Hammer found in Cretaceous rock (75 to 100 million years old)

Here's a picture of the hammer:



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Here's some more fact's that go along with the original author's story:

Max Hahn was fishing with his family near London, Texas in June of 1936 when he found a rock with wood protruding from it. When the rock was cracked open, this octagonally shaped iron hammer was exposed. The wood handle appears to be
partially coalified and has quartz and calcite crystalline inclusions. Tests performed at Battelle Laboratory document the hammer's unusual metallurgy: 96% iron, 2.6 % chlorine and 0.74 % sulfur (no carbon). Density tests indicate a casting of exceptional quality.

And goes on to note:

The enclosing rock contains Lower Cretaceous fossils. It is a concretionary sandstone nodule. The nearby cliff is made up of concretionary sandstone nodules which look exactly like the one encasing the hammer. If this nodule, with the hammer, did indeed come from the nearby cliff, evolutionary theory would have to be abandoned by the intellectually honest. This cliff is part of the Lower Cretaceous Edwards Plateau which evolutionists tell us was formed about 140 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Of course, the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs would destroy evolutionary theory.

Which explains what the rock was that the hammer was found in..

Here's where the hammer was found...
Here's the area where it was found...
And the cliff it supposivly came from..

This cliff is part of the Lower Cretaceous Edwards Plateau which evolutionists tell us was formed 140 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Of course, the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs would destroy evolutionary theory, so maybe the hammer was made by dinosaurs. Do you really think so?

And to debunk this entire notion, I'll direct you to THIS website.

The stone is real, and it looks impressive to someone unfamiliar with geological processes. How could a modern artifact be stuck in Ordovician rock? The answer is that the concretion itself is not Ordovician. Minerals in solution can harden around an intrusive object dropped in a crack or simply left on the ground if the source rock (in this case, reportedly Ordovician) is chemically soluble (Cole, 1985).

In order to claim the hammer as a reliable out-of-place artifact, one would need either

1. Convincing documentation that the hammer was once naturally embedded in an ancient rock formation, or

2. Independent scientific evidence indicating a problematic age for the hammer.

So far neither has been provided. The lack of evidence for the first condition has already been acknowledged in creationist accounts. Independent evidence for the hammer's age could be gleaned from a number of methods, including Carbon 14 dating on the wooden handle. If there was no appreciable amount of C14 in it (beyond expected residual contamination) it would imply the hammer was more than 50,000 years old, and if younger than that, C14 could help pinpoint its actual age.

However, for years Baugh refused to allow the hammer to be C14 dated. In an exchange of letters between creationist Walter Brown and Jim Lippard in Creation/Evolution, Brown (1989) suggested that the hammer handle has not been dated because Baugh had three "understandable" conditions for dating it: that it be done with mass spectrometry, that Baugh be present during the dating, and that someone else pay for it. However, Lippard countered that no one has objected to the first two conditions, and that Baugh had no right to expect the third, since he's the one making the claims, and thus the one obligated to back them up. Even so, even after others offered to pay for the dating, Baugh declined to have it done. As Day (1991) wrote in a follow up letter: "Far from being 'understandable,' Baugh's stipulations seem to be little short of evasive tactics...If four years have gone by and nothing has happened, I think it is safe to conclude that Baugh has no interest whatsoever in determining the truth about his marvelous hammer."

G'Day.

Also want to add one more comment..

GOOGLE is a wonderful start.

[edit on 10/14/2004 by QuietSoul]

In that pic there is still part of the wooden handle attached. Instead of focusing on the metal - maybe they could just carbon date the wood from the handle to get to a date?

The owner wouldn't allow it, so it is stated....

Oh my..... John Titor found his long lost hammer!!!!


Sorry I could not resist....

ok lets say the hammer si for real the wood would have been petrified by now, there is NO WAY wood can last 60 milions of years (in its original form) (well maybe in ice but I doubt it)

[edit on 14-10-2004 by kix]

ok lets say the hammer si for real the wood would have been petrified by now, there is NO WAY wood can last 60 milions of years (in its original form) (well maybe in ice but I doubt it)

Interesting point...can't believe I missed that, but then I haven't completely checked all of the links above....

Originally posted by radiant_obsidian
In June of 1934, members of the Hahn family discovered a rock, sitting loose on a
rock ledge[...]this weathered rock
had wood protruding from it, they cracked it open, exposing the hammer head.

This is not evidence of anything. Some family finds a hammer in a lump of mud and thinks its a rock? I recall that there was a spark plug found in a lump of mud that everyone who didn't know what they were talking about thought was an ancient rock, but, surprise surprise, wasn't.

