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A discovery made over half a century ago in Antelope Springs, Utah, continues to raise eyebrows in the scientific community. In 1968, amateur fossil hunter William J. Meister claimed to have found what appears to be a fossilized human footprint.
The footprint, reportedly about the size of a US men’s size 13 (approximately 3.5″ wide by 10.25″ long), stunned onlookers and researchers alike due to its impossible timing. If genuine, it would imply that a human stepped on a living trilobite hundreds of millions of years before the emergence of homo sapiens.
Trilobites, ancient marine arthropods related to modern crabs and shrimps, went extinct long before any hominids are known to have evolved. The notion that someone wearing footwear could have existed during the Cambrian period contradicts everything currently accepted about the evolutionary timeline.
“This amazing find,” as the article recalls, was publicly presented in 1973 during a creation-evolution debate at California State University in Sacramento. Reverend Boswell, a member of the creationist team, stated: “I have here something that pretty much destroys the entire geological column. It has been studied by three laboratories around the world and it’s been tested and found valid.”
“These particular strata are dated Cambrian, supposedly 500 million years extinct before man arrived on the face of the earth.” Boswell added.
Shortly after Meister’s find, Dr. Clifford Burdick, a consulting geologist from Tucson, Arizona, discovered what appeared to be a child’s barefoot impression in shale, also in Antelope Springs. The impression, roughly six inches long, featured spreading toes and lacked an arch, consistent with a young child who had never worn shoes.
Well that certainly would change things. Is everything we know about human history wrong?
