Radiometric Dating

[Ashley-Star*Child]

RADIOMETRIC DATING

AND THE

FANTASY WORLD

OF

EVOLUTIONISTS.

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HOW EVOLUTIONISTS TAKE US BACK MILLIONS OF YEARS INTO THEIR FANTASY WORLD

WHAT IS THE TRUE AGE OF THE EARTH?

RADIOMETRIC DATING AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH.

ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS!

How many times do you hear on television or read in the newspapers that dinosaurs died out 60 million years ago? That this particular rock is 20 millions years old? You can be forgiven for believing them because they sound so convincing. They talk as if it was a proven fact - but it isn't! Quite the reverse. We'll talk about dinosaurs later but for now let's look at the methods of dating.

WE CAN CALCULATE THE EARTH'S AGE BY THE URANIUM-THORIUM-LEAD METHOD.

According to Doctor White the radio isotopes of uranium and thorium, found in some of the earth's rocks decay and they emit alpha particles, that are helium-4 nuclei. As these slow down they pick up electrons to form helium-4 atoms that find their way into the earth's atmosphere. This rate of helium-4 released into the atmosphere has been calculated by Henry Faul in his book; "Nuclear Geology". He says it has taken just over 11,000 years for this amount of helium-4 to be produced from the decay of the uranium and thorium that is in the earth's crust. If the earth was created with some helium-4 already present (a reasonable assumption!) then the age of the earth will be much less - agreed?

WHAT THE INBALANCE OF RADIO CARBON TELLS US ABOUT THE AGE OF THE EARTH.

Professor Melvin Cook in his book; "Prehistory and Earth Models", shows there is an inbalance of radio carbon showing the earth cannot be more than 10,500 years old. In the upper atmosphere, Professor Cook tells us, nitrogen is continually being bombarded by neutrons formed by cosmic radiation. The energy transmuted by these high energy nuclear reactions into carbon-14, a radioactive form of carbon also called radiocarbon. Newly formed, this combines with oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide which diffuses through the atmosphere and is assimilated by plants during photosynthesis[16]. Animals take up this radiocarbon through the food chain. When a plant of animal dies it is unable to take up further radiocarbon and the amount that is present diminishes due to radioactive decay. Doctor White insists that if the earth was older than 100,000 years the rate of reproduction of radiocarbon in the upper atmosphere would be equal to it's rate of disappearance from the biosphere[17] due to radioactive decay.

These rates are not equal. There is an inbalance between the rate of formulation of the radiocarbon and it's rate of disappearance from the biosphere. Professor Cook tells us this means the earth cannot be more than 10,500 years old.

Professor D. B. Gower D.Sc., Ph.D., C.Cchem., F.R.S.C., F.I.Biol., C.Biol. is an acknowledged expert in the field of Radiometric Dating methods. Let us see what he has to say[18] about the evolutionists fantasy world:

Numerous geochronometers (clocks) have been used to measure the age of the earth but there are at least two requirements for any clock. First, we must assume the clock has been running at the same rate throughout history. Remember we talked about the theory of uniformitarianism, that the rate things have happened have been constant from the beginning. Secondly, how tightly was the clock wound in the first place. Was there any cosmic dust present before the clock was wound up? A creationists would dispute both these assumptions. Evolutionists are assuming uniformitarianism applies - they're assuming no cosmic dust was present at the start. These are two very big assumptions and we creationists could end our argument here because their assumptions have no basis in fact - but we won't, we'll expose a bit more.

When I was at school my House Master told me never to assume anything and he wrote the word on the blackboard like this: "ASS/U/ME". "You see," he said, "the word tells you the result of doing so - it makes an ASS of U and ME!" This is just what is happening to these evolutionists!

Professor Gower tells us that radiometric dating gives vastly different values. (Don't forget, he's the expert) They vary by millions upon millions of years but they don't publish these figures in case evolution is seen for what it is - fantasy. I list one or two examples here:-

Sea salt - 50 to 90 million years.

Helium gas in the atmosphere - 26 million years.

Meteorites from their helium content - 60 million years but using the Potassium-Argon method - a staggering 4,600 million years!

"1470 Man" - 220 million years and 2,600,000 years.

"Nut Cracker Man" - 1,750,000 years but the but material from the same stratum only 1,000 years!

Moon rock dated 5.4 billion years (more than the estimated age of the moon) and 28.1 billion years (half as old again as their greatest estimated age of the universe!)

Recently erupted rocks dated 22 million years.

Hair on a mammoth 26,000 years yet the peat in which it was preserved only 5,600 years.

Living snails dated 27,000 years old using carbon 14.

An editorial in "Science" on January 8th, 1982 stated that; "Those who propound creationism....have no substantial body of experimental data to back their prejudices". WHAT AN AMAZING STATEMENT - THERE'S OODLES OF THE STUFF! Even the evidence that has so far gone into this thesis renders their statement incredulous! In addition to all the evidence gone into this thesis by the time to reach the end is still only a small part of evidence I could included. There is always a continual battle between what I should include and exclude!

We will examine in some detail the evidence of Professor Gower puts forward so that the case for creation can be understood. We will have to go back to school first!

