The X-Files with Aaron Judkins - Conclusive Evidence for YEC!
Taking a break from the video series - Introducing Aaron Judkins - Author, archaeologist & host of Man vs Archaeology.
X Files: Part 1
In classifying the past, historians interpret the objects they find in line with the dogmatic evolutionary theory. The period during which bronze artifacts were manufactured they call the Bronze Age, and suggest that iron began being used much more recently—based on their claim that in the most ancient civilizations, metals were unknown.
Iron, steel and many other metals quickly oxidize and decay, much faster than stone does. Some metals such as bronze, which oxidize with much greater difficulty, may survive for longer than others. It is therefore perfectly natural that excavated objects made of bronze should be older and those of iron of a much more recent date. In addition, it’s not logical to maintain that any society able to produce bronze was unaware of iron, that a society with the technical knowledge to produce bronze did not use any other metals.
Bronze is obtained by adding tin, arsenic and antimony, with a small quantity of zinc, to copper. Anyone who creates bronze must have a working knowledge of such chemical elements as copper, tin, arsenic, zinc and antimony, know at what temperatures these are to be melted, and possess a kiln in which to melt and combine them. Without all this knowledge, it will be very difficult to produce a successful alloy.
To begin with, copper ore is found in old, hard rocks in powder or crystalline form (which is also referred to as “native copper”). A society that uses copper must first possess a level of knowledge to identify it in powder form in these rocks. It must then construct a mine to extract the copper, remove it, and carry it to the surface. It is clear that these things cannot be done using stone and wooden tools.
Copper ore must be introduced to red-hot flame in order for it to liquefy. The temperature needed to melt and refine copper is 1,984°F. There also needs to be a device or bellows to ensure a steady flow of air to the fire. Any society working with copper must construct a kiln able to produce such high heat and also make such equipment as crucibles and tongs for use with the furnace.
This is a brief summary of the technical infrastructure needed to work copper—which by itself, is too soft a metal to hold a sharp edge for long. Producing harder bronze by adding tin, zinc and other elements to copper is even more sophisticated, because every metal requires different processes. All these facts show that communities engaged in mining, producing alloys and metal-working must have possessed detailed knowledge. It is neither logical nor consistent to claim that people with such comprehensive knowledge would never have discovered iron.
On the contrary, archaeological discoveries show that the evolutionist claim that metal was unknown and not used in very ancient societies is untrue. Proof includes such findings as the remains of a ancient metallic spheres, an iron pot in supposed 300 million years old coal, fragments of textiles on clay dated to 27,000 years ago, and traces of metals such as magnesium and platinum, successfully melted in Europe only a few hundred years ago, in remains dating back a thousand years.
The London Artifact
London Artifact was found near London, Texas in Kimble County. The metal hammerhead is approximately six inches long with a nominal diameter of one inch. This seems somewhat small for a gross pounding instrument, suggesting that this tool was meant for fine work or soft metal.
The site is part of a large geographical zone called the Edwards Plateau. It primarily consists of Cretaceous rock. In June of 1934, Max Hahn discovered a rock, sitting loose on a rock ledge beside a waterfall outside London, Texas. Noticing that this weathered rock had wood protruding from it, he and family members cracked it open with a hammer and chisel, exposing the hammerhead to the light of day for the first time since the stone formed around it. To verify that the hammer was made of metal, they cut into one of the beveled sides with a file. In the resulting nick, bright, shiny iron was exposed. The bright metal in the nick is still there, with no detectable corrosion.
The density of the iron shows the interior metal to be very pure, with no bubbles. Modern industry cannot consistently produce iron castings with this quality, as evidenced by test results that show bubbles and density variations that have caused pump and valve bodies to break. The handle eye is oval shaped, and roughly 1″x1/2″. The density is about 10% greater near the surface. The white areas are most dense, and the dark areas are least dense. As previously stated, a file cut was made in one of the side edges in 1934, and has remained corrosion-free in the sixty-plus years since the artifact was discovered. In fact, the quality of the iron equals or exceeds the quality of any iron found in the modern world. The composition (chlorine fabricated with metallic iron) remains a puzzling enigma.
