Considering prehistoric bullets

      Let me introduce you to Bos Primigenius, the Aurochs.  You've seen many of his descendants, because nearly all the cattle breeds that we now raise come from him, but you have never seen him.


 
      Native to the forests of Europe, this four-legged mountain stood 74 inches tall at the shoulder (that's 6 feet, 2 inches) and he weighed about 2,000 pounds (that's a ton).  Your average bull today stands about 4.5 to 5 feet tall and weighs 1,200 to 1,300 pounds.

     We know a lot about him because, until the 1100's A. D., this creature lived side by side with human beings.  Since that was still in the Dark Ages and Western Civilization had yet to develop an effective firearm, it was considered a great challenge to hunt these beasts, because while you were hunting him, he was hunting you!  With the hunters using only spears and arrows to attack him, the outcome of the conflict was none too certain. 

      Consequently, it was quite well known and recorded when the last of these mighty monsters passed off the scene, in the 1100's as we've said. 

The bullet hole is the darkest spot dead in the center of the forehead

      Why, then, do we find an Aurochs skull that has been penetrated by a bullet, right between the eyes.  It was a small caliber bullet and, while it did penetrate the cranium, the Aurochs survived after the shot, because the edges of the bone around the hole were starting to heal.

The bullet hole is the darkest spot right above the ear

     In addition, why are we finding ancient human skulls, (labeled "Neandertal" by the politically obedient researchers) that also had a bullet hole in the skull, made by a high velocity round, about .32 caliber.  As you can see by the photo with the rod running through the skull, the bullet went straight through this person's head, on an absolutely straight trajectory.   That means that this person didn't, for instance, fall and strike his head on a sharp object, nor was he struck by something like a war club with a big spike running through it.

Rod is showing entry and exit wounds for the same shot

Close-up of the human skull bullet wound

      When examined by German forensic medical examiners (the people who examine the corpses of crime victims, searching for evidence, like on CSI), they determined that this was indeed a bullet wound and could be nothing else.  No other impact, no other weapon, could have left such a clean and regular mark.

      For those who asked if the bullet hole could have been more recent, like someone using a skull they found for target practice or the result of a passing hunter's shot that accidentally hit the skull, the forensics experts say that this is impossible.  The hole had to have been made while the individual was still living.  Otherwise, there would have been a series of spider cracks surrounding the hole. 

     In other words, after death the bone becomes brittle as it dries out.  Any impact would have caused shattering. 

     An ancient beast and an ancient human, both undeniably struck by a high velocity bullet in the skull, hundreds (if not thousands) of years before such weapons were developed by Western civilization - what we call "modern man."

      Yes, of course, mankind has developed slowly and surely from half-apes to our own exalted status. 

       You shall know the truth....

  WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.
 

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern. 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

     The truth is there. You just have to see it.


Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)


 
That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

What happened to Hattusas and the Hittites?

 
     In what is now Turkey, about 95 miles east of Ankara, near the current city of Boğazköy, lies the site of Hattusas (or Hattusa, or Hattusha).  Hattusas was the capital city of a people called the Hittites, who built an empire starting around 1650 B. C.  You may remember the name "Hittites" from the Bible.

Aerial view of the ruins of Hattusas

     The Hittites had a pivotal role in ancient history, far greater than they are given credit for in modern history books.  We hear much about the Egyptians from ancient history, and rightly so.  However, at a time when the Egyptian Empire was at it's highest point under the famous Pharaoh, Ramses the Great, (around 1285 B. C.) and Egypt was one of the two or three superpowers of the ancient world, the Hittites were every bit their equal.

Partial excavations of the ruins of Hattusas

     We know this because we have records, etched in stone,  describing how they fought the mighty Egyptian Empire to a standstill, nearly killing Ramses himself, in the pivotal Battle of Kadesh.  The Egyptians confirmed this by doing something that they never did when they had the upper hand.  They made a peace treaty with the Hittites and Ramses married a Hittite princess to seal the deal.  

The remnants of The Lion Gate at Hattusas.

     The power of the Hittite empire eventually spread over a large part of what we now call the Middle East.  There were several reasons for the success of the Hittites.  

     Firstly, the Hittites were not one people, but an amalgamation of several peoples, which allowed them to combine the strengths and skills of all of them, somewhat like the United States.  As the Hittites met other peoples, they adopted from those cultures whatever technology, skills or customs that were superior to their own, much as the Romans did in later years.

Carving of a Hittite priest and priestess making offerings

     The Hittites possessed the most superior technology, in their day, for the production and use of iron.  They were the acknowledged masters in the world in the use of horses, for war and industry.  They had developed the lightest and fastest chariots in the world.  Although they had an extremely authoritarian system of government, they had an efficient and fair legal system.  They developed good relations with the peoples that they conquered, so there was little political unrest.