Atoms of elements each consist of a nucleus containing protons (positively charged) and neutron (no charge) surrounded by electrons (negatively charged). The number of protons equals the number of electrons and the whole is rather like a miniature solar system. The number of electrons governs the reactivity of the element. Elements can exist in the form of isotopes, characterised by the same number of protons and electrons as the parent element but having a different number of neutrons, thus the mass number varies. The parent and isotope have similar chemical properties. Many isotopes decay. Actually they are converted to other elements and in so doing they radiate alpha-particles, beta-rays, or gamma-rays, which can be measured. A decay curve can be drawn for any isotope showing that after it's "half life", 50% of the isotope has been lost and after a further equal time, half of the remainder and so on. The "half-lives" of some of these isotopes used for radiometric dating are: Tritium 12.3 years, 14 Carbon 5,730 years, 40 Potassium 1,300 million years, 238Uranium 4,510 million years.

40Potassium and 238Uranium are found in rocks. We are now getting to the point. Professor Gower says this provides a means of dating if:

1. The half life is known and has been constant throughout time.

2. The amount of radioactivity in the sample is measured.

3. The amount of the product present is known.

4. The initial amount of the radioactive substance is determined (i.e., the amount present immediately after crystallisation of the material.) He says item 4 is impossible to arrive at because we cannot go back in time to analyse the material concerned. This renders the whole dating process unreliable.

There is a great deal of evidence to show that the half lives of isotopes have not been constant in the past. Professor Gower says, "Most people think that the amount of cosmic radiation has been constant for thousands of years but this is not true." There is no guarantee that the half life will remain constant in a rock that is open to the elements. He also expresses doubt in his writings that the initial amount of radioactive material and the amount of decay product are as assumed.

Professor Gower also expresses doubt about the reliability of the Uranium-Thorium-Lead method. Earlier we discussed Doctor Whites view, now let us hear what Gower has to say: He says this method has been used since 1907 but now is being superseded by the Potassium-Argon method. "It depends on the decay of the 238 Uranium isotope to give eventually lead and helium. It is not known if part of the product leads were produced by some other method, apart from radioactive decay and...that some of the lead isotopes may have been present initially - no one knows."

He also goes on to explain that helium, being a light gas, can escape readily from the rocks into the atmosphere and that 238Uranium can be leached out of rocks, even granite. He says that 10,000 to 50,000 tons of uranium are washed into the sea annually.

If a mineral was found to contain a certain amount of the initial isotope 238Uranium which had in fact been depleted by weathering AND decay, the mineral would appear older by an enormous and indeterminate amount. The same applies if the product helium were being measured.

CAN YOU SEE HOW UNRELIABLE THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS?

POTASSIUM-ARGON METHOD.

This is the method seen to be more reliable and used more recently. Professor Gower tells us that the isotope 40Potassium changes into 40Argon(11%) and 40Calcium(89%). As you can see two products have been formed, a minor and a major, the so called "branching ratio". This has not been measured with any certainty and the value used can alter the age value of the mineral concerned by a large amount. The isotope of calcium is not useful to measure, as calsium is so common in rocks. 40Argon is always used for age determination. Here there are many problems:

1. The amount of 40Argon in the earth's atmosphere is 100 times too high for it to have been produced by radioactive decay of 40Potassium even if 4,500 million years are invoked! Therefore, much of this must have been there initially which is what Creationists say.

Note this: I heard on BBC television 6-0 pm news, 11th February 1997 an evolutionist scientist saying as there is too much 40Argon in the atmosphere. He said the general feeling is that the universe must be older than they thought. It must be "10 billion years old or even 15 billion". This is an amazing statement and the gullible public just accept it. It's "think of a number time". Why not 20 or 30 billion years if that fits the evolutionist's fantasies? They've made up their minds that evolution is a fact so they don't have to believe in God and they will say anything to convince people. WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL THE WORD "SCIENCE" MEANT "KNOWLEDGE" NOT "FANTASY".

2. 40Argon defuses easily from rocks, depending on the porosity of the surface and prevailing pressure. Rocks deeper in the earth's crust where pressure is higher, will lose 40Argon to rocks nearer the surface where pressure is lower. It will also be lost to different degrees from different types of minerals. It does not take a scientists to understand that the rocks at the surface will have a higher 40Argon content than those below - agreed? Guess which rocks are used to determine the age of the earth? - That's right, you're ahead of me! The rocks nearer the surface will suggest a greater age than is accurate.

3. Volcanic rocks have inherited 40Argon from the earth's magma (molten core) in formation. This would suggest a vast age for those that have erupted into the sea. Rocks at the ocean bed near Hawaii were dated 22 million years by the Potassium-Argon method but the lava flow is known to have occurred less than 200 years ago!

4. Potassium is easily washed out of minerals. An iron meteorite lost 80% of it's potassium by running distilled water over it for 4.5 hours. Rocks subject to weathering conditions lose potassium thus indicating that the 40Potassium has had vast ages in which to decay to these very small values.

Similar criticisms have been levelled at the Rubidium-Strontium method by many writers but space does not permit a detailed discussion here. The point has already been well made.

"ZINANTHROPUS BOSEII" (Nutcracker Man to you and I.) Mentioned earlier he was dated by the Potassium-Argon method but not by dating the bones themselves as is generally believed, says Professor Gower, but by dating the rock stratum in which the remains were found. It gives 1.75 million years for the stratum above, 1.5 million years for the stratum below and for the layer of basalt below that as 1 million years or less. If the evolutionists are right, as they claim, the ages are the wrong way around as the lower stratum should be the older. However, what an enormous variation in ages by the same method. Creationists would dispute ages anything like this, of course but to be 750,000 years out by there own standards shows how unreliable the system is.

14CARBON DATING. Before we leave the work of Professor Gower we are going to look at the better known "Carbon 14" dating method. It is made from nitrogen gas in the upper atmosphere through neutron bombardment from powerful cosmic radiation and converted into 14Carbon dioxide. It finds it's way into living things and is fixed at death.

