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These artifacts are found among other artifacts of an ancient culture. The difference between these and the other artifacts among which they are found is that they represent a technology that the civilization under study was not supposed to have. They include:
 
These artifacts are found among other artifacts of an ancient culture. The difference between these and the other artifacts among which they are found is that they represent a technology that the civilization under study was not supposed to have. They include:
  
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# The Baghdad Battery, an apparently spent dry cell in a six-inch yellow clay pot, found in the Baghdad Museum in 1938.<ref name=top10>Jochmans, Joseph R., PhD. "[http://www.rense.com/general3/top10.htm Top 10 Out-Of-Place Artifacts]." ''Atlantis Rising'', Issue 5 (Sep-Oct 1996). Now hosted by Jeff Rense. Accessed March 31, 2008.</ref>
 
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# The Dendera Tubes. More specifically, these are images on an Egyptian bas-relief of tube-like structures in the hands of Egyptian priests or acolytes. At least one electrical engineer has stated that the objects depicted in that bas-relief are Crookes tubes, which were the forerunners of the cathode-ray tubes still in common use in [[television]] receivers.<ref name=top10/>
 
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# The Ashoka Pillar in Delhi, India. This wrought-iron shaft supposedly dates to an Indian king who died in 413 AD. The metal, which ought to have crumbled into rust long ago, remains in excellent condition.<ref name=top10/>
 
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# The Antikythera Computer, a geared structure recovered in 1900 from the wreck of a merchant vessel that, to judge from the other cargo it carried, apparently sank sometime between 85 BC and 50 BC. This object was a highly sophisticated and easy-to-use [[orrery]] that predicted the annual motions of the [[sun]] and [[moon]] in the earth's sky.<ref name=top10/>
 
 
# The Saqqara Bird, a seven-[[inch]] object, first thought to be a [[bird]] figurine, but then recognized as a model [[airplane]]. This was found in 1898 in the tomb of Pa-Di-Imen and dates to 200 BC.<ref name=top10/><ref name=s8int>"[http://www.s8int.com/ OOParts and Ancient High Technology: Evidence of Noah's Flood]?" Accessed March 31, 2008.</ref>
 
# The Saqqara Bird, a seven-[[inch]] object, first thought to be a [[bird]] figurine, but then recognized as a model [[airplane]]. This was found in 1898 in the tomb of Pa-Di-Imen and dates to 200 BC.<ref name=top10/><ref name=s8int>"[http://www.s8int.com/ OOParts and Ancient High Technology: Evidence of Noah's Flood]?" Accessed March 31, 2008.</ref>
 
# An Inca pendant, dated from 500 to 800 AD, that turns out to be a model of a high-speed aircraft, possibly a jet. More remarkably, the object's apparent rudder fin bears an engraved [[Hebrew]] or [[Aramaic]] letter beth.<ref name=top10/><ref name=s8int/>
 
# An Inca pendant, dated from 500 to 800 AD, that turns out to be a model of a high-speed aircraft, possibly a jet. More remarkably, the object's apparent rudder fin bears an engraved [[Hebrew]] or [[Aramaic]] letter beth.<ref name=top10/><ref name=s8int/>
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# The Crystal Skull of Lubaantum ([[Belize]]), a 7-inch-long skull cut from a single piece of clear quartz found among Mayan ruins in 1927. The artisan who fashioned it evidently cut the quartz ''against the axis of crystallization'', a feat no modern jeweler could possibly accomplish without shattering the quartz into fine dust. Moreover, even if the artisan could have accomplished the against-the-grain cut, he cannot have used any metal tools, because his work bears no scratch marks. Analysts have concluded that the production of this artifact would have required 300 man-hours using any conceivable modern method&mdash;again, ''if'' anyone could have cut the quartz against the grain without shattering it. (One must also wonder what sort of culture would see something as morbid as a skull as an article of jewelry, much less exert such technological effort to produce such an object.)<ref name=top10/>
 
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# The Cabrera Stones. These are 20,000 stones that appear to be illustrations from a medical textbook. The surgical techniques depicted in these illustrations rival or even far surpass any surgical techniques in use today, and even include encephalic transplantation.<ref name=top10/>
 
  
 
=== Modern technology in deep time ===
 
=== Modern technology in deep time ===

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An out-of-place artifact (OOPA, OOPa, or OOPart) is any object displaying evidence of a technology that, according to uniformitarian or related paradigms, ought not exist in the particular geologic stratum in which it rests. OOParts are one of the most troubling controversies for archaeology today.

History of OOParts

The report in 1572 of a six-inch nail found in Peru and presented to the Viceroy of Peru as a gift[1] might be the oldest OOPart report on record. More than eighty OOParts have been alleged since then.