The wooden handle appears to have been broken off, then worn smooth where it protruded from the rock concretion. The dark area in the wood is where it has been coalified.
Iron Cup in Coal
Frank Kennard was working in the Municiple Electric Plant in Thomas Oklahomo. He found a chunk of coal to large to use and broke it with a sledge hammer. The pot fell out of the coal leaving an impression of the pot in the coal. Jim Stull, a co-worker, witnessed the event. He traced the coal back to the Wilburton mine of Oklahoma. On November 27, 1948 Frank wrote signed affidavit affirming to the facts of the discovery.
The Coal deposits of the Oklahoma mine are dated at suppposedly 312 million years old. The only way that this pot could have been found in the coal is if it was deposited there before the coal formed. Other human artifacts have been found in the same and other coal mines of Oklahoma. Some of these were miles below the surface. Other coal deposits have also produced man made artifacts around the world.
Brass Bell in Coal
In 1944, as a ten year old boy, Newton Anderson dropped a lump of coal in his basement and found that it contained this bell inside. The bituminous coal that was mined near his house in Upshur County West Virginia is supposed to be about 300 million years old! What is a brass bell with an iron clapper doing in coal ascribed to the Carboniferous Period? According to Norm Sharbaugh’s book Ammunition (which includes several “coal anecdotes”) the bell is an antediluvian artifact.
The Institute for Creation Research had the bell submitted to the lab at the University of Oklahoma. According to the Institute, the bell was delivered for analysis by the nuclear activation method.The nuclear activation analysis revealed that the bell contains a strange mix of metals, different from any known modern alloy, with an unusual mixture including copper, zinc, tin, arsenic, iodine, and selenium. While it is brass, it is not the brass alloy that has been used by our civilization since at least the rise of the Sumerian culture some six thousand years ago.
Genesis 4:22 states that Tubal-Cain was “an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron…” Perhaps when his civilization came to an end in the flood, this bell was buried with a mass of vegetation that became coal and ended up thousands of years later in Newt Anderson’s coal bin. The bell was prominently featured in the 1992 CBS docudrama production called Ancient Secrets of the Bible and is now part of the Genesis Park collection. Later on, Newton Anderson spent a great deal of time researching the demon atop the bell. He discovered similarities to the Babylonian Southwest Wind Demon and the Hindu deity Garuda. Garuda is sometimes depicted on top of bells, as is the Egyptian Isis. Demonic worship seems to take on similar forms in various cultures (like the Venus figurines from disparate lost cultures and the ancient fascination with pyramids), which doesn’t necessitate that they were culturally related. At our request, Mr. Anderson was examined by an expert polygraph specialist to further validate his claims.
Man vs. Archaeology has examined & studied these artifacts first hand; the London Artifact, the iron cup in coal, and the brass bell in coal. These scattered remains totally demolish the Rough Stone Age, Polished Stone Age, Bronze and Iron Age classifications. But a large part of these findings, after appearing in many scientific publications, have either been ignored by evolutionist scientists or else hidden away in museum basements. Unbelievable evolutionist tales have been presented as the history of mankind, instead of the true historical facts.
X-Files: Part 2
One
of the clearest areas of human activity where God has “confounded the
wise” (1 Corinthians 1:27) and “made wise the simple” (Psalm 19:7) is in
the area of creation evidence. This is especially true in the list of
tangible artifacts of evidence that I refer to as the “Creation X-Files”
owned by the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas. The official
academic position held by the secular establishment, and even by most
religious institutions, is that of evolutionary development over vast
periods of time.
Secular
scientist John Little admitted that “Evolution is the creation myth of
our age…A belief in evolution is a religion in itself.”[1]
In his introduction to a special edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species
evolutionist L.H. Matthews wrote: “Most biologist accept it (ie.