Professor Gower says certain assumptions have to be made when dating archaeological finds. For example that the half-life has not varied which is unwarranted because there is evidence to show the opposite with 238Uranium and 57Iron.

Secondly, the rate of formation and concentration of 14Carbon is claimed to have been constant but this is nonsense. Since the industrial revolution more ordinary carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere. Then in 1950 the testing of atomic devices began to release neutrons thus increasing the 14Carbon content.

Thirdly, the amount of cosmic radiation reaching the earth's atmosphere cannot be assumed constant throughout world history. It is certain there was a water vapour canopy shielding the earth, says the Professor. (Remember this when later we discuss the earth's climate.) This will have reduced the amount of cosmic radiation entering the earth's atmosphere so less 14Carbon would have been formed prior to the precipitation of water at the flood resulting in considerable over estimate of the earth's age.

It has now been generally accepted that C14 is only suitable for dating up to between 5 and 10,000 years ago. We will return to 14Carbon dating later when we discuss geology in more detail and see how the geological record supports the earth being only a few thousand years old.

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED SO FAR:

According to the laws of science, evolution cannot possibly have taken place.

Evolution is mathematical nonsense.

Evolution is only a belief peddled as science when it is only atheistic propaganda.

The Bible said the earth is a ball hanging in space when others said it was flat.

The earth's magnetic field proves it is only thousands of years old.

Theories on how the moon came into being cannot possibly have happened.

The moon is only a few thousand years old - proved by lunar dust.

Comets prove the universe is only a few thousand years old.

Globular clusters prove the universe to be young.

Spiral galaxies prove the earth to be young.

Galaxy clusters prove the earth to be young.

The earth's rotation proves the earth is only a few thousand years old.

Sediment in the oceans prove the earth to be only a few thousand years old.

Radiometric dating is grossly inaccurate.

An inbalance of radiocarbon proves the earth is no more than 10,500 years old.

Various dating methods are shown to be wildly inaccurate.

MANY EMINENT SCIENTISTS DO NOT ACCEPT EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND BELIEVE THE BIBLE ACCOUNT OF CREATION.

[16] Photosynthesis: The building up of complex compounds by means of chlorophyll apparatus of plants by means of energy of light.

[17] Biosphere: The part of the earth in which living things are found.

[18] Professor Gower is a member of the Creation Science Movement and has written a pamphlet on this subject.

 

I will also add an article about scientists who are NOT Creationists, and DON'T believe in Darwinism because it has been proven wrong, by them, if asked.

Source Link: http://www.enlightened.org.uk/ev04-radiometric.html

Edited March 24, 2005 by Ashley-Star*Child

[hyperactive]

Evidence Supporting Biological Evolution

the debate could go on forever.

the fact is that the evidence supports an old earth and evolution as of now. Science, of course, accepts that what is supported now is the best we can support given current knowledge. When we know more, the theories will change or have even more support.

[Unorthodox Thesis]

Yes, the debate will go on forever. But its been already proven that Radiometric Dating is very innacurate. Thats all Im gonna say. I believe evolution is possible, but I don't believe that we evolved.

[Me_Again]

Humans Are evolving, some may be devolving - who can tell

[P4P3R T1G3R2]

Humans Are evolving, some may be devolving - who can tell 

537742[/snapback]

Yea...My uncle Bob has been going to the beach a lot, he's growing a tail and becoming a mermaid. He might be a whale someday.

[hyperactive]

Humans Are evolving, some may be devolving - who can tell 

537742[/snapback]

Yea...My uncle Bob has been going to the beach a lot, he's growing a tail and becoming a mermaid. He might be a whale someday.

537756[/snapback]

thanks for the laugh!

[Shadow82]

It's funny you mentioned all these things we've supposidly learned so far but you only backed up part of them. I'm not saying that the methods of dating are accurate but if you ask any pofessor they will tell you the same thing. This is the best scientific estimate they can make with what they know now. Now stay with me on this I read your letter now please take the time to read mine. If you believe that the earth is only approximately 10,500 years old then please explain some basic concepts. I can get technical and sound convincing but let's stay simple. First, explain the basic geography of the Earth. Especially all the evidence that the Earth was once a single continent. This includes the relationship of the creation of the mountains on North and South America (Appalachain and Andes) that align and the fact that similar plants and animal fossils can be found in both places. We know, because we can physically measure the speed of the shifts of tectonic plates, how fast continents move. If your theory is correct then there is no way that these continents could have ever met. Also you mention that the Earth's magnetic field shows that the Earth cannot be over 10,000 years old. Did the proffessor take into consideration that the Earth's magnetic field is known to drasticlly change from one pole to another approximately every 10,000 years. In case your wondering this can be found by looking at minerals that line up toward the north pole when created in the ocean. The mid ocean ridge creates new rocks constantly and is constantly pushing those rocks out as the plates seperate. Since we know the speed of the plates movements we can calculate how old sections of rocks are and it is found that every 10,000 years the minerals switch poles. Next, if the bible creation story is true and tells the creation of the Earth why would it leave out dinasaurs?. I believe there is a simple solution, the creation story is a metaphor of the actual creation. Not many people ever think that the two could be the same. Let's think for a minute, When the universe was created God spoke, the big bang? Why would this story be written in the bible instead of the actual creation process. Simple, look at who was recieving this information, how could you possibly relate the complex and tedious truth behind creation to an average person, plus if God was to tell the whole story of creation the book would be of unbelievable length and no person could read and know the story, much less write it. So instead you use metaphores that have meaning and can be interpreted as knowledge grows.

