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Kuban Source: Neufeld, Brand and Chadwick, the Man Tracks Controversy

Brand received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1970 while working for Loma Linda University's La Sierra campus. That same same year, he was part of a creationist team from Loma Linda University which studied the Paluxy tracks. Berney Neufeld, Brand and Art Chadwick concluded that the tracks did not provide valid evidence for the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs.

Here is the section by Kuban:

Early Creationist Criticisms

Ironically, a creationist team from Loma Linda University who studied the tracks about the same time as Taylor came to very different conclusions. Based largely on field work in 1970, the Loma Linda team (consisting of Berney Neufeld, Leonard Brand, and Art Chadwick), pointed out that the alleged human footprints on the Taylor Site (which they called "Series 2") and nearby original McFall Site (their "Series 1") showed indications of tridactyl, dinosaurian digits.

The workers were puzzled by the elongate shapes of the tracks at the Taylor and McFall sites, which they tentatively attributed to erosion acting on typical bipedal dinosaur tracks. They noted, however, that the tridactyl traces at the anteriors undoubtedly indicated a dinosaurian, not a human, trackmaker. They concluded that the "man tracks" at the State Park Shelf were not tracks of any kind, but merely erosional markings that had been selectively highlighted with water or oil to appear more humanlike. The team also examined and cross sectioned several "man tracks" on loose blocks, and concluded that they were probable carvings, based on anatomic errors, problematic subsurface features, and the knowledge that such tracks had been carved in Glen Rose. The Loma Linda team’s overall conclusion was that there the Paluxy did not provide valid evidence for the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs (Neufeld, 1975, p. 75).

Draganits et al, India

Draganits et al do more than merely cite Brand, they present a paragraph describing his work and finish by saying that Brand's work provides an analogue by which to do further research.

TRACKWAY PRESERVATION

The lithology in which the Muth trackways are preserved is an unusual setting. Most fossil trackways occur in fine grained, finely laminated sediments. Sand, especially dry sand, is unsuitable for their preservation unless a suitable binding agent is present, such as water (from dew, a light rain fall, or saline surf-spray), infiltrating clay minerals (McKeever, 1991), or algal slime (Gevers and Twomey, 1982).

Brady (1939, 1947) and Sadler (1993) conducted neoichnological investigations with arthropods, but did not consider trackways produced subaqueously. Brand (1979, 1996) carried out extensive studies on trackways produced by modern amphibians and reptiles with different substrates, slope angles, and moisture contents, under both subaqueous and subaerial conditions. Different substrate conditions caused considerable variation in the appearance of trackways produced by one species. The trackways produced by uphill-walking salamanders on sloping dry sand in Brand’s (1979, fig. 6a, 6b) study are similar in their track depth and shape of pushback mounds to some uphill Palmichnium trackways found on foresets in the Muth Formation (Fig. 5B). Although the producers were different, these neoichnological studies provide an analogue for the mechanism of production of some of the Muth

Palmichnium trackways.

Chipmunks

Between 1970 and 1987, Brand reported on the tree nests and vocalisations of California chipmunks.

Basic Outline

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Leonard R. Brand

I. Lead

II. Early life

III. Career development at Loma Linda University

IV. Scientific Research

V. Young Earth Creationist

VI. Philosophy of Science

VII. Inter-Relationships

1. The scientific community

2. The creationist community

3. The Seventh-day Adventist community

Outline Comments

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Annotated Bibliography

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Leonard R. Brand

Our intention is to present Leonard R. Brand, not as a notable academic, but as an interesting and unusual person. The articles seek to be biographical.

I. Lead

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Leonard Brand is a young earth creationist, zoologist and paleobiologist. He is the Chair Professor of Loma Linda University Department of Earth and Biological Sciences.

As a Creationist, he champions interventionism, a view of history holds that there is intelligent intervention in history. His philosophical notion of respectful dialogue has been welcomed by advocates on both sides of the creation–evolution controversy. He challenges his fellow creationists to use caution when making scientific claims.

As a research scientist, he has had his findings published in various peer-reviewed journals. He has studied the vocalizations of chipmunks, the reproductive biology of mice, and the taphonomy of whales in Peru and turtles in Wyoming. His research on fossil tracks in the Grand Canyon has been published in Geology, but his conclusions have been challenged by some critics.

Annotations for the Lead

Comments on the Annotations

• The Creation Sabbath citation format has been corrected. The main site has been corrected as well. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 05:09, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Pfandl, an associate of the SDA General Conference's Biblical Research Institute, quotes from Brand's book, Faith, Reason and Earth's history. He writes:

Leonard Brand (biologist at Loma Linda University). In the introduction to his book Faith, Reason, and Earth History he writes that "a central thesis of this book is that a creationist can indeed be an effective scientist."19 He champions interventionism, a view of history that recognizes the important role of intelligent intervention in history. In the chapter on faith and science he says in regard to geology, "Science has proposed a theory that fossil-bearing geologic deposits have accumulated over hundreds of millions of years.... 1 conclude that the Bible indicates that current geological theory, in certain respects, is an incorrect interpretation of the data. Our task is to go back to the research lab and develop a more correct theory." 20

• An older edition of the Numbers book is online. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 11:22, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

II. Early life

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Leonard Brand has been a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church since his early teens. He was baptized in 1952 while living in Kansas.

In 1964, as a senior biology student at La Sierra College, he received a $50 book scholarship from a scholarship fund established by Riverside naturalist and author Edmund C. Jaeger. He was one of only two students to receive the award in that first year it was offered.

Brand received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1970 while working for Loma Linda University's La Sierra campus. That same same year, he was part of a creationist team from Loma Linda University which studied the Paluxy tracks. Berney Neufeld, Brand and Art Chadwick concluded that the tracks did not provide valid evidence for the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs.

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Comments on the Annotations

All four of the citations in this section are secondary sources. Three are affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church which is Brand's affiliation. The facts given are not disputed. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 12:51, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

• Re: the citation for his Cornell PhD degree has many non-Adventist usable sources. Let's find one. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 12:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

• Comment of Section Quality

This section needs lots of work. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 12:57, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

V. Young Earth Creationist

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Seventh-day Adventist theologian Fritz Guy (1989) describes the scientific difficulties creationists face. He cites Leonard Brand as admitting the problem,

Another difficulty is the fact that, as of now, the preponderance of scientific evidence points to a very old earth and a gradual development of life forms. Occasionally this is implicitly admitted: "Creationists and flood geologists recognize that if their theory is true, there must be some significant phenomena yet to be discovered."

Comments on the Annotations

This Guy quote is a third party source documenting Brand's practice of admitting to scientific difficulties. This quote could be used in the Philosophy of Science section of the main article. Spectrum, independent from SDA organizational control tracks Adventist issues and reports on them in a scholarly manner.