Relief carving of a Hittite priest or noble

     The capital of this empire, Hattusas, was as impressive and as impregnable as the Hittites could make it.  It was protected by a stone wall 3.75 miles around, built of stones as large as 26 feet long and 20 feet thick, which would make each stone hundreds of tons in weight.  (There's that use of mega-stones among ancient peoples again.)

A relief carving of  Hittite troops

     Our modern day evaluation of the Hittites would probably lead us to think that these people were safe from all threat and able to outmatch all comers.  In spite of all this, however, someone (we don't know who) invaded and destroyed the Hittite Empire, almost overnight.  They destroyed every vestige of this gargantuan civilization so completely that scholars, until fairly recent times, regarded all references to the Hittites in the Old Testament as allegorical.  Researchers could find no evidence of them.

A modern full-scale reconstruction of a section of the wall surrounding Hattusas

     Mighty Hattusas itself, as you can see from the photos, was leveled to the ground.  Who could have destroyed a militaristic empire, firmly entrenched behind impenetrable stone walls, supported by a powerful and experienced standing army?  The entire Hittite Empire was literally erased off the face of the map by someone, not in a long struggle like you would expect, but with ease.

A model reconstructing Hattusas at its height

     Here's the scary part.  Today, if you visit Hattusas, you can see for yourself that all the stone and brick, in the remnants of buildings, have had their surfaces vitrified, or melted to a glass-like consistency.  None of the surrounding rocky outcroppings,and none of the ground shows any evidence of this vitrification phenomenon. 

     We have talked about such vitrification of stone and brick in previous posts regarding the buildings in Mohenjo-Daro of the Indus River Valley people in what is now Pakistan, the fields of Nubian glass in Egypt and the stone forts of Scotland.  

     It takes a sustained temperature of 1,300 to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit to melt stone (depending on the kind of stone and it's structure).  Granted, the Hittites themselves could produce furnaces that could have produced that temperature, but who could have built one that could have systematically melted the exterior of every building in an entire city?  During an attack, no less!

An artist's vision of ancient Hattusas in all its glory

     What happened?  Short version - we don't know.  

     We will most certainly never find out from our politically correct, evolutionist archaeological friends.  They have no explanations - at least, none that match their carefully crafted myths to explain the time line according to their presuppositions!

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

The truth is there. You just have to see it.

 

 

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

The Klerksdorp spheres: Defying physics

     This is all cut and pasted again. 

     I hope everyone understands that, while I enjoy a weird story as much as anyone, my purpose with these posts is to make sure more people know about the evidence that points to the de-volution of mankind, instead of the evolution that the Darwinite minions try to force down our throats.  I am firmly convinced that we began our history as a race of beings far superior to what we are now and that traces of a superior technology developed by our ancestors can still be found.  I believe that, instead of starting as some half-animals and working our way up to the heights we now enjoy, we were created capable of doing far greater things than we can now imagine and, because of several processes, have become weak and sick and retarded, comparatively.  We are only now beginning to get glimmers of what we once achieved.  This truth has been systematically hidden from us by those who profit from our ignorance, both human and non-human.

The truth will set us free.

Randy

 

     Over the past several decades, South African miners have found hundreds of metallic spheres, at least one of which has three parallel grooves running around its equator.

The spheres are of two types--"one of solid bluish metal with white flecks, and another which is a hollow ball filled with a white spongy center" (Jimison 1982). 

     Roelf Marx, curator of the museum of Klerksdorp, South Africa, where some of the spheres are housed, said: "The spheres are a complete mystery. They look man-made, yet at the time in Earth's history when they came to rest in this rock no intelligent life existed. They're nothing like I have ever seen before" (Jimison 1982).  

      "We wrote to Roelf Marx for further information about the spheres. He replied in a letter dated September 12, 1984: "There is nothing scientific published about the globes, but the facts are: They are found in pyrophyllite, which is mined near the little town of Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal. This pyrophyllite (Al2Si4O10(OH)2) is a quite soft secondary mineral with a count of only 3 on the Mohs' scale and was formed by sedimentation about 2.8 billion years ago. On the other hand the globes, which have a fibrous structure on the inside with a shell around it, are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel." The Mohs' scale of hardness is named after Friedrich Mohs, who chose ten minerals as references points for comparative hardness, with talc the softest and diamond the hardest" ...Forbidden Archaeology 

     Stones, which are found in rock scientists say are billions of years old- and which rotate on their axes, captured the attention of Mr. John Hund of Pietersburg fifteen years ago....