[Ashley-Star*Child]

I'd say it's closer to 15,000 years old, and nothing you've said can be proven. No human has evolved from the first civillization to now.

Here's is the article on anti-evolutionist and non-creationist scientists.

Archaeological Cover-ups

-- A Plot to Control History? --

The scientific establishment tends to reject, suppress or ignore evidence that conflicts with accepted theories, while denigrating or persecuting the messenger.

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"THE BRAIN POLICE" AND "THE BIG LIE"

Any time you allege a conspiracy is afoot, especially in the field of science, you are treading on thin ice. We tend to be very sceptical about conspiracies--unless the Mafia or some Muslim radicals are behind the alleged plot. But the evidence is overwhelming and the irony is that much of it is in plain view.

The good news is that the players are obvious. Their game plan and even their play-by-play tactics are transparent, once you learn to spot them. However, it is not so easy to penetrate through the smokescreen of propaganda and disinformation to get to their underlying motives and goals. It would be convenient if we could point to a plumber's unit and a boldface liar like Richard Nixon, but this is a more subtle operation.

The bad news: the conspiracy is global and there are many vested interest groups. A cursory investigation yields the usual suspects: scientists with a theoretical axe to grind, careers to further and the status quo to maintain. Their modus operandi is "The Big Lie"--and the bigger and more widely publicised, the better. They rely on invoking their academic credentials to support their arguments, and the presumption is that no one has the right to question their authoritarian pronouncements that:

1. there is no mystery about who built the Great Pyramid or what the methods of construction were, and the Sphinx shows no signs of water damage;

2. there were no humans in the Americas before 20,000 BC;

3. the first civilisation dates back no further than 6000 BC;

4. there are no documented anomalous, unexplained or enigmatic data to take into account;

5. there are no lost or unaccounted-for civilisations.

Let the evidence to the contrary be damned!

Personal Attacks: Dispute over Age of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid

In 1993, NBC in the USA aired The Mysteries of the Sphinx, which presented geological evidence showing that the Sphinx was at least twice as old (9,000 years) as Egyptologists claimed. It has become well known as the "water erosion controversy". An examination of the politicking that Egyptologists deployed to combat this undermining of their turf is instructive.

Self-taught Egyptologist John Anthony West brought the water erosion issue to the attention of geologist Dr Robert Schoch. They went to Egypt and launched an intensive on-site investigation. After thoroughly studying the Sphinx first hand, the geologist came to share West's preliminary conclusion and they announced their findings.

Dr Zahi Hawass, the Giza Monuments chief, wasted no time in firing a barrage of public criticism at the pair. Renowned Egyptologist Dr Mark Lehner, who is regarded as the world's foremost expert on the Sphinx, joined his attack. He charged West and Schoch with being "ignorant and insensitive". That was a curious accusation which took the matter off the professional level and put the whole affair on a personal plane. It did not address the facts or issues at all and it was highly unscientific.

But we must note the standard tactic of discrediting anyone who dares to call the accepted theories into question. Shifting the focus away from the issues and "personalising" the debate is a highly effective strategy--one which is often used by politicians who feel insecure about their positions. Hawass and Lehner invoked their untouchable status and presumed authority. (One would think that a geologist's assessment would hold more weight on this particular point.)

A short time later, Schoch, Hawass and Lehner were invited to debate the issue at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. West was not allowed to participate because he lacked the required credentials.

This points to a questionable assumption that is part of the establishment's arsenal: only degreed scientists can practise science. Two filters keep the uncredentialled, independent researcher out of the loop: (1) credentials, and (2) peer review. You do not get to number two unless you have number one.

Science is a method that anyone can learn and apply. It does not require a degree to observe and record facts and think critically about them, especially in the non-technical social sciences. In a free and open society, science has to be a democratic process.

Be that as it may, West was barred. The elements of the debate have been batted back and forth since then without resolution. It is similar to the controversy over who built the Giza pyramids and how.

This brings up the issue of The Big Lie and how it has been promoted for generations in front of God and everyone. The controversy over how the Great Pyramid was constructed is one example. It could be easily settled if Egyptologists wanted to resolve the dispute. A simple test could be designed and arranged by impartial engineers that would either prove or disprove their longstanding disputed theory--that it was built using the primitive tools and methods of the day, circa 2500 BC.

Why hasn't this been done? The answer is so obvious, it seems impossible: they know that the theory is bogus. Could a trained, highly educated scientist really believe that 2.3 million tons of stone, some blocks weighing 70 tons, could have been transported and lifted by primitive methods? That seems improbable, though they have no compunction against lying to the public, writing textbooks and defending this theory against alternative theories. However, we must note that they will not subject themselves to the bottom-line test.

We think it is incumbent upon any scientist to bear the burden of proof of his/her thesis; however, the social scientists who make these claims have never stood up to that kind of scrutiny. That is why we must suspect a conspiracy. No other scientific discipline would get away with bending the rules of science. All that Egyptologists have ever done is bat down alternative theories using underhanded tactics. It is time to insist that they prove their own proposals.

Why would scientists try to hide the truth and avoid any test of their hypothesis? Their motivations are equally transparent. If it can be proved that the Egyptians did not build the Great Pyramid in 2500 BC using primitive methods, or if the Sphinx can be dated to 9000 BC, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Orthodox views of cultural evolution are based upon a chronology of civilisation having started in Sumeria no earlier than 4000 BC. The theory does not permit an advanced civilisation to have existed prior to that time. End of discussion. Archaeology and history lose their meaning without a fixed timeline as a point of reference.

