Oldest Fossils Found In Cordillera 444 Million Year Old

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Oldest Fossils Found In Cordillera Betica Mountain Range, 444 Million Year Old Ordovician Conodonts


Spanish researchers have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 million years ago for the first time in the western Mediterranean. The discovery of these very primitive marine vertebrates has helped scientists to reconstruct the palaeogeography of the Cordillera Bética mountain range. Their study shows that the mountain system in the south of the Iberian Peninsula was located alongside the Alps at that time.


These are some of the oldest fossils found in Cordillera Bética mountain range.


Credit: Rodríguez-Cañero et al.

In 2006, a group of Andalusian geologists found the oldest fossils in the Cordillera Bética, dating from the late Ordovician period between 446 and 444 million years ago, in the Maláguide Complex in Ardales (Malaga). This was also the first solid evidence of Ordovician rocks in the Bética range.

"The importance of this finding stems not only from the age of the fossils and the fact they make it possible to date the age of the materials they contain, but also from the valuable information they provide to help us reconstruct the tectonic history, the palaeogeography, and the geological history of the Cordillera Bética", Rosario Rodríguez-Cañero, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the University of Granada, tells SINC.

The study, which has been published in the latest issue of the journal Terra Nova, says that the fossils of conodonts, which are very rare and difficult to find, are "an essential tool" for unravelling the geological history of the Bética mountains and learning about the features of the environment in which they developed and the thermal history of the rocks in which they are found.

The researchers analysed the characteristics of the conodont remains they found, the presence of certain species, and the absence of others, and compared these with others of a similar age found in the macizo ibérico (essentially the western half of the Iberian Peninsula) and other ranges in the area.

The results of the study show that, during the late Ordovician period, the Maláguide Complex was not to be found with the rest of the Iberian Peninsula along the edge of the palaeo-continent of Gondwana, "but was rather at a much lower latitude much closer to the Alps, with its Ordovician conodont fauna showing much closer similarities to the fauna of this area", says Rodríguez-Cañero.

Tiny and essential fossils

The conodonts were small, eel-shaped animals without any vertebral column, which measured a few tenths of a millimetre in length, and inhabited the seas during the Palaeozoic era and became extinct at the end of the Triassic (around 205 million years ago).

The fossilised remains usually found are not complete conodonts, but rather pieces of less than one millimetre in size, with a phosphate composition similar to that of vertebrate teeth. The conodonts had these in the cephalic region and used them to catch and grind up their food.

"These teeth were the only mineralised pieces of conodonts, meaning they are generally the only remains to have fossilised, although complete conodont fossils have been found in other parts of the world", the geologist explains.

The fossils found by the research team are not only the oldest in the Cordillera Bética, but are also the first remains of Ordovidician conodonts found in the entire western Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to the south of Italy.

SINC
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

References:Rodriguez-Canero, R.; Martín-Algarra, A.; Sarmiento, G.N.; Navas-Parejo, P. "First Late Ordovician conodont fauna in the Betic Cordillera (South Spain): a palaeobiogeographical contribution" Terra Nova 22(5): 330-340, octubre de 2010.


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DEVONIAN 363– 409 million years ago—

*Kindgoodie Quarry near Inchya, Scotland—1844—nail found encased in sandstone block—between 360 and 400 million years old
*Grampian Hills, Scotland—1861—crystallized iron artifacts embedded in Scottish Old Red Sandstone—375 million years old
*Gilboa, Catskills, New York—1870’s—earliest tree fossils having trunks with cut marks—385 million years old
*Adorf, Germany—2008—microscopic tubular filaments of an artificial nature—400 million years old
*North of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—1822—several rows of evenly spaced machine-precision perfect diamond shapes with raised bands across each center, impressed in sandstone—over 400 million years old

SILURIAN 409– 439 million years ago—

*Dry Branch, Missouri—1880—human skull, portions of ribs and vertebrae, two barbed flint arrowheads, and impressions of fiber matting encased in saccharoidal sandstone—425 million years old
*Northern Berks County, Pennsylvania—1966—tiny arrow or trident impressions in a straight row found in Silurian stratum—425 million years old
*Outside Amman, Jordan—1918—metallic geometrics unearthed from Jordanian Wadi Ram Formations— 440 million years old

ORDOVICIAN 439–510 million years ago—

*Near Lake Windemere, England—1948—shoe impress with tacking, linear and floral designs in the sole and heel—500 million years old
*Near Salt Lake City, Utah—1929—nickel-steel alloy artifacts surrounded in Whitelock-Champlainian Formation series—500 million years old
*Henerson Quarry near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—1829—block of Cambrio-Ordovician marble with two precision-cut letters, "I" and "U," engraved in it—between 500 and 600 million years old

CAMBRIAN 510–560 million years ago—

*Antelope Springs, Utah—1968—sandal print with crushed trilobites in the impression, encased in Cambrian Wheeler Formation—520 million years old
*Near Gothaab, Greenland—1896—cut and polished obsidian cones and cylinders encased in Sirius Passet Formation—520 million years old
*Above Victoria Falls near Loch Maree, Scotland—several machine-rolled and cut bands of iron embedded in Torridon Red Sandstone—550 million years old
*Salt mines in the Salt Range Mountains, Pakistan—1945—fossils of angiosperms, gymnosperms and other forms of advanced flowering plants, pieces of wood from trees, as well as insect remains, found in the Saline Series of the early Cambrian, suggesting that highly evolved flora and fauna have appeared more than once on this planet—550 million years old