 
     While playing with the stone on a very flat surface at a restaurant one day, Hund realized it was very well balanced. He took it to the California Space Institute at the University of California to have tests done to determine just how well balanced it was. "It turned out that the balance is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology and these are the guys who make gyrocompasses for NASA. The stone is balanced to within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection," explains Hund. Nobody knows what these stones are.

     One NASA scientist reportedly told Hund that they do not have the technology to create anything as finely balanced as this. He said the only way that either nature or human technology could create something so finely balanced would be in zero gravity.

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians. 

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern. 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

     The truth is there. You just have to see it.


Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

Gobekli Tepe: Haunting hill

     In 1995, nine miles northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa (formerly Urfa / Edessa) in southeastern Turkey, just north of Syria, a Kurdish shepherd noticed a stone sticking out of one of his fields, located on a hill called Gobekli Tepe.  Charmingly enough, the name means “Potbelly Hill” in the local language.

The shepherd was aware that many lucrative ancient artifacts were being found throughout the region, so he began to dig around the stone.  He dug and he dug and he dug.  When he finally had the dirt cleared away from the stone, he had revealed a 19 foot tall pillar –expertly crafted and carved with strange images of extinct animals and birds, bizarre humanoid images and other designs as yet undeciphered.

 
     A German archaeological team has been working at the site for 19 years.  In that time, they have excavated only about a thousand square feet, perhaps 10% (if that) of what they think lies beneath the surface. 

I don’t really give a lot of credence to the accuracy of their dating techniques, but the comparative results are stunning.  This may be the oldest man-made construction in the world!

And it is huge!  Monolithic pillars linked by coarsely built walls form circular or oval structures. In the center of each structure there are always two taller, T-shaped pillars, which are set in very shallow sockets carved out of the bedrock.  These 19 foot tall stones would have never stood upright by themselves, indicating that there must have been some sort of supporting roof structure.  

Artist's rendition of what archaeologists think might lie beneath the sand at Gobekli Tepe.

So far, four such buildings, with diameters between 10 and 30 meters have been uncovered. Geophysical surveys indicate the existence of 16-50 total structures.

 
Around all of this expertly carved stonework, not one stone working, cleaning or even agricultural tool has been found.  In addition, the evidence indicates that this huge complex was deliberately buried.

What is relevant for our discussion, is that the dating shows the oldest structures are the ones that are most advanced, most skillfully made.  There is no indication of a progression, an evolution, from simpler, more primitive designs to the more complex and more skillfully made.  Quite the contrary, there is a devolution. 

This is disconcerting and embarrassing for the politically correct archaeologists. 

It is in no way surprising to those of us who are not bound by the narrative of the evolutionary proponents.  Civilizations, cities and temple complexes all over the world, including the valley temples of Gaza, Egypt, the ancient cities of Sumer in Mesopotamia, ancient cities and structures in China and the great Indus River Valley cities all show the same thing.  Peoples suddenly showing up in the archaeological record with complex skills (tool-making, math, medicine, science, architecture and construction, city planning, astronomy), fully developed and complex,with no sign that there was a development of those skills.  There are no evidences of earlier, simpler attempts at these skills.  The ancient peoples just have seemed to have them, at levels that still sometimes exceed our own, from the beginning.

Why?

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians. 

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern. 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

      The truth is there. You just have to see it.
  

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)





That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

The Aiud object: prehistoric mechanization

     In 1973, two kilometers east of the ancient Roman town of Aiud on the banks of the river Mures,in Romania, a group of workers discovered three buried objects in the sand, in a trench about 32 feet in depth (that's three stories deep). Two of the objects, proved themselves to be mastodon bones.
The third object, a block of metal similar in some respects to the head of a hammer, was sent off for study to the archeological institute of Cluj-Napoca.

     The examination of this object showed that it was 8 inches x 5 inches x 3 inches and weighed five pounds. An analysis performed under the direction of Dr. Niederkorn of the Institute for the Study of Metals and of Non-metallic Minerals (ICPMMN), located in Magurele, Romania, showed that it is an extremely complex alloy.

     The alloy is composed of 12 different elements - aluminum (89%), copper (6.2%), silicon (2.84%), zinc (1.81%), lead (0.41%), pond (0.33%), zirconium (0.2%), cadmium (0.11%), nickel (0.0024%), cobalt (0.0023%), bismuth (0.0003%), silver (0.0002%), and gallium (in trace amounts). Mircea Aries and Peter Lab, two Romanian journalists and researchers, affirm that the same results were obtained in a research institute in Lausanne, Switzerland.

