Human Artifacts
At various times and places, man-made objects have been found encased
in coal. Examples include a thimble (a), an iron pot (b), an iron
instrument (c) an 8-karat gold chain (d), three throwing-spears (e),
and a metallic vessel inlaid with silver (f). Other "out-of-place
artifacts" have been found inside deeply buried rocks: nails (g), a
screw (h), a strange coin (i) a tiny ceramic doll (j), and other
objects of obvious human manufacture (k). By evolutionary dating
techniques, these objects would be hundreds of millions of years older
than man. Again, something is wrong.
a. J. Q. Adams, "Eve's Thimble," American Antiquarian, Vol. 5, October
1883, pp. 331-332.
b. Wilbert H. Rusch, Sr., "Human Footprints in Rocks," Creation
Research Society Quarterly, Vol. 7, March 1971, pp. 201-202.
c. John Buchanan, "Discovery of an Iron Instrument Lately Found
Imbedded in a Natural Seam of Coal in the Neighbourhood of Glasgow,"
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, Vol. 1, Part
2, Section IV, 1853.
d. "A Necklace of a Prehistoric God," Morrisonville Times
(Morrisonville, Illinois), 11 June 1891, p. 1.
e. Robin Dennell, "The World's Oldest Spears," Nature, Vol. 385, 27
February 1997, pp. 767-768.
Hartmut Thieme, "Lower Palaeolithic Hunting Spears from Germany,"
Nature, Vol. 385, 27 February 1997, pp. 807-810.
f. "A Relic of a By-Gone Age," Scientific American, Vol. 7, 5 June
1852, p. 298.
g. David Brewster, "Queries and Statements Concerning a Nail Found
Imbedded in a Block of Sandstone Obtained from Kingoodie (Mylnfield)
Quarry, North Britain," reported to the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1844.
Rene Noorbergen, Secrets of the Lost Races (New York: The Bobbs-
Merrill Co., Inc., 1977), p. 42.
h. Ibid.
i. J. R. Jochmans, "Strange Relics from the Depths of the Earth,"
Bible-Science Newsletter, January 1979, p. 1.
j. Robert E. Gentet and Edward C. Lain, "The Nampa Image-An Ancient
Artifact?" Creation Research Society Quarterly, Vol. 35, March 1999,
pp. 203-210.
G. Frederick Wright, Man and the Glacial Period (New York: D. Appleton
and Co., 1897), pp. 297-300.
G. Frederick Wright, "The Idaho Find," American Antiquarian, Vol. 2,
1889, pp. 379-381.
G. Frederick Wright, "An Archaeological Discovery in Idaho,"
Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 7, 1890, pp. 235-238.
k. Frank Calvert, "On the Probable Existence of Man during the Miocene
Period," Anthropological Institute Journal, Vol. 3, 1873, pp. 127-129.
J. B. Browne, "Singular Impression in Marble," The American Journal of
Science and Arts, January 1831, p. 361.
Techniques That Argue for an Old Earth Are Either Illogical or Are
Based on Unreasonable Assumptions.
To estimate a date prior to the beginning of written records, one must
assume that the dating clock has operated at a known rate, that the
clock's initial setting is known, and that the clock has not been
disturbed. These three assumptions are almost always unstated,
overlooked, or invalid.
http://www.creationscience.com/
.
|
