BIBLICAL & SCIENTIFIC ANSWERS

What does it take to form a fossil of a footprint? Fossils of footprints and trackways are called “trace fossils”—the preservation of a creature’s behaviors or activities rather than the creature itself. There have been an abundance of trace fossils discovered over the years. For example: Last year, I wrote about a massive sauropod trackway uncovered in the UK; in that same year, I wrote about 66 footprints from 47 dinosaurs discovered in a boulder in an Australian high school foyer; and in 2024, I wrote about matching dinosaur footprints found on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Who were the Nephilim? Genesis 6 opens with a description of the sons of God and daughters of men, then mentions the intriguingly named Nephilim. “Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then Yahweh said, ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever because he indeed is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.’ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown” (Genesis 6:1–4).October 14, 2026