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Dubois did claim that Java Man was "a gigantic genus allied to the gibbons", but that was owing to his own theories about how brains had evolved coupled with wishful thinking.

However this was not a retraction of his earlier claims that "Java Man" was an intermediate between apes and humans. Dubois also pointed out that it was bipedal and that its brain size was "very much too large for an anthropoid ape", and he never stopped believing that he had found an ancestor of modern man.

The skullcap definitely does not belong to any ape, and especially not to a gibbon. It is far too large (940 cc, compared to 97 cc for a gibbon)

The femur and -some- of the teeth, originally thought to also be pre-historic have since been proven NOT part of the 'historical' find. (A modern femur, and what are most likely orang-utan teeth) That however doesn't change the fact that the skullcap IS very similar to many other Homo erectus fossils that have been found, like "Sangiran 17", "Turkana Boy" or "ER 3733".

In a review of Richard Milton's book "Shattering the myths of Darwinism", Carl Wieland, the CEO of Answers in Genesis wrote, in 1998,
"[Milton's] statement that the Java Man remains are now thought to be simply those of an extinct, giant gibbon-like creature is simply false. He appears to have been misled by the myth (commenced by evolutionists, and perpetuated in both creationist and evolutionist works since) that Eugene Dubois, the discoverer of Java Man, recanted and called his discovery a 'giant gibbon'. Knowledgeable creationists do not make this sort of claim anymore. (Wieland 1998)

"he waited thirty years to reveal"
No... he didn't.... that's a common misconception (mythconception? LOL)

Dubois described the first "Wadjak Skull" in a letter to Dr. Ph. Sluiter (director of the library and Museum in what was then "Batavia") which was published in the Naturkundig Tijdschrift van Nederlandsch-Indie vol. 49 (1890) pp. 209-211... A journal that was widely distributed and available in Europe and America.


"two perfectly human skulls in the same area and level of gravel deposit"
First.... "nearby Wadjak" is a good one hundred miles of mountainous countryside away from Trinil, the site of Dubois' Pithecanthropus. 2ndly it is not accurate to call them "approximately the same level" when one is well over half a million years old and the other is less than ten thousand.
 

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ClintonHammond said:
However this was not a retraction of his earlier claims that "Java Man" was an intermediate between apes and humans.
That's why I didn't put that in my rebuttal. One of the detriments to Creationism is enthusiasts going off half-cocked.
ClintonHammond said:
Dubois also pointed out that it was bipedal...
A claim based on a human femur.

ClintonHammond said:
The skullcap definitely does not belong to any ape, and especially not to a gibbon. It is far too large (940 cc, compared to 97 cc for a gibbon)
Have you seen prehistoric sloths? They grew 'em big in the old days. I won't yet touch on skeletons of thirteen-foot humans I've heard rumors about.

ClintonHammond said:
That however doesn't change the fact that the skullcap IS very similar to many other Homo erectus fossils that have been found, like "Sangiran 17", "Turkana Boy" or "ER 3733".
And what was quantified as a fossil? More skullcaps?

ClintonHammond said:
" He appears to have been misled by the myth (commenced by evolutionists, and perpetuated in both creationist and evolutionist works since) that Eugene Dubois, the discoverer of Java Man, recanted and called his discovery a 'giant gibbon'. Knowledgeable creationists do not make this sort of claim anymore. (Wieland 1998)
Addressed above. Creationism needs to be as explored as the Bible. The ones who quote these 'mythconceptions' (liked that one) are the same ones beating their chest and saying 'God hates _______(choose your culture).'


ClintonHammond said:
2ndly it is not accurate to call them "approximately the same level" when one is well over half a million years old and the other is less than ten thousand.
By interpretation only. They were in the same strata. The fallacious argument of fossils dating strata is circular reasoning. Fossils of "conflicting ages" are found in the same strata all the time. If they were millions of years apart, they would be several layers apart. If they died in a flood and the layers were sedimentary deposits, they would be in the same strata.

Well done..but not done.
 