Since the theory of "cultural evolution" has been tied to Darwin's general theory of evolution, even more is at stake. Does this explain why facts, anomalies and enigmas are denied, suppressed and/or ignored? Yes, it does. The biological sciences today are based on Darwinism.

Pressure Tactics: The Ica Stones of Peru

Now we turn to another, very different case. In 1966, Dr Javier Cabrera received a stone as a gift from a poor local farmer in his native Ica, Peru. A fish was carved on the stone, which would not have meant much to the average villager but it did mean a lot to the educated Dr Cabrera. He recognised it as a long-extinct species. This aroused his curiosity. He purchased more stones from the farmer, who said he had collected them near the river after a flood.

Dr Cabrera accumulated more and more stones, and word of their existence and potential import reached the archaeological community. Soon, the doctor had amassed thousands of "Ica stones". The sophisticated carvings were as enigmatic as they were fascinating. Someone had carved men fighting with dinosaurs, men with telescopes and men performing operations with surgical equipment. They also contained drawings of lost continents.

Several of the stones were sent to Germany and the etchings were dated to remote antiquity. But we all know that men could not have lived at the time of dinosaurs; Homo sapiens has only existed for about 100,000 years.

The BBC got wind of this discovery and swooped down to produce a documentary about the Ica stones. The media exposure ignited a storm of controversy. Archaeologists criticised the Peruvian government for being lax about enforcing antiquities laws (but that was not their real concern). Pressure was applied to government officials.

The farmer who had been selling the stones to Cabrera was arrested; he claimed to have found them in a cave but refused to disclose the exact location to authorities, or so they claimed.

This case was disposed of so artfully that it would do any corrupt politician proud. The Peruvian government threatened to prosecute and imprison the farmer. He was offered and accepted a plea bargain; he then recanted his story and "admitted" to having carved the stones himself. That seems highly implausible, since he was uneducated and unskilled and there were 11,000 stones in all. Some were fairly large and intricately carved with animals and scenes that the farmer would not have had knowledge of without being a palaeontologist. He would have needed to work every day for several decades to produce that volume of stones. However, the underlying facts were neither here nor there. The Ica stones were labelled "hoax" and forgotten.

The case did not require a head-to-head confrontation or public discrediting of non-scientists by scientists; it was taken care of with invisible pressure tactics. Since it was filed under "hoax", the enigmatic evidence never had to be dealt with, as it did in the next example.

Censorship of "Forbidden" Thinking: Evidence for Mankind's Great Antiquity

The case of author Michael Cremo is well documented, and it also demonstrates how the scientific establishment openly uses pressure tactics on the media and government. His book Forbidden Archeology examines many previously ignored examples of artifacts that prove modern man's antiquity far exceeds the age given in accepted chronologies.

The examples which he and his co-author present are controversial, but the book became far more controversial than the contents when it was used in a documentary.

In 1996, NBC broadcast a special called The Mysterious Origins of Man, which featured material from Cremo's book. The reaction from the scientific community went off the Richter scale. NBC was deluged with letters from irate scientists who called the producer "a fraud" and the whole program "a hoax".

But the scientists went further than this--a lot further. In an extremely unconscionable sequence of bizarre moves, they tried to force NBC not to rebroadcast the popular program, but that effort failed. Then they took the most radical step of all: they presented their case to the federal government and requested the Federal Communications Commission to step in and bar NBC from airing the program again.

This was not only an apparent infringement of free speech and a blatant attempt to thwart commerce, it was an unprecedented effort to censor intellectual discourse. If the public or any government agency made an attempt to handcuff the scientific establishment, the public would never hear the end of it.

The letter to the FCC written by Dr Allison Palmer, President of the Institute for Cambrian Studies, is revealing:

At the very least, NBC should be required to make substantial prime-time apologies to their viewing audience for a sufficient period of time so that the audience clearly gets the message that they were duped. In addition, NBC should perhaps be fined sufficiently so that a major fund for public science education can be established.

I think we have some good leads on who "the Brain Police" are. And I really do not think "conspiracy" is too strong a word--because for every case of this kind of attempted suppression that is exposed, 10 others are going on successfully. We have no idea how many enigmatic artifacts or dates have been labelled "error" and tucked away in storage warehouses or circular files, never to see the light of day.

Data Rejection: Inconvenient Dating in Mexico

Then there is the high-profile case of Dr Virginia Steen-McIntyre, a geologist working for the US Geological Survey (USGS), who was dispatched to an archaeological site in Mexico to date a group of artifacts in the 1970s. This travesty also illustrates how far established scientists will go to guard orthodox tenets.

McIntyre used state-of-the-art equipment and backed up her results by using four different methods, but her results were off the chart. The lead archaeologist expected a date of 25,000 years or less, and the geologist's finding was 250,000 years or more.

The figure of 25,000 years or less was critical to the Bering Strait "crossing" theory, and it was the motivation behind the head archaeologist's tossing Steen-McIntyre's results in the circular file and asking for a new series of dating tests. This sort of reaction does not occur when dates match the expected chronological model that supports accepted theories.

Steen-McIntyre was given a chance to retract her conclusions, but she refused. She found it hard thereafter to get her papers published and she lost a teaching job at an American university.

Government Suppression and Ethnocentrism: Avoiding Anomalous Evidence in NZ, China and Mexico

In New Zealand, the government actually stepped in and enacted a law forbidding the public from entering a controversial archaeological zone. This story appeared in the book, Ancient Celtic New Zealand, by Mark Doutré.

