The Catastrophic Theory Regarding History

First, there is strong evidence that one or more times prior to our present recorded history, mankind achieved a high level of civilization, only to have nearly all traces of it annihilated by widespread destruction; caused either by natural or man made events or perhaps both.  Second and yet conversely, the origin of human beings is currently accepted by the majority of scientists, to have appeared as a species no more than 2 or 3 million years ago. Additionally, the history of mankind such as he is known today does not extend beyond 10,000 years.

Bold statements indeed, but there is a good deal of physical evidence that will support the first hypothesis or theory and will not support the second.  For example in 1944, a ten year old boy, by the name of Newton Anderson dropped a lump of coal in his basement which broke it in half; to his surprise he found that it contained the bell displayed above. The bituminous coal that contained the bell had been mined near his house in Upshur County West Virginia and is supposed to be about 300 million years old! So what, you might ask, is a brass bell with an iron clapper doing in a block of coal?  Most any geologist will tell us that this particular type of coal was formed during the Carboniferous Period 259 to 359 million years ago but they won’t venture a guess as to how the bell got there.   

Some experts like Norm Sharbaugh reported in his 1997 book titled “Ammunition”, that the bell referenced above is an ancient artifact made sometime before Noah’s Flood as told in the Book of Genesis of the Christian Bible. The Institute for Creation Research had the bell submitted to the lab at the University of Oklahoma, once there a nuclear activation analysis revealed that the bell contains an unusual mix of metals that’s different from any known modern alloy produced today.

The bell was featured prominently in a 1992 CBS docudrama titled “Ancient Secrets of the Bible” and is now part of the Genesis Park collection.

And yes, years later, Mr. Anderson was examined by an expert polygraph specialist to validate the assertion of his youth. The official report can be seen HERE.  Bottom line: He told the truth.

A woman, in Illinois, was reported to have found a gold chain in a chunk of coal which she broke open in 1891; this story was first reported in the June 11, 1891 edition of the Morrisonville, Ill. Times. The chain was made of eight carat gold and weighed eight penny-weights (192 grains or 1 ⁄ 5 of a troy ounce).

A small iron cuboid (cube like) mass was found in a block of coal in Wolfsegg am Hausruck, a municipality in the district of Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria,  back in 1885.

In 1912 an electric company employee in Arkansas broke open a large lump of coal, revealing a man-made iron pot. The original coal bed was reportedly from the mid Pennsylvanian Age and according to conventional geology is nearly 300 million years old.

Near Lawn Ridge, 20 miles north of Peoria, Illinois, in August of 1870, three men were drilling an artesian well, at a depth of over a hundred feet; the pump brought a small metal medallion to the surface.

One of the workmen, Mr. Jacob W. Moffit, from Chillicothe, IL (located in central Illinois just north of Peoria) was the first to discover it in the drill residue. A noted scholar of the time, Professor Alexander Winchell, reported in his book “Sparks From a Geologist’s Hammer”, that he received from yet another eye-witness, W.H. Wilmot, a detailed statement, dated December 4, 1871, regarding the deposits and depths of materials recovered during the drilling operation, including the position where the metal “coin” was discovered.

The extraordinary “coin / medallion” consisted of an unidentified copper alloy; it was about the size and thickness of a U.S. quarter of that era (24.3 mm in diameter and weighing in at 6.25 grams as compared to a modern quarter that’s 24.26 mm in diameter and weighs in at 5.67 grams).  It was reported to be extraordinarily uniform in thickness and roundness; the edges appeared to have been machine cut and according to researcher William E. Dubois, who presented his findings of the medallion to the American Philosophical Society, believed that the object showed “evidence of the machine shop.”

Despite the coin’s “modern characteristics”, Mr. Dubois plainly saw that, upon the object, “the tooth of time is plainly visible” as he put it. To make this accidental discovery even more unbelievable or perhaps just confounding; a date of 1572 was displayed on one side of the coin.  Both sides of the medallion were marked with artwork and hieroglyphs, but according to Mr. Dubois it had not been engraved or stamped. Rather, the figures displayed upon the coin in his opinion had somehow been etched in acid, with a remarkable degree of sophistication. One side showed the figure of a woman wearing a crown or headdress; her left arm is raised, and her right arm holds a small child, also crowned. 

On the opposite side of the medallion is another central figure that looks somewhat like a crouching animal: it has long, pointed ears, large eyes, and a large mouth with arms that can be described as claw-like, and finally there is the long tail that appears to be tattered at its end.  Below and to the left of this “beast” is another animal which bares a strong resemblance to a horse. Around the outer edges of both sides of the coin are indecipherable glyphs; they are of a very definite character, and show all the signs of some form of alphabetic writing.

Professor Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist for the US state of Michigan presented the medallion / coin to a meeting of the Geological Section of the American Association at its 1876 meeting in Buffalo, New York.   At least one participant, a J R Lesley, suggested that the “artifact” was nothing more than a practical joke and that the coin must have been dropped into a hole by a passing French or Spanish explorer centuries earlier. Needless to say, Professor Winchell was adamant that the symbols on the coin were indecipherable in terms of any known script and that the practical joke premise failed on the grounds that no one could or would have dropped an object into a hole with the expectation that someone several hundred years later somehow just happen to drill in that exact spot.

Ok, we learned in our previous post “Let There be Miracles” that every now and then such oddities do really happen, but for every miracle that happens in this category, there’s dozens of instances that simply defy explanation. 

A few examples include:  A large ceramic spoon or ladle was found in the ashes of a coal stove by a woman in Pennsylvania in 1937. The item was sent to The Smithsonian Institute for examination, and remained buried there in the volumes of stored artifacts until its existence was made public in 1976. 

A story found in the Epoch Times told of an 1800’s Colorado rancher who broke open a lump of coal someone had recovered from a coal vein some 300 feet within the earth, and found a “strange-looking iron thimble.” The artifact was soon dubbed the “Thimble of Eve” by the media. Since its discovery, however, due to mishandling by its owners, the iron corroded and has since disintegrated.

Workers in stone quarries also have found impossible objects: It’s said that in 1844, quarry workers at Rutherford Mills, England, found a piece of gold thread embedded in rock about eight (80) feet below the earth’s surface. 

And finally this example: a British publication of 1845-51, contained a report by Sir David Brewster that reported a nail found in a block of stone that came from Kingoodie Quarry of North Britain. The head of the nail was exposed but about an inch of it was embedded within the stone.

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