"One of the detriments to Creationism is enthusiasts going off half-cocked."
Creationists sure don't have a monopoly on half-cocked enthusiasts!! LOL

" A claim based on a human femur"
That Dubois' original reason for the claim was faulty doesn't change the fact that further study (the same further study that refuted the original, modern human femur) proved Pithecanthropus was bi-pedal

"what was quantified as a fossil? More skullcaps?"
Please rephrase the question. I don't follow what you're getting at.

"If they died in a flood and the layers were sedimentary deposits"
Except, again, there's no evidence of a flood that could have created global 'strata'.

So that 'if' has feet of clay.... Is built upon sand....

" If they were millions of years apart, they would be several layers apart."
Only if they were close together.... these were a hundred miles apart.... Over mountainous country side where erosion would NOT be uniform
 

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ClintonHammond said:
Creationists sure don't have a monopoly on half-cocked enthusiasts!! LOL
That much is certain...but we claim and believe that we represent the truth. There are those who claim to be authorities that should sit down and shut up.

ClintonHammond said:
That Dubois' original reason for the claim was faulty doesn't change the fact that further study (the same further study that refuted the original, modern human femur) proved Pithecanthropus was bi-pedal
What further study?
ClintonHammond said:
"what was quantified as a fossil? More skullcaps?"
Please rephrase the question. I don't follow what you're getting at.
I'm saying that a skullcap does not a Java man make. A whole 'specimen' was mocked-up by the paltry findings of an eccentric enthusiast. What other fossils were found that substantiate a whole 'specimen'?

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Except, again, there's no evidence of a flood that could have created global 'strata'.
The strata themselves are proof. As are trees that extend through several layers. They didn't grow for epochs. Much like the trees in Spirit Lake, they were deposited in sediment layers that settled after a global cataclysm.
 
I only have a moment for this, and it's mostly another question.... but if it's the same "Spirit Lake" I'm thinking of, those trees were deposited there in 1980.... They are evidence of the eruption of Mount St. Helens that same year... Not evidence of any near-pre-historical Global Flood.....

Or is it a different Spirit Lake you're talking about???

More on the evidence that Java man stands on later!

For now, I have miles to cover and day light is burning... maybe catch ya tomorrow Doc. S.
 

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temple of john said:
May I just interrupt you two professor's?

What is the point of all this when in the end your both just gonna believe the same way anyway?
Sheer sport...and it pays to have one's beliefs intelligently challenged. Most Christians don't know what they believe. Still more don't know why they believe it. While my faith is not predicated by scientific verification, it shouldn't be contradictory to all available evidence. And I don't believe it is.

clintonhammond said:
I only have a moment for this, and it's mostly another question.... but if it's the same "Spirit Lake" I'm thinking of, those trees were deposited there in 1980.... They are evidence of the eruption of Mount St. Helens that same year... Not evidence of any near-pre-historical Global Flood.....
Different instance, same mechanism. Proof that an explosive cataclysm could produce said phenomenon. Maybe I should clarify...the Flood happened from both above and below. Not merely rain, but Genesis relates that the fountains of the deep burst forth. Antediluvian, there were vast subterranean chambers filled with water. The Creation account relates how mist came from the earth to water it. I believe that these chambers were under tremendous pressure. The Flood was a bursting forth with dynamic force of these subterranean geysers. On a global scale, that would produce an upheaval (understatedly) and eventual settling of the displaced soil into the observed strata.
clintonhammond said:
Or is it a different Spirit Lake you're talking about???
Nope...same one.
clintonhammond said:
More on the evidence that Java man stands on later!
I look forward to it.
clintonhammond said:
For now, I have miles to cover and day light is burning... maybe catch ya tomorrow Doc. S.
Reminds me of Frost. Musicians and poets...we need more of them. Travel well, CH.
 
Most people who believe in a global flood also believe that the flood was responsible for creating all fossil-bearing strata. (The alternative, that the strata were laid down slowly and thus represent a time sequence of several generations at least, would prove that some kind of evolutionary process occurred.) However, there is a great deal of contrary evidence.

Before you argue that fossil evidence was dated and interpreted to meet evolutionary assumptions, remember that the geological column and the relative dates therein were laid out by people who believed divine creation, before Darwin even formulated his theory. (See, for example, Moore [1973], or the closing pages of Dawson [1868].)

