The May 1939 Natural History magazine article was the first and last time Bird mentioned the human tracks in his writings of the Paluxy fossil tracks but that was all it took. A geologist and member of one of the first Creationist organizations, the Deluge Geological Society, named Clifford L. Burdick was inspired by the article and decided to investigate the Glen Rose tracks.
Burdick began his search for the human prints he saw in the article taken from the store front window in 1945 and managed to locate them in a small museum in Arizona. Later in 1950 he published a short article entitled “When GIANTS Roamed the Earth: Their Fossil Footprints Still Visible!” in the Seventh Day Adventist periodical Signs of the Times.
Burdick continued to research and document the tracks throughout his lifetime. Footprints, both dinosaur and human, were found and extracted from the river bed. The primary reason they were extracted were because when exposed to the weather they were subject to serious erosion due to the carbonic acid that built up on them. They would be preserved if extracted.
Burdick continued to write and speak on the “giant man tracks” that existed in the river bed and in 1961 photographs taken by Burdick of the tracks appeared in the book “The Genesis Flood” by John Whitcomb and Henry Morris. This book was admitted by Ken Ham to be the inspiration for the start of the modern creation science movement and eventually the popular ministry called Answers in Genesis. Burdick, seen here, is holding one of the human tracks and dinosaur tracks he obtained from the AZ museum. However, due to pressure from skeptics and aetheists the tracks were claimed to be carvings and the pictures were removed from later editions of “The Genesis Flood”.