The significance of a six-inch nail is simply this: the Incas, who inhabited Peru before Francisco Pizarro conquered it, did not nail their monuments together. The Incas did use metal, but did not make nails out of it. That is why the nail would be anachronistic to Inca culture.

Types of OOParts

The OOParts fall into three main categories:

  1. Evidence of modern or even more-advanced technology from either an ancient culture (e.g. the Saqqara Bird in Egypt) or a location in a geologic stratum regarded as far too deep to be contemporary with man.
  2. Fossilized human remains. The alleged lack of such remains is one of the most common reasons cited to discount the Flood account.[2]
  3. Evidence of dinosaur-human cohabitation on earth. This varies from ancient artwork depicting creatures supposedly not discovered until centuries later, to side-by-side human and dinosaur tracks.

Modern technology in ancient times

These artifacts are found among other artifacts of an ancient culture. The difference between these and the other artifacts among which they are found is that they represent a technology that the civilization under study was not supposed to have. They include:

  1. The Saqqara Bird, a seven-inch object, first thought to be a bird figurine, but then recognized as a model airplane. This was found in 1898 in the tomb of Pa-Di-Imen and dates to 200 BC.[3][4]
  2. An Inca pendant, dated from 500 to 800 AD, that turns out to be a model of a high-speed aircraft, possibly a jet. More remarkably, the object's apparent rudder fin bears an engraved Hebrew or Aramaic letter beth.[3][4]

Modern technology in deep time

These are artifacts buried in geological strata where no artifact of any human civilization, ancient or modern, ought to exist, or at the very least are in strata that are supposed to be older than the oldest written records.

  1. A brass bell with an iron clapper, found in a lump of coal. Uniformitarians commonly insist that all the coal in the world formed 280 to 300 million years ago.[5]
  2. An iron pot found within a lump of coal in Thomas, Oklahoma. The same consideration applies to this object as applies to the bell mentioned above.[5]
  3. The London Hammer, a hammer found in limestone in the Cretaceous stratum, supposedly 140 million years old.[5]
  4. An obvious notch, made with an ax, in a lump of petrified wood in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, USA.[5]

Human fossils

Fossilized human remains, especially any such remains found buried in deep time, are among the most striking evidences against the uniformitarian model.

  1. A fossilized human finger found in the Cretaceous Walnut Formation of the Commanche Peak limestone deposit.[5][6] The in situ provenance of the finger is lacking. But if this object proves genuine, then it might represent long-sought remains of a casualty of the Great Flood.
  2. Skulls and other bones found within coal.[4][7]
  3. Malachite Man, consisting of the remains of ten individuals in a supposed 140-million-year-old stratum. Some of the bones have been partially petrified with malachite, a peculiar greenish mineral. Petrified human bones would be even more likely to represent Flood casualties.[8]

Dinosaur-human cohabitation

These are artifacts, artworks, or physical signs that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together.

  1. Stone depictions of stegosaurus in Khmer temple art.[5][9]
  2. Clay figurines of obvious dinosaurs found at Acambaro, Mexico.[5][10]
  3. The Paluxy River tracks near Glen Rose, Texas, USA. Tracks of Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs are found side-by-side with human footprints. Some of these human footprints are giant sized.[1][11]
  4. Human shoe prints found associated with trilobites.[12]

Discussion

For a complete discussion on the possible significance of OOParts, see Essay: Out-of-place Artifacts, ET's, and the Great Flood.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Embedded Anomalies: Evidence of Civilization Before the Accepted Creation Timeline." The Bible-UFO Connection, accessed March 31, 2008
  2. ↑ Hodges, Bodie. "The Flood: Whom Do You Trust?" Lecture delivered at the Creation Museum and Family Discovery Center, Petersburg, Kentucky, USA, March 28, 2008.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named top10
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "OOParts and Ancient High Technology: Evidence of Noah's Flood?" Accessed March 31, 2008.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 "Ooparts (Out of Place Artifacts)." Discovery News. Accessed March 31, 2008.
  6. ↑ Lines, David. "The Fossilized Human Finger." Creation Evidence Museum online, 1995. Accessed March 31, 2008.
  7. ↑ Conrad, Ed. "Man as Old as Coal." Accessed March 31, 2008.
  8. ↑ Patton, Don. "Official World Site Malachite Man." The Interactive Bible. Accessed March 31, 2008.
  9. ↑ Patton, Don, and Swift, Dennis. "Dinosaurs in ancient Cambodian temple." The Interactive Bible. Accessed March 31, 2008.
  10. ↑ "Discovered: Thousands of Dinosaur Figurines from Mexico." Accessed March 31, 2008.
  11. ↑ Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Green Forest, AR: Master Books, p. 122.
  12. ↑ Brown, Walt. "In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood." Phoenix, AZ: Center for Scientific Creationism, 1995, p. 25. Accessed March 31, 2008.
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