PRECAMBRIAN 560–610 million years ago—

*Meeting House Hill, Dorchester, Massachusetts—1852—bell-shaped vessel made of zinc composite with intricate inlaid silver design work, blown out of Roxbury Conglomerate—at least 600 million years old

PROTEROZOIC 610 million–2.5 billion years ago—

*Sierra Anchor region near Phoenix, Arizona—1972—series of hollow petrified cylinders encased in Proterozoic sandstone—1.2 billion years old
*Hudson Bay, Canada—1872—corundum alloyed micro-sculptures embedded in the Belcher Group Formation—1.8 billion years old
*Near Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada—1982—human-like footprints with four toes and in double rows—2 billion years old
*Perth region, western Australia—1966—wire and sheet metal artifacts discovered by X-ray inside geodes among Bitter Springs Prokaryotes Fossil Beds—over 2 billion years old

ARCHEAN 2.5 - 3.8 billion years ago—

*Wonderstone Silver Mine near Ottasdal, Transvaal, South Africa—beginning in 1979—over 200 nickel-steel alloy spheroids some incised with three grooves, embedded in pyrophylite—between 2.8 and 3.2 billion years old
*Namibian Kalahari Craton, southwest Africa—1899—gold alloy branched tree-like artifacts, found in the African Bulawayar Formation—3.5 billion years old
*Near Pretoria, South Africa—1859—silicon-titanium posts in Onverwacht Group strata—3.5 billion years old
*West of Darwin, northern Australia—1908—artificially carved molybdenite crystals encased in Pilbara Supergroup layers—3.6 billion years old
*Southeast of Walvis Bay, Namibia—1898—unnatural cubic formations of an unidentified metal, dug out of Kalahari Craton strata—3.7 billion years old

HADEAN 3.8–4.5 billion years ago—

*Eastern Yukon Territory, Canada—1933—numerous non-crystal alloy octahedrons showing signs of machine-tooling, encased in Acasta Gneiss— 3.9 billion years old
*Twin Sisters Range, Washington—1961—a group of over 100 unspecified metal forms which make up a message composed of three-dimensional letters, embedded in olivine stone—4.1 billion years old

[SPECIAL NOTE—Be sure to see the Reports offered under the Deep Time Artifacts Series for more complete studies of the objects listed above] So far, a total of 220 well-documented cases of what are called out-of-place artifacts have been found scattered throughout the geologic record. Their inherent sophistication demonstrates the existence of intelligent culture-producing life on this planet stretching back to its very beginnings. In taking a closer look at these relics from the forgotten past, we find a number of consistent patterns.

First, the artifacts come from practically every corner of the globe. Wherever humankind has penetrated into the rocky layers of the planet—whether through water or petroleum drilling, ore mining, construction digging, agricultural tilling or scientific exploration—the relics crop up with much the same frequency as natural fossil remains. Sometimes it is the fossils themselves that are the anomalies, especially if they reveal the presence of modern-type human beings far down the strata long before they were supposed to have evolved. If there are regions which lack the presence of out-of-place artifacts, it is only because those areas remain relatively untouched by present-day investigation and excavation work. The artifacts’ distribution reveals that they are not by any means a spatially isolated occurrence, but are a pervasive phenomenon throughout the world.

Secondly, the artifacts appear to exist in every geologic age, all the way to the very beginnings of the Earth. It is true that some epochs are represented by a rich collection of relics, while others only have a scant few items encased in rock. But this is understandable, given the different types of preservation media in which the artifacts are found, and the various degrees of durability of the artifacts themselves over vast periods of time. Those geologic eras during which prehistoric plant matter slowly metamorphosed into coal appears to have been a far better preserving agent for many artifacts, as opposed to other periods predominated by either sedimentary deposits caused by turbulence or igneous rocks formed by volcanic eruptions that allowed for fewer relics to survive. Likewise, the presence of more delicate human skeletal remains and cultural items become increasingly rarer due to deterioration as time goes by, until the bottom-most layers only contain the most durable metallic objects.

The point to be made here is that all the signs of intelligent forms of life and their cultural and technological products are evenly spread throughout the geologic past. This goes to demonstrate that this planet has always been inhabited by higher sentient beings who once passed through great cycles of unknown civilizations that have risen and fallen myriads of times, leaving behind for us tantalizing clues concerning their forgotten existence.

What is also revealed by examining the full spectrum of out-of-place artifacts is that every level of cultural sophistication can be observed—from crude flint scrapers to wooden and metal tools and utensils, from stone and ceramic sculptures to machine-rolled coins and iron bars, from simple human artistic portraits to examples of sophisticated writing scripts, from petrified wooden boats and masonry walls to intricately carved and silver-inlaid objets d’art, and from metal-cast mechanical parts to highly advanced electronic components the purposes of which are beyond our present understanding.

