| Some years ago I read of the well documented | | | | Many human artifacts and human skeletal remains |
| archaeological find of a hammer head and part of a | | | | have been found embedded in coal seams and other |
| shaft found embedded in Cretaceous sandstone near | | | | fossil bearing strata that is supposed by evolutionists to |
| London Texas. It was found in stone not clay or soil. | | | | be millions of years old. I have in my possession |
| The sandstone in which the hammer was found | | | | pictures of several of these. |
| contained Lower Cretaceous fossils of the kind that | | | | For further documentation of this I refer you to a book |
| would be dated by old earth evolutionists at roughly | | | | written from a nonchristian perspective entitled |
| 140 million years old. Yet it is impossible for a hammer | | | | "Forbidden Archaeology - The Hidden History of the |
| or any human artifact to that old. | | | | Human Race." The authors are Michael A. Cremo and |
| Think of it - a hammer found in a fossil bed!!! This | | | | Richard L. Thompson. Other books on this subject but |
| ancient hammer is - as we shall soon see - only one | | | | written from a Christian perspective are "Footprints |
| of hundreds of human artifacts found in fossil bearing | | | | and the Stones of Time" by Dr. Carl Baugh & Dr. |
| stone. | | | | Clifford Wilson and "Why Do Men Believe Evolution |
| The veracity of the hammer find is enhanced by the | | | | Against All Odds" by Dr. Carl Baugh. |
| fact that the hammer head is composed of 96.6% iron, | | | | In these books you will find documentation of objects |
| 2.6% chlorine and .75% sulfur. Chlorine is nonmetallic | | | | such as a hollow metal tube found at Saint-Jean de |
| and is near impossible to bond with iron under today's | | | | Livet, France in a supposed 65 million year old chalk |
| atmospheric conditions. | | | | bed. A petrified shoe sole found embedded in Triassic |
| In the days before the biblical flood of Noah, the | | | | rock in Nevada was discovered by John T. Reid, an |
| atmosphere was very different than it is today. (I will | | | | engineer and geologist. This Triassic rock is claimed to |
| mention in passing that the flood of Noah is also | | | | be 213 - 248 million years old. There are literally |
| described in dozens of other ancient histories and this | | | | hundreds of such finds described in the above books. |
| confirms the reality of this catastrophic event.) | | | | Some of these artifacts and skeletal remains are on |
| The pre-flood earth was surrounded by a vapor | | | | display at the Creation Evidences Museum in Glen |
| canopy that is described in Genesis 1:6-8. The vapor | | | | Rose Texas. |
| canopy shielded the earth from the harmful rays of | | | | How do we explain the discovery of human artifacts |
| the sun that produce positive ions. An atmosphere with | | | | hundreds of feet beneath the surface in fossil bearing |
| low ionic contamination would allow iron and chlorine to | | | | rock formations? |
| be bonded by primitive metallurgical methods. Thus we | | | | The Bible explains it all very clearly. During the flood of |
| infer that the hammer is a genuine pre-flood artifact! | | | | Noah the vapor canopy above the atmosphere rained |
| The hammer was embedded in silt laid down during | | | | down on the earth and the fountains of the great deep |
| the flood of Noah's day. The silt later hardened into | | | | (subterranean fissures) were broken up (Genesis |
| stone. To see an example of this in our own day we | | | | 7:11-12). The worldwide deluge dislodged trillions of tons |
| need look no further than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. | | | | of sediment and laid down the fossil beds during this |
| The effluent of the Mt. St. Helens eruption has formed | | | | brief period of time. |
| a miniature grand canyon that has already hardened | | | | The earth is young. Earth's age is measured in |
| into stone. I'm not referring to the volcanic magma but | | | | thousands, not billions of years. Evolution did not have |
| rather to the water borne silt released during the | | | | anywhere near enough time to take place. Atheistic |
| eruption that contained certain minerals that caused it | | | | evolution is a lie. |
| to harden into sandstone. Stone was formed from | | | | The book of Genesis gives an accurate history of |
| water borne minerals resulting from the Mt. St. Helens | | | | early earth! The Bible is God's holy book and we would |
| eruption in the same way that stone was formed | | | | do well to give heed to it. |
| during and after the flood of Noah. | | | | |