Why are geological eras consistent worldwide? How do you explain worldwide agreement between "apparent" geological eras and several different (independent) radiometric and nonradiometric dating methods? [e.g., Short et al, 1991]

How was the fossil record sorted in an order convenient for evolution? Ecological zonation, hydrodynamic sorting, and differential escape fail to explain:

  • the extremely good sorting observed. Why didn't at least one dinosaur make it to the high ground with the elephants?
  • the relative positions of plants and other non-motile life. (Yun, 1989, describes beautifully preserved algae from Late Precambrian sediments. Why don't any modern-looking plants appear that low in the geological column?)
  • why some groups of organisms, such as mollusks, are found in many geologic strata.
  • why organisms (such as brachiopods) which are very similar hydrodynamically (all nearly the same size, shape, and weight) are still perfectly sorted.
  • why extinct animals which lived in the same niches as present animals didn't survive as well. Why did no pterodons make it to high ground?
  • how coral reefs hundreds of feet thick and miles long were preserved intact with other fossils below them.
  • why small organisms dominate the lower strata, whereas fluid mechanics says they would sink slower and thus end up in upper strata.
  • why artifacts such as footprints and burrows are also sorted. [Crimes & Droser, 1992]
  • why no human artifacts are found except in the very uppermost strata. If, at the time of the Flood, the earth was overpopulated by people with technology for shipbuilding, why were none of their tools or buildings mixed with trilobite or dinosaur fossils?
  • why different parts of the same organisms are sorted together. Pollen and spores are found in association with the trunks, leaves, branches, and roots produced by the same plants [Stewart, 1983].
  • why ecological information is consistent within but not between layers.

Fossil pollen is one of the more important indicators of different levels of strata. Each plant has different and distinct pollen, and, by telling which plants produced the fossil pollen, it is easy to see what the climate was like in different strata. Was the pollen hydraulically sorted by the flood water so that the climatic evidence is different for each layer?

How do surface features appear far from the surface? Deep in the geologic column there are formations which could have originated only on the surface, such as:

  • Rain drops. [Robb, 1992]
  • River channels. [Miall, 1996, especially chpt. 6]
  • Wind-blown dunes. [Kocurek & Dott, 1981; Clemmenson & Abrahamsen, 1983; Hubert & Mertz, 1984]
  • Beaches.
  • Glacial deposits. [Eyles & Miall, 1984]
  • Burrows. [Crimes & Droser, 1992; Thackray, 1994]
  • In-place trees. [Cristie & McMillan, 1991]
  • Soil. [Reinhardt & Sigleo, 1989; Wright, 1986, 1994]
  • Desiccation cracks. [Andrews, 1988; Robb, 1992]
  • Footprints. [Gore, 1993, has a photograph (p. 16-17) showing dinosaur footprints in one layer with water ripples in layers above and below it. Gilette & Lockley, 1989, have several more examples, including dinosaur footprints on top of a coal seam (p. 361-366).]
  • Meteorites and meteor craters. [Grieve, 1997; Schmitz et al, 1997]
  • Coral reefs. [Wilson, 1975]
  • Cave systems. [James & Choquette, 1988]

How could these have appeared in the midst of a catastrophic flood?
How does a global flood explain angular unconformities? These are where one set of layers of sediments have been extensively modified (e.g., tilted) and eroded before a second set of layers were deposited on top. They thus seem to require at least two periods of deposition (more, where there is more than one unconformity) with long periods of time in between to account for the deformation, erosion, and weathering observed.

How were mountains and valleys formed? Many very tall mountains are composed of sedimentary rocks. (The summit of Everest is composed of deep-marine limestone, with fossils of ocean-bottom dwelling crinoids [Gansser, 1964].) If these were formed during the Flood, how did they reach their present height, and when were the valleys between them eroded away? Keep in mind that many valleys were clearly carved by glacial erosion, which is a slow process.