Most importantly, we do not find these artifacts in any kind of discernable developmental order, slowly progressing from simple to complex. Instead, they show a continuous rising and falling, a repeating cycle of growth and regression, with numerous signs of cultural and technological achievements followed by evidence of loss over and over again.

Our primary question is, how can we explain the presence of these artifacts? By extension we can also ask, what paradigm of past events can we utilize that best allows us to comprehend all the many implications these artifacts suggest to us?

At the present time, there exist four major frameworks of interpretation. These are the Uniformitarian Evolutionary perspective, Bible-based Creationism, the Ancient Astronaut theory or Extraterrestrialism, and the Philosophical-Metaphysical-Occult-Esoteric viewpoint. Let us examine each one of these.

The most predominant belief structure today—considered to be the established or accepted theorem by the majority conservative historical community of scholars, writers, educators, academicians, geologists, geophysicists, paleo-botanists, paleontologists, anthropologists and archaeologists—comes under the general heading of Uniformitarian Evolution, or singular gradual evolution.

Its chief concept is that not only has all organic life on the planet undergone a slow yet steady evolutionary development from simple one-cell forms to today’s wide variety of complex plants and animals, but that the appearance of humankind, as well as his cognitive and cultural skills, have likewise passed through a series of gradual stages of growth and expansion in similar ways.

This concept is also known as linear progression. More specifically, as it is applied to human cultural development, the main idea is that humankind endured a lengthy period of time known as the Stone Age discovering fire and chipping flints, then attained the first rudiments of civilization only a few thousand years ago in Egypt, Sumer, India, China, Mexico and Peru, before finally experiencing the Renaissance, the Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution. Today, we supposedly stand at the pinnacle of a very long line of ascent from primitive beginnings to achieving our modern cultural and technological accomplishments.

The problem with this somewhat egocentric view of our history is that it does not allow for any deviations. It dictates that the farther back in time we go, the simpler and more archaic the artifacts left behind had to have been. All the products of early human manufacture are purposely and carefully classified to conform to this pattern of upward development. There cannot be any exceptions to this rule, because any evidence of complex or advanced knowledge suddenly appearing in the midst of ancient or prehistoric remains would totally contradict and discredit the fundamental idea of linear progression.

For this reason, the present-day conservative historical establishment has absolutely no room in their framework of the past for the existence of out-of-place artifacts, both in the archaeological and especially in the geological records. They steadfastly maintain that humankind’s rise to civilization happened just once, and only in the past few millennia. But the growing number of out-of-place artifacts that have been brought to light tell a radically different story. They testify instead to grand cycles of intelligent-produced cultures extending back millions of years.

The only way that intransigent scholars bound to their narrow linear progressive vision can come to terms with out-of-place artifacts is to take one of two positions. For those objects that appear within a known historical context, conservative experts try to explain them away as flukes of history, anachronisms, the product of a rare genius who invented something unique that was never repeated again until a later age. But for those items that are found in deep time, located in strata that are concurrent with the first appearances of humankind, even life itself, all that they can do is label these as hoaxes and frauds, even though in most cases the unearthing of such artifacts is well-documented.

The major problem is there are now an ever-increasing number of artifacts being uncovered and thoroughly investigated, that are too many to be denied any longer. Trying to sweep them under the proverbial rug is only making the rug too lumpy to be ignored.

In the final analysis, Uniformitarian Evolution, despite all its overwhelming support by conservative historians the world over, nonetheless can offer us very little if any answers to the questions we are seeking regarding the real story behind the presence of out-of-place artifacts.

Many of today’s modern fundamentalist Christian denominations are faithful supporters of Creationism, which can be said to hold positions the exact opposite to that of Uniformitarian Evolution. It completely disavows that the process of evolution has ever taken place, either among the flora and fauna of the world or in humankind’s origins. Instead, all life forms came into existence complete and unchanging at a specific moment in time by the intervention of the Divine Creator. What is more, Creationists do not believe in the extremely long periods usually attributed for geological and biological transformations, accepting instead a total age for the Earth of only six thousand years. This is formuated on a Bible chronology based on the patriarchal genealogies of the Book of Genesis chapters 5 and 11. All the geologic strata from Pleistocene to Proterozoic are further explained as being the result of a single world-wide catastrophic event, Noah’s Flood.

If all global rock layers were laid down all at once, then this can only mean that all the out-of-place artifacts found in the layers had to have been the product of a single pre-existing world. Bible scholars point to the description in the early chapters of Genesis about the immediate descendants of Adam and Eve forming what has been termed the Antediluvian civilization. As portrayed in these texts, several of the pre-Flood patriarchs were the inventors of fire, tool-making, agriculture, animal husbandry, architecture and city-building, social and religious organization, art, music, theater, metal-working and casting.

This knowledge Noah and his family supposedly carried with them through the Deluge cataclysm and was used to build all the various post-Flood civilizations that later emerged in the ancient Middle East and beyond. The more advanced technological elements that they also preserved became the out-of-place artifacts of the archaeological record, while the existence of those artifacts unearthed from the older geological layers Creationists regard as proof of the original pre-existing Antediluvian civilization.