However, as we will find (and as I promised at the beginning of the article), this is a complicated conspiracy. Scientists trying to protect their "hallowed" theories while furthering their careers are not the only ones who want artifacts and data suppressed. This is where the situation gets sticky.

The Waipoua Forest became a controversial site in New Zealand because an archaeological dig apparently showed evidence of a non-Polynesian culture that preceded the Maori--a fact that the tribe was not happy with. They learned of the results of the excavations before the general public did and complained to the government. According to Doutré, the outcome was "an official archival document, which clearly showed an intention by New Zealand government departments to withhold archaeological information from public scrutiny for 75 years".

The public got wind of this fiasco but the government denied the claim. However, official documents show that an embargo had been placed on the site. Doutré is a student of New Zealand history and archaeology. He is concerned because he says that artifacts proving that there was an earlier culture which preceded the Maori are missing from museums. He asks what happened to several anomalous remains:

Where are the ancient Indo-European hair samples (wavy red brown hair), originally obtained from a rock shelter near Watakere, that were on display at the Auckland War Memorial Museum for many years? Where is the giant skeleton found near Mitimati?

Unfortunately this is not the only such incident. Ethnocentrism has become a factor in the conspiracy to hide mankind's true history. Author Graham Hancock has been attacked by various ethnic groups for reporting similar enigmatic findings.

The problem for researchers concerned with establishing humanity's true history is that the goals of nationalists or ethnic groups who want to lay claim to having been in a particular place first, often dovetail with the goals of cultural evolutionists.

Archaeologists are quick to go along with suppressing these kinds of anomalous finds. One reason Egyptologists so jealously guard the Great Pyramid's construction date has to do with the issue of national pride.

The case of the Takla Makan Desert mummies in western China is another example of this phenomenon. In the 1970s and 1980s, an unaccounted-for Caucasian culture was suddenly unearthed in China. The arid environment preserved the remains of a blond-haired, blue-eyed people who lived in pre-dynastic China. They wore colourful robes, boots, stockings and hats. The Chinese were not happy about this revelation and they have downplayed the enigmatic find, even though Asians were found buried alongside the Caucasian mummies.

National Geographic writer Thomas B. Allen mused in a 1996 article about his finding a potsherd bearing a fingerprint of the potter. When he inquired if he could take the fragment to a forensic anthropologist, the Chinese scientist asked whether he "would be able to tell if the potter was a white man". Allen said he was not sure, and the official pocketed the fragment and quietly walked away. It appears that many things get in the way of scientific discovery and disclosure.

The existence of the Olmec culture in Old Mexico has always posed a problem. Where did the Negroid people depicted on the colossal heads come from? Why are there Caucasians carved on the stele in what is Mexico's seed civilisation? What is worse, why aren't the indigenous Mexican people found on the Olmec artifacts? Recently a Mexican archaeologist solved the problem by making a fantastic claim: that the Olmec heads--which generations of people of all ethnic groups have agreed bear a striking resemblance to Africans--were really representations of the local tribe.

STORMTROOPERS FOR DARWINISM

The public does not seem at all aware of the fact that the scientific establishment has a double standard when it comes to the free flow of information. In essence, it goes like this... Scientists are highly educated, well trained and intellectually capable of processing all types of information, and they can make the correct critical distinctions between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy. The unwashed public is simply incapable of functioning on this high mental plane.

The noble ideal of the scientist as a highly trained, impartial, apolitical observer and assembler of established facts into a useful body of knowledge seems to have been shredded under the pressures and demands of the real world. Science has produced many positive benefits for society; but we should know by now that science has a dark, negative side. Didn't those meek fellows in the clean lab coats give us nuclear bombs and biological weapons? The age of innocence ended in World War II.

That the scientific community has an attitude of intellectual superiority is thinly veiled under a carefully orchestrated public relations guise. We always see Science and Progress walking hand in hand. Science as an institution in a democratic society has to function in the same way as the society at large; it should be open to debate, argument and counter-argument. There is no place for unquestioned authoritarianism. Is modern science meeting these standards?

In the Fall of 2001, PBS aired a seven-part series, titled Evolution. Taken at face value, that seems harmless enough. However, while the program was presented as pure, objective, investigative science journalism, it completely failed to meet even minimum standards of impartial reporting. The series was heavily weighted towards the view that the theory of evolution is "a science fact" that is accepted by "virtually all reputable scientists in the world", and not a theory that has weaknesses and strong scientific critics.

The series did not even bother to interview scientists who have criticisms of Darwinism: not "creationists" but bona fide scientists. To correct this deficiency, a group of 100 dissenting scientists felt compelled to issue a press release, "A Scientific Dissent on Darwinism", on the day the first program was scheduled to go to air. Nobel nominee Henry "Fritz" Schaefer was among them. He encouraged open public debate of Darwin's theory:

Some defenders of Darwinism embrace standards of evidence for evolution that as scientists they would never accept in other circumstances.

We have seen this same "unscientific" approach applied to archaeology and anthropology, where "scientists" simply refuse to prove their theories yet appoint themselves as the final arbiters of "the facts". It would be naive to think that the scientists who cooperated in the production of the series were unaware that there would be no counter-balancing presentation by critics of Darwin's theory.

Richard Milton is a science journalist. He had been an ardent true believer in Darwinian doctrine until his investigative instincts kicked in one day. After 20 years of studying and writing about evolution, he suddenly realised that there were many disconcerting holes in the theory. He decided to try to allay his doubts and prove the theory to himself by using the standard methods of investigative journalism.

