Consider standing in an ancient river bed and suddenly stumbling across hundreds of massive dinosaur footprints, preserved as if the creatures had just walked by yesterday. That’s exactly what scientists have found—over 260 dinosaur tracks spread across both South America and Africa.

Dinosaur footprints are rare because they require a perfect chain of events: soft, wet mud to record them, rapid burial to protect them, and layers of sediment to seal them off from erosion. Without those conditions, the footprints would have disappeared soon after they were made.

As a creationist, I see discoveries like this as powerful confirmations of the global flood described in Genesis. This was not just a local catastrophe, but a worldwide event that reshaped the earth and left behind evidence we’re still uncovering today.

The world was once a single landmass—what scientists call Pangea. But then came the moment Scripture records: “all the springs of the great deep burst forth.” Accordingly, this brought forth volcanic eruptions, which transported silt, minerals and other fine particles for preserving the fossil prints.

While the footprints don’t extend far, the geologic region they belong to spans continents. In Africa, the region stretches across nearly 1,100 miles. In South America, the tracks are part of a formation covering about 140,000 square miles of the Northeast Region of Brazil.

Creationists and evolutionists alike agree that this area once connected South America and Africa—a final pathway dinosaurs used before the continents split apart. But here’s where interpretations divide. Secular geologists dismiss the global flood, not because there’s no evidence, but because it doesn’t fit their worldview. To acknowledge a worldwide flood would be to acknowledge divine judgment—and ultimately, God Himself. That’s why the debate isn’t simply about rocks, mud, or footprints. It’s about perspective: a biblical worldview versus a secular one.

For me, these tracks aren’t just interesting relics from the past. They are testaments—frozen in stone—that affirm what God has already revealed in His Word.

Genesis records it plainly: “And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.” Genesis 7:10-12

These footprints are not silent. They speak—pointing us back to the reality of the flood, and ultimately, to the authority of God’s Word.