While this scenario has some intriguing points to consider, the overall framework has two serious flaws. First, trying to construct a valid chronology based on Biblical genealogical texts does not work. A comparison of patriarchal lists given in both the Old and New Testaments reveals numerous discrepancies, where names are left out in certain places and extra names are added in others. As a geneaologist will tell you, when the chain of descent is broken or has holes in it, any attempt to create a reliable sequence for counting time periods is defeated.

Not only this, but when comparing the earliest manuscripts that the modern Bible originated from—the Messoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Septuagint—the number of years recorded are all different between when a Genesis patriarch was born and when he fathered his son who became the next generation in line. What has come down to us in the King James Version was a seventeenth century attempt to make an estimated compromise from all the various older manuscripts’ mismatched numbers. With there being no basis of certainty for any of the lengths of time given, trying to create a workable chronology back to the Creation of the world clearly falls far short of the mark.

The second failing point for Creationism is its somewhat simplistic interpretation of geologic history. If all the rocky layers of our planet were laid down in the single event of the Biblical Flood, then it also means that all the fossils contained in these layers represent every life form that was alive on the day the Deluge began and was subsequently buried by the cataclysm. The problem is, the total number of fossils that exist globally points to the presence of more flora and fauna than the entire Earth could possibly support by as much as 80 to 100 times. No matter how much you try to stretch out every conceivable model of an ideal pre-Flood ecological system, there simply would have been insufficient supportive environmental mechanisms, let alone enough terrestrial surface room, for such a massive quantity of life co-inhabiting the planet all at the same time.

By extension, this same critical argument also holds for out-of-place artifacts embedded in the geologic strata. If, as some Creationists argue, all the artifacts were the product of a single Antediluvian civilization, then we face a quandary of explaining why there would have been such a wide spectrum of different cultural elements existing concurrently. According to Biblical chronology, the descendants from Adam to Noah only had 1,656 years to have flourished before being destroyed. Even if we were to speculate that for some reason Antediluvian society developed along multiple lines of diversity from its very beginnings, its short existence could not possibly have produced so wide a variety of cultural forms and technologies exhibited by the sum total of artifacts.

Put another way, as rich and diverse as our own civilization is today, it would have paled into insignificance compared with the proposed single Antediluvian civilization if it had been composed of the wide spectrum of cultural elements represented. Just as our planet can hold only a certain limit of life numbers, so human civilization, constrained by similar limitations, can hold just so much diversity before it would fall apart. This becomes especially crucial when, as we noted already, there was only a millennium and a half for all this to have happened. This, coupled with the fact that the Genesis account records that humankind began with only two people and multiplied exponentially from there, the severe lack of both time and available manpower could not possibly have generated that much cultural and technological diversity.

In addition, we find no cultural correlations or developmental patterns among the artifacts themselves. Every portrayed artistic style is unrelated to one another, none of the samples of scripts match each other, and the various machine parts and electronic components are not part of a larger design correlation as one would expect in a singular technological culture. Rather, each artifact stands alone and is unique unto itself, and cannot be interpreted as being compatible in a greater unifying context.

There is also the problem of deposition and positioning. If the artifacts were the remnants of a civilization lost in the violent turbulence of the Deluge, why do we not discover more of a mixture of the debris? If we look at the results of destruction caused by modern-day flooding, we usually find in the wreckage bits and pieces representing all walks of life and cultural backgrounds jumbled together. In contrast, the positioning of the various out-of-place artifacts is more indicative of specific cultural levels of development being distinct from each other in the rock layers. This in no way suggests deposition occurring all at once, but instead separate burials under different conditions and at very different times.

Based on this evidence, what we can say for sure is that in reality there have been not one but a number of planetary cataclysms in the past that wiped out a myriad of forgotten civilizations. The Biblical account of Noah’s Flood was the memory of only one of these, very likely the last such major world-wide upheaval event which coincided with the ending the the last Ice Age and the accompanying sudden rise of ocean levels circa twelve thousand years ago.

Noteworthy is the fact that this was also the very same time frame Plato recorded in his writings that the land of Atlantis sank amid mighty convulsions. If one compares Plato’s narratives to the Genesis story regarding the Antediluvians, one finds there are many striking correlations between the two. Are both these in fact memories of the same pre-cataclysmic civilization?

Creationists are right when they say that those out-of-place artifacts found in the more recent archaeological record were indeed remnants which came through with the survivors from a destroyed former world. Where they are wrong, however, is in trying to lump together all the artifacts found in the geological record into a single prehistoric precedent. In truth, they belonged to not one pre-Flood world, but to a great multitude of lost worlds reaching far back into time.

A third possible paradigm for interpreting the remains of the past is Extraterrestrialism, or what has been popularly called the Ancient Astronaut theory. In their many published books on the subject, proponents postulate the repeated arrival of alien beings from other planets to our world, who then were responsible for heavily influencing the development of human civilization. The presences of out-of-place artifacts, advocates argue, were merely the result of extraterrestrial visitations and close encounters with our earliest ancestors.

The major assumption these researchers and authors usually make, however, is that humankind was not intelligent enough to develop the sophistication found in most artifacts, and that therefore it had to have been introduced from somewhere else, namely from outer space. What is behind this view is the unspoken endorsement of the concept of linear progressive history, that we have been continually developing upward in culture and technology over a long period of time. Conversely, the farther back we look the more primitive humankind had to have been. On this basis, the Ancient Astronaut theorists try to surmise that anything that is out-of-place from the linear framework must therefore have come from an extraterrestrial source.