Milton became a regular visitor to London's famed Natural History Museum. He painstakingly put every main tenet and classic proof of Darwinism to the test. The results shocked him. He found that the theory could not even stand up to the rigours of routine investigative journalism.

The veteran science writer took a bold step and published a book titled The Facts of Life: Shattering the Myths of Darwinism. It is clear that the Darwinian myth had been shattered for him, but many more myths about science would also be crushed after his book came out. Milton says:

I experienced the witch-hunting activity of the Darwinist police at first hand.it was deeply disappointing to find myself being described by a prominent Oxford zoologist [Richard Dawkins] as "loony", "stupid" and "in need of psychiatric help" in response to purely scientific reporting.

(Does this sound like stories that came out of the Soviet Union 20 years ago when dissident scientists there started speaking out?)

Dawkins launched a letter-writing campaign to newspaper editors, implying that Milton was a "mole" creationist whose work should be dismissed. Anyone at all familiar with politics will recognise this as a standard Machiavellian by-the-book "character assassination" tactic. Dawkins is a highly respected scientist, whose reputation and standing in the scientific community carry a great deal of weight.

According to Milton, the process came to a head when the London Times Higher Education Supplement commissioned him to write a critique of Darwinism. The publication foreshadowed his coming piece: "Next Week: Darwinism - Richard Milton goes on the attack". Dawkins caught wind of this and wasted no time in nipping this heresy in the bud. He contacted the editor, Auriol Stevens, and accused Milton of being a "creationist", and prevailed upon Stevens to pull the plug on the article. Milton learned of this behind-the-scenes backstabbing and wrote a letter of appeal to Stevens. In the end, she caved in to Dawkins and scratched the piece.

Imagine what would happen if a politician or bureaucrat used such pressure tactics to kill a story in the mass media. It would ignite a huge scandal. Not so with scientists, who seem to be regarded as "sacred cows" and beyond reproach. There are many disturbing facts related to these cases. Darwin's theory of evolution is the only theory routinely taught in our public school system that has never been subjected to rigorous scrutiny; nor have any of the criticisms been allowed into the curriculum.

This is an interesting fact, because a recent poll showed that the American public wants the theory of evolution taught to their children; however, "71 per cent of the respondents say biology teachers should teach both Darwinism and scientific evidence against Darwinian theory". Nevertheless, there are no plans to implement this balanced approach.

It is ironic that Richard Dawkins has been appointed to the position of Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is a classic "Brain Police" stormtrooper, patrolling the neurological front lines. The Western scientific establishment and mass media pride themselves on being open public forums devoid of prejudice or censorship. However, no television program examining the flaws and weaknesses of Darwinism has ever been aired in Darwin's home country or in America. A scientist who opposes the theory cannot get a paper published.

The Mysterious Origins of Man was not a frontal attack on Darwinism; it merely presented evidence that is considered anomalous by the precepts of his theory of evolution.

Returning to our bastions of intellectual integrity, Forest Mims was a solid and skilled science journalist. He had never been the centre of any controversy and so he was invited to write the most-read column in the prestigious Scientific American, "The Amateur Scientist", a task he gladly accepted. According to Mims, the magazine's editor Jonathan Piel then learned that he also wrote articles for a number of Christian magazines. The editor called Mims into his office and confronted him.

"Do you believe in the theory of evolution?" Piel asked.

Mims replied, "No, and neither does Stephen Jay Gould."

His response did not affect Piel's decision to bump Mims off the popular column after just three articles.

This has the unpleasant odour of a witch-hunt. The writer never publicly broadcast his private views or beliefs, so it would appear that the "stormtroopers" now believe they have orders to make sure "unapproved" thoughts are never publicly disclosed.

TABOO OR NOT TABOO?

So, the monitors of "good thinking" are not just the elite of the scientific community, as we have seen in several cases; they are television producers and magazine editors as well. It seems clear that they are all driven by the singular imperative of furthering "public science education", as the president of the Cambrian Institute so aptly phrased it.

However, there is a second item on the agenda, and that is to protect the public from "unscientific" thoughts and ideas that might infect the mass mind. We outlined some of those taboo subjects at the beginning of the article; now we should add that it is also "unwholesome" and "unacceptable" to engage in any of the following research pursuits: paranormal phenomena, UFOs, cold fusion, free energy and all the rest of the "pseudo-sciences". Does this have a familiar ring to it? Are we hearing the faint echoes of religious zealotry?

Who ever gave science the mission of engineering and directing the inquisitive pursuits of the citizenry of the free world? It is all but impossible for any scientific paper that has anti-Darwinian ramifications to be published in a mainstream scientific journal. It is also just as impossible to get the "taboo" subjects even to the review table, and you can forget about finding your name under the title of any article in Nature unless you are a credentialled scientist, even if you are the next Albert Einstein.

To restate how this conspiracy begins, it is with two filters: credentials and peer review. Modern science is now a maze of such filters set up to promote certain orthodox theories and at the same time filter out that data already prejudged to be unacceptable. Evidence and merit are not the guiding principles; conformity and position within the established community have replaced objectivity, access and openness.

Scientists do not hesitate to launch the most outrageous personal attacks against those they perceive to be the enemy. Eminent palaeontologist Louis Leakey penned this acid one-liner about Forbidden Archeology: "Your book is pure humbug and does not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone but a fool." Once again, we see the thrust of a personal attack; the merits of the evidence presented in the book are not examined or debated. It is a blunt, authoritarian pronouncement.

In a forthcoming instalment, we will examine some more documented cases and delve deeper into the subtler dimensions of the conspiracy.