When did granite batholiths form? Some of these are intruded into older sediments and have younger sediments on their eroded top surfaces. It takes a long time for magma to cool into granite, nor does granite erode very quickly. [For example, see Donohoe & Grantham, 1989, for locations of contact between the South Mountain Batholith and the Meugma Group of sediments, as well as some angular unconformities.]

How can a single flood be responsible for such extensively detailed layering? One formation in New Jersey is six kilometers thick. If we grant 400 days for this to settle, and ignore possible compaction since the Flood, we still have 15 meters of sediment settling per day. And yet despite this, the chemical properties of the rock are neatly layered, with great changes (e.g.) in percent carbonate occurring within a few centimeters in the vertical direction. How does such a neat sorting process occur in the violent context of a universal flood dropping 15 meters of sediment per day? How can you explain a thin layer of high carbonate sediment being deposited over an area of ten thousand square kilometers for some thirty minutes, followed by thirty minutes of low carbonate deposition, etc.? [Zimmer, 1992]

How do you explain the formation of varves? The Green River formation in Wyoming contains 20,000,000 annual layers, or varves, identical to those being laid down today in certain lakes. The sediments are so fine that each layer would have required over a month to settle.

How could a flood deposit layered fossil forests? Stratigraphic sections showing a dozen or more mature forests layered atop each other--all with upright trunks, in-place roots, and well-developed soil--appear in many locations. One example, the Joggins section along the Bay of Fundy, shows a continuous section 2750 meters thick (along a 48-km sea cliff) with multiple in-place forests, some separated by hundreds of feet of strata, some even showing evidence of forest fires. [Ferguson, 1988. For other examples, see Dawson, 1868; Cristie & McMillan, 1991; Gastaldo, 1990; Yuretich, 1994.] Creationists point to logs sinking in a lake below Mt. St. Helens as an example of how a flood can deposit vertical trunks, but deposition by flood fails to explain the roots, the soil, the layering, and other features found in such places.

Where did all the heat go? If the geologic record was deposited in a year, then the events it records must also have occurred within a year. Some of these events release significant amounts of heat.

  • Magma. The geologic record includes roughly 8 x 1024 grams of lava flows and igneous intrusions. Assuming (conservatively) a specific heat of 0.15, this magma would release 5.4 x 1027 joules while cooling 1100 degrees C. In addition, the heat of crystallization as the magma solidifies would release a great deal more heat.
  • Limestone formation. There are roughly 5 x 1023 grams of limestone in the earth's sediments [Poldervaart, 1955], and the formation of calcite releases about 11,290 joules/gram [Weast, 1974, p. D63]. If only 10% of the limestone were formed during the Flood, the 5.6 x 1026 joules of heat released would be enough to boil the flood waters.
  • Meteorite impacts. Erosion and crustal movements have erased an unknown number of impact craters on earth, but Creationists Whitcomb and DeYoung suggest that cratering to the extent seen on the Moon and Mercury occurred on earth during the year of Noah's Flood. The heat from just one of the largest lunar impacts released an estimated 3 x 1026 joules; the same sized object falling to earth would release even more energy. [Fezer, pp. 45-46]
  • Other. Other possibly significant heat sources are radioactive decay (some Creationists claim that radioactive decay rates were much higher during the Flood to account for consistently old radiometric dates); biological decay (think of the heat released in compost piles); and compression of sediments.

5.6 x 1026 joules is enough to heat the oceans to boiling. 3.7 x 1027 joules will vaporize them completely. Since steam and air have a lower heat capacity than water, the steam released will quickly raise the temperature of the atmosphere over 1000 C. At these temperatures, much of the atmosphere would boil off the Earth.

Aside from losing its atmosphere, Earth can only get rid of heat by radiating it to space, and it can't radiate significantly more heat than it gets from the sun unless it is a great deal hotter than it is now. (It is very nearly at thermal equilibrium now.) If there weren't many millions of years to radiate the heat from the above processes, the earth would still be unlivably hot.

All the mechanisms proposed for causing the Flood already provide more than enough energy to vaporize it as well. These additional factors only make the heat problem worse.
 