There is an old rule of thumb called Occam’s Razor which states that, when faced with more than one possible answer to a mystery, go with the simplest and most direct, because chances are that is the most correct. In this case, rather than invoking alien astronauts to explain these items, a simpler and literally more down-to-Earth explanation would be that we ourselves are the creators of our own past accomplishments, the result of many cycles of lost civilizations forgotten to us today. If the linear model of history is false to begin with, then the whole basis of the Ancient Astronauts theory disappears, leaving it with no foundation whatsoever.

This is especially true when it comes to interpretations of mythic gods coming out of heaven in flying craft and bringing with them the elements of advanced culture. Here again there is a far better and more practical answer than identifying these beings as aliens in spaceships traveling from some other world.

As many ancient and classical writers chronicled in their histories, there were times in the distant past when technological civilizations existed side by side with primitive cultures, just as they do in our age, and the former greatly impacted itself on the latter. The initial reaction of a primitive culture on first contact with the members of an advanced civilization was to regard them as gods, the bearers of wondrous and magical gifts of their advanced wisdom.

In our recorded history, we remember how the Aztecs responded to Cortez, the Incas to Pizzaro, and the Hawaiians to Cook. In more distant past cycles, we know from legends and stories that certain lost civilizations had flying craft with which they traveled the globe, and they did indeed appear as deities coming out of the skies. However, they were not from outer space, but rather originated from somewhere else on the same planet, Earth.

As a good modern example of what can happen, during World War II when the Allies landed in New Guinea, the indigenous peoples were awestruck by the sudden appearance of airstrips built to bring aircraft loaded with food and clothing, which the soldiers shared with them. But when the War ended and the armies and planes left, the native New Guineans found themselves cut off from any further supplies.

What developed next has since been called the Cargo Cult phenomenon, whereby the New Guineans built their own runways dedicated to the gods, complete with full-sized bamboo airplane decoys, in the hopes of attracting other aircraft back to their supposed nesting grounds.

What is true for our age may have also been true in the past. Numerous ancient myths and texts preserved around the world tell of gods arriving and bringing elements of an advanced culture, then suddenly departing and leaving only the memory of their visitation behind. Subsequently, the various ancient recipients honored their mysterious guests by building temples and prophesying their return. Were such incidents the ancient version of the Cargo Cult experience, that involved contact from a forgotten advanced Earth-based civilization rather than from extraterrestrial intelligences?

When we look more closely at the wide array of out-of-place artifacts found in both the archaeological and geologic records, nowhere are we confronted with anything that is truly alien in its composition or form. There is nothing among any of them that was made except with purely terrestrial materials, or which did not serve a purely terrestrially-bound cultural purpose. We have discovered no exotic metals, no off-world technologies, nothing with a distinctive molecular signature other than what exists in our own world. If communications had been opened in the past with space-faring aliens, we would expect to have found at least some physical evidence pointing to artifacts being from exclusively extraterrestrial sources. Admittedly, a number of the out-of-place items are very high tech and even have a bizarre and unexplainable appearance. But they are not beyond the scope of what intelligent beings right here on our own planet would have been capable of producing.

As an important corroboration, where we have discovered the presence of deep time artifacts embedded in the rocks, we have also found clear evidence of the presence of some form of human beings. Noteworthy is the fact that along with the objects of worked stone and metals there likewise have been discovered human skulls, bones and footprints. This means that human forms much like us existed contemporary with the artifacts. Therefore, logically the artifacts were of their making. There is no need to invoke spacemen, or look to the stars, for our best answer of who created the out-of-place artifacts from the distant past.

The bottom line is that we, and those who came before us, should not be sold short. Our inheritence from the forgotten past is far older, deeper and richer than we can ever imagine. It is time to better appreciate what the ancient and prehistoric inhabitants of our own world once accomplished, and from which we have much to learn yet again.

The last major framework we will examine is called, for want of a better term, the Philosophical-Metaphysical-Occult-Esoteric perspective. The reason for it being identified with so many names is because it is a concept coalesced from among a wide variety of backgrounds and belief structures.

The main central theme of this paradigm is that history has always bee cyclic in nature. Such a viewpoint was shared in common among all classical and ancient philosophers and historians. Most major cultures and religions of the world, past and present, preserve mythologies or sacred texts which depict in great detail humankind’s passage through several world ages or repeating series of creations and destructions that were recorded to have been hundreds of thousands if not millions of years old. These ancient insights in turn are being corroborated by more modern occult and esoteric writers who have received intuitive, psychic, visionary and channeled information from spiritual sources of a highly accurate quality. They have received volumes of messages on the lost histories and advanced achievements of such forgotten cycles of civilization known as Atlantis, Lemuria, Mw, Hyperborea and Polaria.

Ancient philosophers, metaphysicians and mystics alike generally accept the basic tenets of evolution, but with important differences. Uniformitarian Evolution teaches that when the Earth first formed 4.5 billion years ago, it went through a long period of being in a hot liquid state before eventually cooling. Cyclic history advocates on the other hand believe that the duration of our planet has been much longer, being of the same age as the rest of the universe or 15 to 20 billion years old. If this is the case, then the Earth would have had time to experience a series of meltings and coolings. Each time the planetary surface solidified, it supported its own unique array of evolving plant and animal life, as well as its own intelligent life forms who developed a multitude of unimaginable civilizations.