The unusual metallurgy is 96% iron, 2.6% chlorine and 0.74% sulfur (no carbon).
Density tests indicate casting exceptional quality.

According to who?


How is it that a hammer, made from a metal purer than any metal smelting techniques used in modern industry could be found in a peice of cretaceous rock from 75-100million years old????
It hasn't, so the answer to the question is sort of meaningless.

My belief is that our race is much older than we know or can scientifically prove, this is not the first time that humans have dominated the planet.

If it can't be demonstrated because of lack of evidence, and there is a conspiracy covering it up, how did you come to this conclusion? How did the conspiracy fail to trick you? Without any evidence, you are just making things up, and accepting them as real.

Think about this, if man was around over 500,000 years ago, why wouldnt we know about it?

Half a million years is a long time for a cataclysm or great flood, or even meteor shower to happen. read the bible

There is no evidence for a world wide flood. There are deposits of localized floods from longer ago than you are saying, so the evidence certainly could survive. But there isn't evidence of a world-wide one. So why pretend that there is?Whats to say our history doesnt go back even further, its just we have yet to find evidence of this.

I personally think that evolution may play a key. we did not simply eveolve from monkeys and chimps to our current state overnight, what if there has been more than 1 species of humanoid homonid like us???
Uhmmmm, in case you hadn't bothered to look at the research on this topic, there were humanoid running around the planet besides us. www.talkorigins.org...

This is not only likely, but highly probable as nature would need species similar to humans, to be able to evolve into humans. And where have all these other species gone? What happened to all the other species whilst we evolved and took over the planet?
Perhaps you should try looking at the evidence, which obviously you haven't, before jumping, er, I mean making, conclusions. See, thats how it usually works. You look at stuff first, then you describe it.

The article link is below.

It didn't show up. Apparently that doesn't matter, because you aren't even saying its correct.

what makes u think our technology or advancements would be found by acrcheologists way off in the future?

Since there is evidence of technology (stone tools, settlements, burials, etc) from 'way off in the past', why think that they wouldn't find anything? Even if every city was 'nuked', there'd still be piles of weird radioactive metals and radio-isotopes that only result from nuke explosions all over the planet (and thats of course ignoring all the places that simply -wouldn't- get nuked)

Take a look at the amount of nukes we have around the world, easily enough to destroy the planet, or any evidence we were ever hear.

Absolutely not. Enough to complete wreak civilization probably, certainly the west anyway, but not to erase all evidence of civilization.

Whats to say some of our larger meteor strikes such as the chixiclub would not have this same effect in the past??

Well, since we have evidence from before the chixilhub, not to mention evidence of the impact and its affects itself....

Or the great flood as described in the bible and sumerian texts.

So there's no evidence of a great flood, therefore it had to have happened? Because of some story that doesn't make sense? There isn't even enough water to flood the planet in the first place.

how do you explain the Mayans who had a knowledge of our own solar system and astronomy beyond our own untill the turn of this century, they knew about planets we hadnt even found

No, they didn't.

yet they knew this without the aid of any real scientific instruments or telescopes?

One can see the stars and planets without instruments. 'Seven easier when there aren't any cities dumping light into the sky.

the egyptians, Messopotamians, Mayans, Incas, Aztecs and Native American Indian tribes had this same understanding of astrology and the planets

And we have evidence of their technologies and cultures. Buildings, papers, glyphs, temples, burials, settlements, farms, everything. You had said that the technology of this ancient civ was too old to remain, yet everything else does. You think that they had metal smelting factories, ore processors, industrial mines, labs, and universities to figure it all out, but these things are gone and some coloured mud on pressed reeds is still around?

Where did these ancient races come from or how did they derive their vast knowledge.

Well, I'd be willing to be that they didn't just make up stuff and uncritically accept things other people told them. But they weren't more advanced in terms of science and technology anyways, so where are you getting that from?

Also if the rocks appearance did differ from the surrounding rocks, then it would have been mentioned in the article.

Why would it say that? You know the journalistic standards of the author?

kix
Oh my John Titor found his long lost hammer

Nice. Apparently he needed technology more primitive than that old IBM. Maybe the people in the future had gotten frustrated with it and need the hammer to smash it.

Originally posted by Gazrok
The owner wouldn't allow it, so it is stated....

Oh, gee, I wonder why?

BTW, that is a nice picture of an old spike hammer. Too bad some one left it sitting in a bucket of grout.