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Part 2

How were limestone deposits formed? Much limestone is made of the skeletons of zillions of microscopic sea animals. Some deposits are thousands of meters thick. Were all those animals alive when the Flood started? If not, how do you explain the well-ordered sequence of fossils in the deposits? Roughly 1.5 x 1015 grams of calcium carbonate are deposited on the ocean floor each year. [Poldervaart, 1955] A deposition rate ten times as high for 5000 years before the Flood would still only account for less than 0.02% of limestone deposits.

How could a flood have deposited chalk? Chalk is largely made up of the bodies of plankton 700 to 1000 angstroms in diameter [Bignot, 1985]. Objects this small settle at a rate of .0000154 mm/sec. [Twenhofel, 1961] In a year of the Flood, they could have settled about half a meter.

How could the Flood deposit layers of solid salt? Such layers are sometimes meters in width, interbedded with sediments containing marine fossils. This apparently occurs when a body of salt water has its fresh-water intake cut off, and then evaporates. These layers can occur more or less at random times in the geological history, and have characteristic fossils on either side. Therefore, if the fossils were themselves laid down during a catastrophic flood, there are, it seems, only two choices:

  1. the salt layers were themselves laid down at the same time, during the heavy rains that began the flooding, or
  2. the salt is a later intrusion. I suspect that both will prove insuperable difficulties for a theory of flood deposition of the geologic column and its fossils. [Jackson et al, 1990]

How were sedimentary deposits recrystallized and plastically deformed in the short time since the Flood? The stretched pebble conglomerate in Death Valley National Monument (Wildrose Canyon Rd., 15 mi. south of Hwy. 190), for example, contains streambed pebbles metamorphosed to quartzite and stretched to 3 or more times their original length. Plastically deformed stone is also common around salt diapirs [Jackson et al, 1990].

How were hematite layers laid down? Standard theory is that they were laid down before Earth's atmosphere contained much oxygen. In an oxygen-rich regime, they would almost certainly be impossible.
How do you explain fossil mineralization? Mineralization is the replacement of the original material with a different mineral.

  • Buried skeletal remains of modern fauna are negligibly mineralized, including some that biblical archaeology says are quite old - a substantial fraction of the age of the earth in this diluvian geology. For example, remains of Egyptian commoners buried near the time of Moses aren't extensively mineralized.
  • Buried skeletal remains of extinct mammalian fauna show quite variable mineralization.
  • Dinosaur remains are often extensively mineralized.
  • Trilobite remains are usually mineralized - and in different sites, fossils of the same species are composed of different materials.

How are these observations explained by a sorted deposition of remains in a single episode of global flooding?

How does a flood explain the accuracy of "coral clocks"? The moon is slowly sapping the earth's rotational energy. The earth should have rotated more quickly in the distant past, meaning that a day would have been less than 24 hours, and there would have been more days per year. Corals can be dated by the number of "daily" growth layers per "annual" growth layer. Devonian corals, for example, show nearly 400 days per year. There is an exceedingly strong correlation between the "supposed age" of a wide range of fossils (corals, stromatolites, and a few others -- collected from geologic formations throughout the column and from locations all over the world) and the number of days per year that their growth pattern shows. The agreement between these clocks, and radiometric dating, and the theory of superposition is a little hard to explain away as the result of a number of unlucky coincidences in a 300-day-long flood. [Rosenberg & Runcorn, 1975; Scrutton, 1965; Wells, 1963]
Where were all the fossilized animals when they were alive? Schadewald [1982] writes:

"Scientific creationists interpret the fossils found in the earth's rocks as the remains of animals that perished in the Noachian Deluge. Ironically, they often cite the sheer number of fossils in 'fossil graveyards' as evidence for the Flood. In particular, creationists seem enamored by the Karroo Formation in Africa, which is estimated to contain the remains of 800 billion vertebrate animals (see Whitcomb and Morris, p. 160; Gish, p. 61). As pseudoscientists, creationists dare not test this major hypothesis that all of the fossilized animals died in the Flood.