Eventually, every time the surface returned to a molten state due to periodic meteoric bombardments or massive world-wide eruptions triggered by cosmic cataclysms, the fossil and artifact records were wiped clean. The significant exceptions may be the existence of incredibly old time-capsules deliberately left behind that were buried much farther down in the early Earth’s more stable mantle, or were placed on other planets for us to find one day.

In more recent geologic history, Uniformitarian Evolution insists there has been only one line of evolutionary development from simple to complex life forms, represented in the fossil record. But cyclic historical supporters point to the existence of numerous fossil anomalies among the planetary strata which suggest that in truth complex creatures have emerged more than once, leading to intelligent life. And it has been these beings who in the distant past evolved further to develop a multitude of their own cultures and technologies. Here, metaphysicians and mystics claim, is the real source for the presence of out-of-place artifacts embedded throughout the geologic record.

If we take our own physical evolution over the past 18 million years as one average, and our present cultural blossoming in the last 10,000 years as another average, then we are looking at the possibility of 250 previous evolutions of intelligent beings producing 450,000 cycles of pre-existing civilizations extending all the way down to the bottom layer of the present geological strata.

[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]

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Great article and welcome! A really thought-provoking and rational-minded theory.

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Please read this thread and take a look at this website http://www.forgottenageresearch.com , it's time for the true origin of man to discover. We have been fooled long enough by the ruling elite!!!

DEVONIAN 363– 409 million years ago—

*Kindgoodie Quarry near Inchya, Scotland—1844—nail found encased in sandstone block—between 360 and 400 million years old
*Grampian Hills, Scotland—1861—crystallized iron artifacts embedded in Scottish Old Red Sandstone—375 million years old
*Gilboa, Catskills, New York—1870’s—earliest tree fossils having trunks with cut marks—385 million years old
*Adorf, Germany—2008—microscopic tubular filaments of an artificial nature—400 million years old
*North of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—1822—several rows of evenly spaced machine-precision perfect diamond shapes with raised bands across each center, impressed in sandstone—over 400 million years old

SILURIAN 409– 439 million years ago—

*Dry Branch, Missouri—1880—human skull, portions of ribs and vertebrae, two barbed flint arrowheads, and impressions of fiber matting encased in saccharoidal sandstone—425 million years old
*Northern Berks County, Pennsylvania—1966—tiny arrow or trident impressions in a straight row found in Silurian stratum—425 million years old
*Outside Amman, Jordan—1918—metallic geometrics unearthed from Jordanian Wadi Ram Formations— 440 million years old

ORDOVICIAN 439–510 million years ago—

*Near Lake Windemere, England—1948—shoe impress with tacking, linear and floral designs in the sole and heel—500 million years old
*Near Salt Lake City, Utah—1929—nickel-steel alloy artifacts surrounded in Whitelock-Champlainian Formation series—500 million years old
*Henerson Quarry near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—1829—block of Cambrio-Ordovician marble with two precision-cut letters, "I" and "U," engraved in it—between 500 and 600 million years old

CAMBRIAN 510–560 million years ago—

*Antelope Springs, Utah—1968—sandal print with crushed trilobites in the impression, encased in Cambrian Wheeler Formation—520 million years old
*Near Gothaab, Greenland—1896—cut and polished obsidian cones and cylinders encased in Sirius Passet Formation—520 million years old
*Above Victoria Falls near Loch Maree, Scotland—several machine-rolled and cut bands of iron embedded in Torridon Red Sandstone—550 million years old
*Salt mines in the Salt Range Mountains, Pakistan—1945—fossils of angiosperms, gymnosperms and other forms of advanced flowering plants, pieces of wood from trees, as well as insect remains, found in the Saline Series of the early Cambrian, suggesting that highly evolved flora and fauna have appeared more than once on this planet—550 million years old

PRECAMBRIAN 560–610 million years ago—

*Meeting House Hill, Dorchester, Massachusetts—1852—bell-shaped vessel made of zinc composite with intricate inlaid silver design work, blown out of Roxbury Conglomerate—at least 600 million years old

PROTEROZOIC 610 million–2.5 billion years ago—

*Sierra Anchor region near Phoenix, Arizona—1972—series of hollow petrified cylinders encased in Proterozoic sandstone—1.2 billion years old
*Hudson Bay, Canada—1872—corundum alloyed micro-sculptures embedded in the Belcher Group Formation—1.8 billion years old
*Near Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada—1982—human-like footprints with four toes and in double rows—2 billion years old
*Perth region, western Australia—1966—wire and sheet metal artifacts discovered by X-ray inside geodes among Bitter Springs Prokaryotes Fossil Beds—over 2 billion years old