Evolution) as though it were a proven fact, although this conviction
rests upon circumstantial evidence, it forms a satisfactory faith on
which to base our interpretation of nature.”[2]
The “Creation X-Files” dispels the myth of evolution and exposes it to be a religion devoid of factual basis.
Evidence:
1. “…This
Mississippi Caddo Indian terra cotta dates to circa 1200 A.D., and
features a handle in the form of a baby dinosaur. The details are so
realistic that the markers of the pottery must have seen living
dinosaurs in order to produce such features.
2. “Cretaceous” Limestone with Alvis Delk Human Footprint and Theropod
Dinosaur Footprint…The sedimentary rock layer has been dated at 110 million years by evolutionary assignment, yet two separate laboratories have confirmed the compression features under each footprint, using Spiral CT scan techniques. Evolutionary Theory separates these life forms by 109 of the 110 million years. Evolution is hereby exposed to be in profound error.
3. “Cretaceous” Limestone with Human Fossil Finger discovered by Mrs. Hitt…Spiral
CT scans revealed the fingernail, cartilaginous ligaments, replaced
bone, and all three joints (medial, distal, and proximal). This simple, but specific, fossilized finger points (no pun intended) to untenable falsehoods in evolutionary theory.
4. “Cretaceous” Limestone O.W. Willett Human Footprint with a Pterosaur Footprint…
CT
scans revealed both footprints to be genuine. This artifact was removed
from the Park Ledge in the mid-1950’s before it was against the law to
do so. Remnants of six human footprints still remain on the ledge.
Numerous dinosaur footprints can be seen today in the immediate
vicinity. Evolution is once again falsified.
5.
The “London Artifact”; an iron hammer deposited in “Early Cretaceous”
rock near Texas. Discovered by Frank and Emma Hahn.London,
This
rock is dated according to the evolutionary timescale at 140 million
years old, yet this man-made artifact contains the compound FeO (iron
oxide) on the surface, and a portion of the handle is coalified. The
events of Noah’s Flood explain these details far better than can be
supported by evolution.
6. “Permian-Triassic” rock containing the A.M. Coffee Human Footprint…according
to evolution, human footprints did not evolve until a few hundred
thousand years ago, yet this rock is dated at 230 million years. Nine
eight-inch footprints in the rock series were discovered by Mr. Coffee. A
child’s footprint can be seen nearby. This evidence is beginning to
confound the wisest evolutionist.
7. “Pennsylvania Carboniferous” coal containing an Iron Pot discovered by Frank Canard in Oklahoma. The
coal from which the pot was extracted is dated evolutionary at 395
million years. The manmade artifact still has residue of coal adhering
to the inside bottom. If the pot is “modern” and intruded into the
massive sedimentary seam of coal, then no fossil or artifact found in
sedimentary deposits can be designated “ancient” in age. If the pot is
as old as the coal seam, then the Global Deluge explains how it got
there.
8. “Cambrian” Slate Stone containing the Meister Print, a human sandal print with embedded trilobite fossils. The embedded trilobites have been identified as Elrethia gengi, and are assigned an evolutionary age of 550 million years. The sandal print still bears depressions of the stitching along the sides. Wear on the outside of the heal area is consistent with human locomotion. This places man at the bottom
of the “Geologic Column”, and compresses the time factor to recent
co-habitation of all living creatures, from trilobites to man.
Conclusion…
A twenty-foot “Wall of Truth” (see below) has been erected at the Creation Evidence Museum (http://creationevidence.org)
featuring replicas of these artifacts in their appropriate places of
discovery. The actual artifacts are on display in the center of the
museum. Evidence of human artifacts deposited throughout the Geologic
Column destroys any hope of evolutionary interpretation. Creation truth
has confounded the “wise” and made “wise” the simple.
[1] John Little, “When Scientists are Unscientific”, New Scientist, 109 (1986), pp. 50-51
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