Posted on 04/08/2014 6:13:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Kuban said the stone may contain materials that are more than 100 million years old, but that doesn’t mean the rock formed around the hammer so long ago. Some limestone has formed around artifacts known to be from the 20th century, so rocks can sometimes form fairly quickly.
Baugh’s website says, however, that the fossils in the stone surrounding the hammer “retain fine detail, indicating that they were not reworked, but [are] part of the original formation.” This would suggest the fossils and the hammer are from the same time period, that the fossils did not just get mixed up in materials that formed rock around the hammer at a later date.
Carbon dating performed in the late 1990s “showed inconclusive dates ranging from the present to 700 years ago,” Baugh supporter David Lines reported at the time. According to Kuban, Lines said the test had been contaminated by more recent organic substances. Such contamination is one of the reasons Baugh is said to have delayed having the artifact carbon dated (skeptics say he delayed because he feared being proved wrong). Dating is often called into question on both sides—by skeptics and proponents—for various reasons when it comes to ooparts.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Not *quite* what I was expecting Mjolnir to look like ...
Just shows the circularity of evolutionist claims. They date strata by the artifacts found in them, and they date artifacts by the strata they’re found in.
They get really confused when artifacts show up in strata that couldn’t possibly contain them if the evolutionary timeline is true. Like limestone.
There are lots of other such out of place artifacts:
http://s8int.com/articles/1459/DNA-The-Ultimate-Oopart-Page-1.htm
BC or AD?
good point! I forgot to ask the inspector. That would explain a LOT
Looks old enough for Helen Thomas to have used it in her music video.
For a skaters back then, as soft as it got was Metallica, and that was borderline.
I would really hate trying to drive a rail spike with something the size of a prospectors rock hammer.
“Property of Noah: Return if Found”
It is just as likely that a geologist left it behind when he/she re-entered the time machine...
Was there a sickle beside it?
It may have been dropped by Obama.
Could be a hammer from the people from Battlestar Galactica’s time after they landed here......
It was made by Stanley Works in New Britain, CT.
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