Evolution: Nature just won't cooperate

Recognizable modern human footprint fossils have been found in Crete dating to almost two million years before current evolution theory holds they evolved:

Footprint find on Crete may push back date humans began to walk upright
HUMAN-like footprints have been found on an ancient sea shore. They shouldn’t be there. They’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This story was also carried by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, so lest anyone think this is a thinly-disguised creationist fake news report, well, no. And don't you just love that final headline: "They’re in the wrong place at the wrong time." How dare nature show up when it's not welcome!

Anyway, here is the summary. A Polish palaeontologist, Gerard Gierlinski, was on vacay on Crete in 2002 when he found the footprints. He has taken more than a decade to analyse his find. Human footprints are absolutely distinctive in the hominid family, in fact among all animalia. Here is why:

Photo (h) shows the bottom of a modern human foot. Photo (i) is of one of the footprints in Crete.

The prints have been dated to 5.7 million years old

... using foraminifera (analysis of marine microfossils) as well as their position beneath a distinctive sedimentary rock layer created when the Mediterranean Sea dried up about 5.6 million years ago.

But evolution theory holds that no footprints like that should have been left anywhere until only four million years ago.

Humans have parallel toes with no claws. As the other photos show, bears have parallel toes, but definitely have claws. Non-human primates such as monkey and apes have no claws, but their feet do not have parallel toes nor is the big toe enlarged as on humans. In fact, primates' feet resemble their hands a great deal.

Furthermore, only humans have balls of their feet. Only human have a significantly arched foot. Primates have neither.

So how did modern footprints wind up on Crete 1.7 million years "early?" No one knows now but I assume that focused research will be forthcoming on site.

My daughter and I joked about writing a mad scientist book whose subject invents a time machine that he uses to leave anachronisms throughout history. Such as a Swiss ring watch in a sealed Ming Dynasty tomb. Or these footprints.

"Ah, they found the Crete footprints! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!"