ARCHEAN 2.5 - 3.8 billion years ago—

*Wonderstone Silver Mine near Ottasdal, Transvaal, South Africa—beginning in 1979—over 200 nickel-steel alloy spheroids some incised with three grooves, embedded in pyrophylite—between 2.8 and 3.2 billion years old
*Namibian Kalahari Craton, southwest Africa—1899—gold alloy branched tree-like artifacts, found in the African Bulawayar Formation—3.5 billion years old
*Near Pretoria, South Africa—1859—silicon-titanium posts in Onverwacht Group strata—3.5 billion years old
*West of Darwin, northern Australia—1908—artificially carved molybdenite crystals encased in Pilbara Supergroup layers—3.6 billion years old
*Southeast of Walvis Bay, Namibia—1898—unnatural cubic formations of an unidentified metal, dug out of Kalahari Craton strata—3.7 billion years old

HADEAN 3.8–4.5 billion years ago—

*Eastern Yukon Territory, Canada—1933—numerous non-crystal alloy octahedrons showing signs of machine-tooling, encased in Acasta Gneiss— 3.9 billion years old
*Twin Sisters Range, Washington—1961—a group of over 100 unspecified metal forms which make up a message composed of three-dimensional letters, embedded in olivine stone—4.1 billion years old

[SPECIAL NOTE—Be sure to see the Reports offered under the Deep Time Artifacts Series for more complete studies of the objects listed above] So far, a total of 220 well-documented cases of what are called out-of-place artifacts have been found scattered throughout the geologic record. Their inherent sophistication demonstrates the existence of intelligent culture-producing life on this planet stretching back to its very beginnings. In taking a closer look at these relics from the forgotten past, we find a number of consistent patterns.

First, the artifacts come from practically every corner of the globe. Wherever humankind has penetrated into the rocky layers of the planet—whether through water or petroleum drilling, ore mining, construction digging, agricultural tilling or scientific exploration—the relics crop up with much the same frequency as natural fossil remains. Sometimes it is the fossils themselves that are the anomalies, especially if they reveal the presence of modern-type human beings far down the strata long before they were supposed to have evolved. If there are regions which lack the presence of out-of-place artifacts, it is only because those areas remain relatively untouched by present-day investigation and excavation work. The artifacts’ distribution reveals that they are not by any means a spatially isolated occurrence, but are a pervasive phenomenon throughout the world.

Secondly, the artifacts appear to exist in every geologic age, all the way to the very beginnings of the Earth. It is true that some epochs are represented by a rich collection of relics, while others only have a scant few items encased in rock. But this is understandable, given the different types of preservation media in which the artifacts are found, and the various degrees of durability of the artifacts themselves over vast periods of time. Those geologic eras during which prehistoric plant matter slowly metamorphosed into coal appears to have been a far better preserving agent for many artifacts, as opposed to other periods predominated by either sedimentary deposits caused by turbulence or igneous rocks formed by volcanic eruptions that allowed for fewer relics to survive. Likewise, the presence of more delicate human skeletal remains and cultural items become increasingly rarer due to deterioration as time goes by, until the bottom-most layers only contain the most durable metallic objects.

The point to be made here is that all the signs of intelligent forms of life and their cultural and technological products are evenly spread throughout the geologic past. This goes to demonstrate that this planet has always been inhabited by higher sentient beings who once passed through great cycles of unknown civilizations that have risen and fallen myriads of times, leaving behind for us tantalizing clues concerning their forgotten existence.

What is also revealed by examining the full spectrum of out-of-place artifacts is that every level of cultural sophistication can be observed—from crude flint scrapers to wooden and metal tools and utensils, from stone and ceramic sculptures to machine-rolled coins and iron bars, from simple human artistic portraits to examples of sophisticated writing scripts, from petrified wooden boats and masonry walls to intricately carved and silver-inlaid objets d’art, and from metal-cast mechanical parts to highly advanced electronic components the purposes of which are beyond our present understanding.

Most importantly, we do not find these artifacts in any kind of discernable developmental order, slowly progressing from simple to complex. Instead, they show a continuous rising and falling, a repeating cycle of growth and regression, with numerous signs of cultural and technological achievements followed by evidence of loss over and over again.

Our primary question is, how can we explain the presence of these artifacts? By extension we can also ask, what paradigm of past events can we utilize that best allows us to comprehend all the many implications these artifacts suggest to us?

At the present time, there exist four major frameworks of interpretation. These are the Uniformitarian Evolutionary perspective, Bible-based Creationism, the Ancient Astronaut theory or Extraterrestrialism, and the Philosophical-Metaphysical-Occult-Esoteric viewpoint. Let us examine each one of these.

The most predominant belief structure today—considered to be the established or accepted theorem by the majority conservative historical community of scholars, writers, educators, academicians, geologists, geophysicists, paleo-botanists, paleontologists, anthropologists and archaeologists—comes under the general heading of Uniformitarian Evolution, or singular gradual evolution.

Its chief concept is that not only has all organic life on the planet undergone a slow yet steady evolutionary development from simple one-cell forms to today’s wide variety of complex plants and animals, but that the appearance of humankind, as well as his cognitive and cultural skills, have likewise passed through a series of gradual stages of growth and expansion in similar ways.