There is NO wood from the time of the dinos that hasn't been fossilized. If the owner wouldn't allow testing of even a smidge of the item, he is a liar and perpetuating a fraud. Was this mentioned? Sorry if it was.

why fish next to a cliff?
It doesnt look like a good place to be fishing (i dont fish very often so it may be i do not know).
It doesnt sound convincing but it makes me wonder wether to believe or not.

Let me first state, I am not saying this story/hammer is legit.

For the sake of what if-what if there was a civilization as advanced or more about 100 million years ago.
Let�s say-for whatever reason it died out-totally. What does u think would survive 100 million years to be found now?
I don't know for sure, but I would think that most anything would decompose back to the earth from which it came from in that time period.

What does u think would survive 100 million years to be found now?

Already answered....

Good question. Stories high stone and metal structures, miles and miles of concrete roadways, plastics that will last millions of years in the same state, dams, bridges, the Panama Canal, etc. etc. (Need I go on?) Even in an all out nuclear war, evidence of all of these would be found thousands of years into the future, so no, there'd be no doubt as to our level of advancement. Hence the crux of my argument... If they were more advanced, this would be EASY to see, not difficult.

The hammer is real. Been there seen it. C14 dating is not reliable. Fact, testing in 1000 year old living pine in CA showed to be 25,000 years old. C14 dating does not account for variations in the surrounding environment. Fire, etc, etc. Mans current "tech" is not yet up to Pre-flood times. Also the atmosphere has changed since the flood. Castings made in an experiment at 2.5 current atmospheres and increased O2 levels produced similar "steel" composition.

Gazrok, I see that reply, I just don't agree with it.

Think about all the changes in the earth that would occur over 100 million years. Ours is a planet in constant change.

Mountains rise up. Mountains are worn down by wind and rain.

Seas are created inland and sea's dry up inland. Rivers rise and fall. Rivers change paths.

It is still my firm opinion that most if not all signs of life/civilization would be destroyed, worn back to the earth and or buried in earth, seas.

Let me site some examples.

The sphinx is between 3 and 15,000 years old-depending on who you ask. It has been covered and uncovered several times in our very short recorded history. It has also be repaired several times. What shape do you think it would be in now, if never repaired and or not uncovered?

They pyramids are said to be in the same age range. Look how badly decayed they are after only 3-15,000 years. What do u think they would look like after 100,000 years of no repair. What about a million. What about 10 million. What about 100 million...............

I think u can see my point.

Radiant Obsidian, I have some concerns with your story.

First off, if the rock were from a Cretaceous formation, it would be from between 144 and 65 mya, not 75 to 100 mya. This may sound kind of �nit-picking�, but how can you trust a geologist who des not even know when the Cretaceous era was to provide us with good information?

Second, the articles mentioned that the �unusual metallurgy is 96% iron, 2.6% chlorine and 0.74% sulfur� � that is unusual indeed, I do not see how (remember I�ve only had a couple of chemistry courses) you can alloy iron, chlorine, and sulfur. Although there are cast alloys with Sulfur, the percentage is almost never more that 0.11 percent, and that is only a small part of other elements, typically, Carbon (3.3%), Silicon (1/64%), Manganese (0.3%), Phosphorus (1.42%) and traces of Nickel, Magnesium, and Copper).

And as far as alloying a metal with a halogen, good luck; I would love to see the balanced equation with chlorine in it! As a matter of fact, the site where it is now (Genesis Park, see www.genesispark.org...) says: �Many scientists have expressed skepticism since the artifact was not found in situ by a professional, but the composition (chlorine fabricated with metallic iron) remains a puzzling enigma.�

That�s the understatement of the year!

Carl Baugh, by the way, the creationist who bought the hammer, has refused to allow anyone to attempt to carbon �14 date the hammer handle, which would settle the matter for once and all.

Here is more information about the hammer:

members.aol.com...

I�m afraid it�s just another hoax.

The sphinx is between 3 and 15,000 years old-depending on who you ask. It has been covered and uncovered several times in our very short recorded history. It has also be repaired several times. What shape do you think it would be in now, if never repaired and or not uncovered?

They pyramids are said to be in the same age range. Look how badly decayed they are after only 3-15,000 years. What do u think they would look like after 100,000 years of no repair. What about a million. What about 10 million. What about 100 million...............

Such monuments are not made of metal and glass, and plastic. Even if EVERYTHING were overgrown, etc. if they (later civilizations) had the same (not better, just same) tech as we do now, then they'll easily locate even buried skyscrapers, roads, etc. There are other ways in which we've naturally shaped the land too. Strip mining, mines in general, canals, etc. Plastic is another biggie... More dinos could actually come and go, and they'd still find a six pack holder! Trust me, it'd be very easy to tell we were here.....