It is surprising in itself that fossil footprints were found in such incredibly ancient rocks, but even more extraordinary traces of the past were found in equally ancient rocks - fossil footprints.
In 1922, mining engineer and geologist John Reid was looking for fossils in Nevada. To his amazement, he found a fossil print of the back half of a human shoe. The outsole was clearly defined in the breed.
The proof was the visible stitch imprints: along the edge of the sole "there was a well-imprinted sewing thread that fastened the welt to the sole." There was another line of stitches on the sole itself, and there was a dent in the center of the heel - just like it would have been when wearing shoes.
The fossil print was taken by Reid to New York and shown to a geologist at Columbia University and three professors at the American Museum of Natural History. All of them came to the conclusion that the imprint belonged to the Triassic period (which was on Earth 213–248 million years ago). They also unanimously agreed that it was a “totally amazing imitation” of the shoe. They did not dare to go further than this.
Part of a fossilized shoe sole found in rock over 213 million years old. The stitch pattern can be seen under the magnifying glass. The only known photograph was published in a New York newspaper in 1922.
Microscopic analysis, carried out by an expert from the Rockefeller Institute, showed that due to the complex bends and curls of the thread used for the sewing, we can say that it was a fossil man-made object. But science has dismissed this finding as a "whim of nature." She will not be mentioned in any fossil book. Not a single specialist will talk about it. A photograph taken in 1922 is all that remains of it today.
In more recent times - in June 1968 - William Meister found in Utah near Antelope Springs a second shoe print in a rock that is the same age as the Cambrian explosion. This find is also very difficult to dismiss. While searching for fossils, Meister split a piece of silty shale two inches thick, 505-590 million years old, inside which a sandal-like imprint was found - just over ten inches long and three and a half inches wide.
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As one would expect, scientists aware of this find refuse to take it seriously, although in this case there is an amazing and unusual detail that makes it very difficult to write off this find as a whim of nature or a fake. The front part of the sandal, under the weight that fell on it sometime many millions of years ago, was crushed by a small trilobite - a mollusk, already extinct 280 million years ago. The dent he left is clearly visible.
There was another trilobite on the heel, which apparently crawled or fell on the flat sandal print after it had been left in the rock. This is strong evidence that this fossil find is not just a geological curiosity - and appears to be strong evidence of both her age and that she is a fossil sandal print - or something closely resembling her. form - which stepped into the silt many millions of years ago.
A fossil footprint, apparently left by a shoe, found in 1968 in Utah, in a layer of rock dating back over 500 million years. A small fossil trilobite on the heel got caught in the footprint after it was left; another, on the finger, was crushed under the weight of the body of the creature that left this imprint.
Scientist and author of the books, Dr. Richard Thompson, who visited Meister to study this fossil print, reported that "a careful examination of the print gave no reason to doubt its authenticity." That is, in everything except dating.
Ancient humanity
Although some readers may disagree, in the face of such facts it seems reasonable, even logical, to admit the possibility that intelligent beings walked around our planet millions of years ago.
Perhaps humanity arose very early and evolved many times in the past, created a culture, a civilization, but became a witness to its destruction as a result of some major cataclysm. The most ancient legends that have come down to us tell of the periodic destruction of mankind over long periods of time.
The oldest Indian books, the Vedas, which are believed to be the most ancient human traditions, speak of countless centuries of human existence, the smallest unit of calculation of which is Kali-yuga, equal to a period of 432,000 years. One Yuga period is 4,320,000 years. A thousand of these yugas form a kalpa - "the day of Brahma" - which is practically identical to modern calculations of the age of the Earth.
Every ancient tradition contains a mixture of truth and fiction. Perhaps this legend is at least partially true?
Messages and reports like the ones we have just looked at do not, of course, help any party in the ongoing debate between those who believe in the evolution of humanity and those who believe in divine creation.
However, these anomalous data have another real meaning - they indicate the inconsistency of the position of the official guardians of modern scientific theory. For a theory that needs evidence to be rejected for its survival is not a theory that deserves to be defended.