"Robert E. Sloan, a paleontologist at the University of Minnesota, has studied the Karroo Formation. He asserts that the animals fossilized there range from the size of a small lizard to the size of a cow, with the average animal perhaps the size of a fox. A minute's work with a calculator shows that, if the 800 billion animals in the Karoo formation could be resurrected, there would be twenty-one of them for every acre of land on earth. Suppose we assume (conservatively, I think) that the Karroo Formation contains 1 percent of the vertebrate [land] fossils on earth. Then when the Flood began, there must have been at least 2100 living animals per acre, ranging from tiny shrews to immense dinosaurs. To a noncreationist mind, that seems a bit crowded."
A thousand kilometers' length of arctic coastal plain, according to experts in Leningrad, contains about 500,000 tons of tusks. Even assuming that the entire population was preserved, you seem to be saying that Russia had wall-to-wall mammoths before this "event."

Even if there was room physically for all the large animals which now exist only as fossils, how could they have all coexisted in a stable ecology before the Flood? Montana alone would have had to support a diversity of herbivores orders of magnitude larger than anything now observed.

Where did all the organic material in the fossil record come from? There are 1.16 x 1013 metric tons of coal reserves, and at least 100 times that much unrecoverable organic matter in sediments. A typical forest, even if it covered the entire earth, would supply only 1.9 x 1013 metric tons. [Ricklefs, 1993, p. 149]

How do you explain the relative commonness of aquatic fossils? A flood would have washed over everything equally, so terrestrial organisms should be roughly as abundant as aquatic ones (or more abundant, since Creationists hypothesize greater land area before the Flood) in the fossil record. Yet shallow marine environments account for by far the most fossils.
 
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And a special thanks to Talkorigins.org.....

When "Creationists" can even begin to answer these few of the many flaws in their proposals, I'll take their 'origin tale' maybe a fraction as seriously as they do.

Until then, I'm simply forced to side with those who agree that the weight of evidence is against there every having been a global flood.
 

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Impressive...most impressive. But your not a jedi...wait, wrong forum.

This discussion is turning into a dual thesis. I'll be back with answers...
 

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ClintonHammond said:
"But your not a jedi..."

Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a good blaster at your side, Kid.

Heh
I find your lack of faith disturbing...movie reference only, to the uninitiated.
 

Doc Savage

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ClintonHammond said:
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence."
-Richard Dawkins-

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Ahhh...but we've proved that I'm a faith-filled thinker. Where does that leave Mr. Dawkins?

And thank you, ToJ. I've learned to appreciate your particular wit here and elsewhere on these threads.
 

Doc Savage

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temple of john said:
Doc, I thought I had read that you are a Minister or Pastor? I would really like to know more about that.
What would you like to know? I've been everything from a Wiccan to a Satanist (as far as that goes; Anton LaVey never had an original thought). I ran from Christianity for years because I saw no power to change in it. I was wrong. When I invested some time into what the Bible actually said, and not what others told me it said, I found what I was looking for.
 

Doc Savage

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ClintonHammond said:
"we've proved that I'm a faith-filled thinker"

I cannot answer that without denegrating your faith, so I'm not going to....
So...you ARE a gentleman and a scholar
 

Tennessee R

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I don't have any real evidence, so correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Mt. St. Helens create a canyon leading out to Spirit Lake with layers just like the Grand Canyon layers, yet the GC layers are supposedly each millions of years old?

CH, have we yet gotten reference for the:
....."That Dubois' original reason for the claim was faulty doesn't change the fact that further study (the same further study that refuted the original, modern human femur) proved Pithecanthropus was bi-pedal"

I know that you probably have it, but I'd like to know that you definatly have it.

And doesn't it seem to be just about as much evidence on Java Man as there is of Nuweiba Beach on the Gulf of Aquba being the 'Red Sea crossing site'?


A man in the 1800s claims to have found a species in between humans and apes, bringing back a skullcap, and a few (believed to be not belonging to Java Man) bones.
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A man in the 1900s claims to have found the site of the story of the crossing of the Red Sea, brings back an ancient chariot wheel hub, and photographical evidence of other artifacts from 18th dynasty Egypt.


A few skeleton parts, seems to be old. (Circa ?)
A few chariot parts, seems to be old. (Circa 18th Dynasty)


A theory of rocks and soup turning into apes and men.
A theory of a God stirring up water and drowning an army.
 
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