of creatures previously thought to be have arisen and fallen between two geological date markers, and leter found to have actually arisen tens of millions of years earlier and lingered on hundreds of million years longer - have happened. Take the Cambrian equivalent of dinosaurs, the anamalocarids. This group, an sister taxa to arthropods, looked like some hellish blend of praying mantis, menta ray, and lobster, and were like dinosaurs by far the largest animal on earth in its time and the apex predators in its environment. They were the marine arthropodian equivalent of brontosaurus and tyrannosaurs. It was long thought they arose at the beginning of cambrian and died out at the end of Cambrian. For almost 100 years no fossils were found to contradict this assessment of their tenure. But in just the last few years, careful analysis of one fossil found in Germany revealed this remarkable group, appearently related to the Arthropoda yet lacking many of the defining traits of Arthropoda, indeed existed for 100 million years longer, and still thrived in Ordovician.
To disprove evolution, one would need to establish independent origin for each and every inter-species variation of genome found in life on earth.
To bark at paluxy, you are not only not barking up the write tree, you are barking in an inappropriate orientation near a blade of something that won't qualify even as weed.
