Dinosaurs and Man

[Cyberman]

"There is an infinite variety of ways in which, since 1859, the general concept of evolution might have been demolished. Consider the fossil record--a little known resource in Darwin's day. The unequivocal discovery of a fossil population of horses in Precambrian rocks would disprove evolution." -Steven M. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University.

Don't you get it? If the human prints are found in cretaceous limestone thought to be millions of years old, evolution would be demolished. The entire fossil-dating methods would be officially useless. There would be a lot of angry people who wasted their life-savings to earn an education based on errors and lies. Millions of tax-payer money would be wasted as well.

Incorrect. You are conflating two completely different scenarios. Stanley's reference to horses in the Precambrian demolishing evolution references the fact that such Precambrian fossils that are available are of primarily simple single-celled sea creatures. After the Great Oxygen Catastrophe, in which the levels of oxygen waste produced by the sea-dwelling creatures began to overtake the levels of atmospheric gases - literally the first great pollution event - life that could metabolise that oxygen suddenly took off evolutionarily, since they had the advantage of producing energy much more efficiently. Multi-cellular organisms could now appear, some of which went on to invade the land and, barring extinction events, never looked back.

Were human footprints confirmed to be among dinosaur footprints - millions of years after the above events - all it would 'prove' is that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. The human evolutionary history would be revised, certainly, and more than a few textbooks would have to be rewritten, but it's hardly demolished.

Anyway, all this is moot since the evidence you desperately want to exist, even if it actually does exist, hasn't yet been put on the table.

And what if a team of archaeologists went to Mt. Ararat and videotaped their findings of Noah's Ark, and it was televised, and carbon dating proved it to be roughly 4,000 years old, and it was exactly the size the Bible said it was. What then?

Ok... let's suppose such a scenario really did happen, but the carbon dating results gave a figure of considerably more than 4000 years. Or considerably less. What then?