     The fact that this weird metal object is uncovered together with very ancient bone (mastodon) does cause one to wonder and raises many issues.

     Aluminum, just to begin, is not found free in nature. Only in the last 100 years or so has the technology been thought to exist to separate it out from ores like bauxite.

     Additionally, this strange "foot" is covered with an oxide layer. The thickness of this oxide layer is said to be confirmation that the object is at least 300 or 400 years old.

      An aeronautical engineer advised that it was similar in shape, though smaller, to the foot of a landing device of a flying VTOL (vertical take off and landing) vehicle, such as the lunar module or the Viking probe.

     In confirmation or support of this theory beyond the shape of the object, are the two oval holes, and the scratches in the interior in the rear part and the angles.

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern. 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

The truth is there. You just have to see it.
 

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

The Coelacanth: "Living fossil?"

Let me introduce you to the Coelacanth, my personal candidate for the winner of the Most Repulsive Fish category. 

It is well represented in the fossil record. This fish was thought to be 400 Million years old --older than the dinosaurs--and to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (according to Darwinite uniformitarian materialists). 

That is, until some western paleontologists were strolling through a Madagascan fish market and found one – freshly caught! Actually, it didn’t just appear. It had been alive all the time. It was known to the local fishermen, who could tell the stunned researchers that this fish could only be caught at a depth of 700 feet and only at night.

Since then, many specimens have been caught, mainly off the island of Madagascar. It’s called a “living fossil” or “an evolutionary aberration.” What it really amounts to is another hole shot in the evolutionary propaganda by facts.

One of the arguments between those who accept creation by God and materialists/evolutionists is whether man and dinosaur co-existed--and here we have man and pre-dinosaur (again according to evolution) co-existing. 

The point is that their theory doesn’t line up with the facts. In any other area of inquiry, the theory would be thrown out. The fact that so many people cling to it verifies that people want a world where God has no part in it. It does nothing to lend credence to the theory.

 

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

The truth is there. You just have to see it.

 
Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)

That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

The Antikythera device: 2,000 year old clockwork?

"Once again, this is just cutting and pasting from the internet."     Randy

The Antikythera Mechanism

Ancient Computer More Than 2000 Years Old 

See a very illuminating reproduction at this YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk

"There is at least one artifact that proves beyond all doubt that one civilization in the ancient world possessed technical knowledge which no modern scientists had previously suspected. As it was found in the sea off Antikythera, a small island northwest of Crete, it is known as the 'Antikythera Mechanism.'

"Though it is over two thousand years old, it represents a level which our technology did not reach until the eighteenth century. If the insight of the Greeks had matched their ingenuity, the industrial revolution might have begun a thousand years before Columbus. By this time we would not merely be puttering around on the Moon, we would have reached the nearer stars." -- Arthur C Clarke in "Technology and the Limits of Knowledge" 

"In 1900, on the day before Easter Sunday, a team of divers discovered a shipwreck off Antikythera whilst attempting to find sponges. The sunken ship's hull was full of bronze statues and other ancient artifacts that were later retrieved and delivered to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens for cleaning and restoration.

It was not until 17th May, 1902 that a leading archaeologist examined the artifacts and recognized the outline of cogwheels in one of the lumps of bronze and wood. The writing on the case confirmed that the item had been made in 80 B. C. 

In 1958 Derek J. Solla Price, an Englishman who then worked at Cambridge University and who later worked as the Avalon Professor of the History of Science at Yale University in America, examined the mechanism. Using a process for restoring oxidized objects, Dr. Price was able to salvage some of the mass and from these pieces he attempted to rebuild the device.

However it was not until 1971 when X-ray photographs were taken of the artifact by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission, that the mechanism's array of meshing gears was finally revealed. 

Price remarked that, "nothing like this instrument is preserved elsewhere. Nothing comparable to it is known from any ancient scientific text or literary allusion. On the contrary, from all that we know of science and technology in the Hellenistic age, we should have felt that a device could not exist".

Work on the artifact revealed that on the outside it had consisted of dials set into a wooden box with at least 20-gear wheels inside. The box was covered with inscriptions that included an astronomical calendar. The mechanism also included a system of differential years. A crank spindle set the gears in motion at various speeds, turning pointers on three dials that calculated the rising and setting times and phases of the Moon, and the positions of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all with a high degree of accuracy . "

"It appears that this was, indeed a computing machine that could work out and exhibit the motions of the sun and the moon and probably also the planets" ...Solla Price 

It could well be that the technology is pre-Greek, since there are no other indications that they had this type of technical ability.

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians. 

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern. 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

The truth is there. You just have to see it.



Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New American Standard Bible)


That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.