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References and Resources:

Cremo, Michael A. and Richard L. Thompson, Forbidden Archeology, Govardhan Hill, USA, 1993.

Cremo, Michael A., "The Controversy over 'The Mysterious Origins of Man'", NEXUS 5/04, 1998; Forbidden Archeology's Impact, Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing, USA, 1998, website http://www.mcremo.com.

Doore, Kathy, "The Nazca Spaceport & the Ica Stones of Peru", http://www.labyrinthina.com/ica.htm; see website for copy of Dr Javier Cabrera's book, The Message of the Engraved Stones.

Doutré, Mark, Ancient Celtic New Zealand, Dé Danann, New Zealand, 1999, website http://www.celticnz.co.nz.

Milton, Richard, The Facts of Life: Shattering the Myths of Darwinism, Corgi, UK, 1993, http://www.alternativescience.com.

Steen-McIntyre, Virginia, "Suppressed Evidence for Ancient Man in Mexico", NEXUS 5/05, 1998.

Sunfellow, David, "The Great Pyramid & The Sphinx", November 25, 1994, at http://www.nhne.com/specialrepots/spyramid.html.

Tampa Bay Tribune, October 12, 2001 (Darwinism/evolution quote), http://www.tampatrib.com.

About the Author:

Will Hart is a freelance journalist, book author, nature photographer and documentary filmmaker. He lives and does much of his research in the Lake Tahoe area in the USA, and writes a column titled "The Tahoe Naturalist" for a regional publication. He has produced and directed films about wolves and wild horses.

Source Link: http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/arcoverups.html

Edited March 24, 2005 by Ashley-Star*Child

[Shadow82]

I have yet to see an answer for any of my questions. Also there I hate to burst your bubble but there is proof that humans have evolved since advanced civilization. We are constantly evolving, you have to realize it takes hundreds of thousands of years to evolve so naturally the evolution of the human race that can be seen since civilization is small considering we've only had civilizations for approximately 10000 years. On example is height, the average human is on average approximately 2-4inches taller than even 2000 years ago. Also our brain sizes are larger than humans 5000 years ago. Also look at the different heights and body builds of different ethnic groups. They are not major differences but they are differences. I'm not saying that humans evolved from apes, and if you read his documents carefully neither did Darwin, but we have evolved and are evolving slowly.

[Podge Abrillion]

Hello. Just reading your article's, which are nothing if not comprehensive! A few of the issues raised piquen my interest, and so I hit the library(electronically, natrually:-)) and done a little research. Firstly, I should point out that I am a full beliver in the old earth theory. All that happens in the world today seems to conform to natrual laws. Hence, ff God was to create the Earth, why shouldn't he do it properly, by the same natral laws which are kept so rigidly now. The earth appears to be very, very old. It probably is! What, after all, is time for a God? Perhaps the Universe just needed a few Billion years to mature, sort of like a good wine. One thing is for certain, a god would have allowed those few billion years to pass, rather than just making it look like they had.

Anyway, I checked out those Ica stones, and here's what I found. Firstly, some very interesting things turned up! A quick Google provided little for me to go on, other than exciteible websites whose other articles pointed to the current established political regieme as being controlled by lizards. A little further searching, however, showed up some rather intresting pictures, those these could of course be frauds. On of the most quoted lines, besides that there were carving of people riding dinosaurs, was that one carving showed a cessarian section taking place, with acupuncture needles being sed for sedation. Rather than describing this picture, I have instead attached it! Which I hope works...

Anyway, as you can see, the image, whilst startling, is hardly conclusive. The images are a little unspecific, and prehaps are of somehting else, such as a sacrifice? And should acupuncture be done directly into someones mouth like that? Perhaps those are the protursions of straw or grass from some description of a gag? Who knows. Also, for a supposedly advanced civilisation, why were the carvings done in such a basic style, which seems to me more reminiscint of pre Hellenistic period Greece. (Though the style certainly has many south amercian stylistic touches.)

As for the pics of Dinosaurs and what not, I'll let you find these yourselves, as researching something like this is always fun!

[Ashley-Star*Child]

I missed your post before.

the fact is that the evidence supports an old earth and evolution as of now. Science, of course, accepts that what is supported now is the best we can support given current knowledge. When we know more, the theories will change or have even more support.

That is EXACTLY what science is SUPPOSED TO DO. Thank you. I'll still debate over young Earth, but the fact is, when more evidence comes in, by fact of 'scaring' people out of looking for eviendce of a young Earth, MANY (but not all) evolutionists are totally ignoring what science IS. Science is NOT a religion. Science is NOT a belief-system. Evolution however is quickly becoming just that. Science is a study of FACTS, and is neither for NOR against religion.

I have yet to see an answer for any of my questions. Also there I hate to burst your bubble but there is proof that humans have evolved since advanced civilization. We are constantly evolving, you have to realize it takes hundreds of thousands of years to evolve so naturally the evolution of the human race that can be seen since civilization is small considering we've only had civilizations for approximately 10000 years. On example is height, the average human is on average approximately 2-4inches taller than even 2000 years ago. Also our brain sizes are larger than humans 5000 years ago. Also look at the different heights and body builds of different ethnic groups. They are not major differences but they are differences. I'm not saying that humans evolved from apes, and if you read his documents carefully neither did Darwin, but we have evolved and are evolving slowly.

I hate to burst your bubble but that is NOT Darwinism evolution. That micro-evolution, much of which has occured from the mixing of races.

Edited March 28, 2005 by Ashley-Star*Child