We haven’t done one of these Great Mysteries of the World in a long time so let’s welcome in the weekend with one. I had never heard of this one, but Erik explains it well. First, a bit of backstory:

However, the Permian strata has been dated from 290 to 248 million years ago- millions of years before animals, birds, dinosaurs, and yes, man, was supposed to exist. How then can these prints be explained?

In July 1992, the Smithsonian Magazine had an article on these tracks called “Petrified Footprints: A Puzzling Parade of Permian Beasts”.^[1] The magazine acknowledged the mystery, acknowledging “what paleontologists like to call, ‘problematica.’” It described what appeared to be large mammal and bird tracks that, “evolved long after the Permian period, yet these tracks are clearly Permian.”

While it is commendable that MacDonald and the Smithsonian clearly acknowledge the existence of these tracks in a strata that contradicts the current evolutionary theory, it is noteworthy that they highlight only the mammal and bird prints, and don’t mention the human footprint found with them.

Interestingly enough, since these tracks have been discovered, evolutionists have not tried to argue their authenticity or debunk them. Nor have they tried to argue that the footprint isn’t human. (Often they claim that it’s a print that just “looks like” a human footprint.) Their very silence is deafening.

Here’s Erik’s take:

Me: There’s a fascination ancient mystery known as the Ancient Footprint. In the picture that I have that you can look up under Google, you can see this human footprint that’s like the one you’d see on a beach or in the mud, but the deal is, the anatomy of it is that of a modern human being, and it’s fossilized in stone estimated to be about 290 million years old. So people are at a loss to explain how this modern footprint could have possibly been cast in the Permian Strata that, again, is about 240 to 290 million years old. This is long before man or even birds and dinosaurs existed on the planet according to current scientific thinking. So what’s up with this?

Erik: Thanks for the history lesson, Mom.

Me: There will be a pop quiz later.

Erik: Think about how time isn’t linear.

Me: Okay. Go on.

Erik: And so they’re so shocked that there’s this footprint that they claim to be in a time when man didn’t exist. Is there really a time when man didn’t exist? No there’s not. So you take some of the concepts of String Theory and how time folds in on itself and kind of twists and encompasses itself. This format can be used for, let’s say, your energy—

Jamie (to Erik): Explain “Your energy” a little bit better.

(Pause)

Jamie: Use “soul.”

Erik: If this format can be used to explain —

(Pause)

Jamie (to Erik): I don’t care. You can hit the restart button.

I chuckle.

Jamie: I finally get to tease him.

Erik: String Theory, quantum physics, these can be used to explain how the soul travels through lives. Remember, time isn’t linear so there’s no “reincarnation.” There is no birth, growing old and then dying. These are all happening intertwined and mixed up with each other. So there are huge possibilities of traveling through time and space energetically. You couldn’t use the physical body to live in, but you can travel through multiple dimensions and multiple time periods. It wouldn’t be traveling back into time or traveling forward into time because both of those words suggest that time is linear, but it isn’t.

Jamie (laughing): He’s showing me his foot, and he’s wiggling his toes.

Me (joking): Does it smell?

Jamie: I hope not! I’ve had enough smells today [from Erik.]

We both laugh.

Erik (wiggling his foot): It is a human foot, but it wasn’t created—

(Long pause)

Jamie (to Erik, frustrated): Aw, you messed me up, man! I can’t understand that.

Erik: It wasn’t created in that era. It’s not like a human—

Jamie (shaking her head): That contradicts itself, Erik.

Erik: It’s not like a human walked at that time, but because we see time as being linear and we’re doing those tests on the stone, it shows up as being in that timeframe.

Jamie (puzzled): Doesn’t that contradict itself?

Me: So what’s going on? This human was doing what? He was obviously walking. Was he walking in, I mean, I don’t know.

I’m beyond confused.

Me: Dumb it down!

Erik: He was streaking, naked as a jaybird running.

Jamie and I laugh.

Me: Now, I know the English language is very difficult for you, Erik, because it is sequential, but try your best because I don’t understand how that footprint got there, not just as far as when it was dated to 290 million years ago, but also how did it get there? What were the circumstances? Why is it in the Permian Strata?

Erik: Okay, Mom. Okay, Mom. If I had to say it in linear terms, I’d say that it was a future human being who traveled back in time and walked on the ground not meaning to interact or wreak havoc or change “history,” and he left a memento.

Me: Mement-toe!  Very good.

Erik: That’s how I’d describe it, but that totally sucks because it doesn’t give you the true essence of how it’s happening. It’s not sequential. It’s not linear. It folds in on itself, and that’s why [he] could travel in time and be in that era and have the body—

Jamie (shaking her head): You’re losing me, Erik.

Me: Dumb it down!

Erik: You can be in that era, that slice of time, but not interact with the environment because you’re a different vibrational being. My metaphor is like how I interact with you guys. I’m here, but I’m not leaving at “print” since we’re talking about footprints. But there are occasions when I will leave a smell, or I’ll knock something over, or I’ll make something happen, and I cross that dimensional plane. This is an example of that.

Me: So the future man, future in air quotes—

Jamie: He was rolling his eyes.

Me: I know; I know. So this future man left a print just like you spun the bottle by [your niece] Arleen’s bed.

Erik: Yes.

Me: Okay. That’s my grand daughter, everybody.

Erik: My action didn’t end up being imprinted in a piece of stone for centuries.

Me: Fascinating.

Erik (Leaning forward with his elbow on his knee): You know what I think about the English language?

Me: It’s very clear because you’ve said it many times.

Jamie (laughing): He’s pretending to choke himself.

I laugh.

Erik: It stifles you so much, and it’ll be exciting because as our knowledge grows, our language is going to have to change. We’re going to have to start teaching our kids not to use the term, “reincarnation” but “incarnation.” Some of these simple things are going to have to go.

Me: Yeah, but you need to have linear time to have cause and effect. Cause and effect is very important for learning like, “I do this, and these are the consequences.” So it does serve a purpose.

Erik: Yes, with you humans. Okay, next question, Mom.