This concept is also known as linear progression. More specifically, as it is applied to human cultural development, the main idea is that humankind endured a lengthy period of time known as the Stone Age discovering fire and chipping flints, then attained the first rudiments of civilization only a few thousand years ago in Egypt, Sumer, India, China, Mexico and Peru, before finally experiencing the Renaissance, the Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution. Today, we supposedly stand at the pinnacle of a very long line of ascent from primitive beginnings to achieving our modern cultural and technological accomplishments.

The problem with this somewhat egocentric view of our history is that it does not allow for any deviations. It dictates that the farther back in time we go, the simpler and more archaic the artifacts left behind had to have been. All the products of early human manufacture are purposely and carefully classified to conform to this pattern of upward development. There cannot be any exceptions to this rule, because any evidence of complex or advanced knowledge suddenly appearing in the midst of ancient or prehistoric remains would totally contradict and discredit the fundamental idea of linear progression.

For this reason, the present-day conservative historical establishment has absolutely no room in their framework of the past for the existence of out-of-place artifacts, both in the archaeological and especially in the geological records. They steadfastly maintain that humankind’s rise to civilization happened just once, and only in the past few millennia. But the growing number of out-of-place artifacts that have been brought to light tell a radically different story. They testify instead to grand cycles of intelligent-produced cultures extending back millions of years.

The only way that intransigent scholars bound to their narrow linear progressive vision can come to terms with out-of-place artifacts is to take one of two positions. For those objects that appear within a known historical context, conservative experts try to explain them away as flukes of history, anachronisms, the product of a rare genius who invented something unique that was never repeated again until a later age. But for those items that are found in deep time, located in strata that are concurrent with the first appearances of humankind, even life itself, all that they can do is label these as hoaxes and frauds, even though in most cases the unearthing of such artifacts is well-documented.

The major problem is there are now an ever-increasing number of artifacts being uncovered and thoroughly investigated, that are too many to be denied any longer. Trying to sweep them under the proverbial rug is only making the rug too lumpy to be ignored.

In the final analysis, Uniformitarian Evolution, despite all its overwhelming support by conservative historians the world over, nonetheless can offer us very little if any answers to the questions we are seeking regarding the real story behind the presence of out-of-place artifacts.

Many of today’s modern fundamentalist Christian denominations are faithful supporters of Creationism, which can be said to hold positions the exact opposite to that of Uniformitarian Evolution. It completely disavows that the process of evolution has ever taken place, either among the flora and fauna of the world or in humankind’s origins. Instead, all life forms came into existence complete and unchanging at a specific moment in time by the intervention of the Divine Creator. What is more, Creationists do not believe in the extremely long periods usually attributed for geological and biological transformations, accepting instead a total age for the Earth of only six thousand years. This is formuated on a Bible chronology based on the patriarchal genealogies of the Book of Genesis chapters 5 and 11. All the geologic strata from Pleistocene to Proterozoic are further explained as being the result of a single world-wide catastrophic event, Noah’s Flood.

If all global rock layers were laid down all at once, then this can only mean that all the out-of-place artifacts found in the layers had to have been the product of a single pre-existing world. Bible scholars point to the description in the early chapters of Genesis about the immediate descendants of Adam and Eve forming what has been termed the Antediluvian civilization. As portrayed in these texts, several of the pre-Flood patriarchs were the inventors of fire, tool-making, agriculture, animal husbandry, architecture and city-building, social and religious organization, art, music, theater, metal-working and casting.

This knowledge Noah and his family supposedly carried with them through the Deluge cataclysm and was used to build all the various post-Flood civilizations that later emerged in the ancient Middle East and beyond. The more advanced technological elements that they also preserved became the out-of-place artifacts of the archaeological record, while the existence of those artifacts unearthed from the older geological layers Creationists regard as proof of the original pre-existing Antediluvian civilization.

While this scenario has some intriguing points to consider, the overall framework has two serious flaws. First, trying to construct a valid chronology based on Biblical genealogical texts does not work. A comparison of patriarchal lists given in both the Old and New Testaments reveals numerous discrepancies, where names are left out in certain places and extra names are added in others. As a geneaologist will tell you, when the chain of descent is broken or has holes in it, any attempt to create a reliable sequence for counting time periods is defeated.

Not only this, but when comparing the earliest manuscripts that the modern Bible originated from—the Messoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Septuagint—the number of years recorded are all different between when a Genesis patriarch was born and when he fathered his son who became the next generation in line. What has come down to us in the King James Version was a seventeenth century attempt to make an estimated compromise from all the various older manuscripts’ mismatched numbers. With there being no basis of certainty for any of the lengths of time given, trying to create a workable chronology back to the Creation of the world clearly falls far short of the mark.

The second failing point for Creationism is its somewhat simplistic interpretation of geologic history. If all the rocky layers of our planet were laid down in the single event of the Biblical Flood, then it also means that all the fossils contained in these layers represent every life form that was alive on the day the Deluge began and was subsequently buried by the cataclysm. The problem is, the total number of fossils that exist globally points to the presence of more flora and fauna than the entire Earth could possibly support by as much as 80 to 100 times. No matter how much you try to stretch out every conceivable model of an ideal pre-Flood ecological system, there simply would have been insufficient supportive environmental mechanisms, let alone enough terrestrial surface room, for such a massive quantity of life co-inhabiting the planet all at the same time.

By extension, this same critical argument also holds for out-of-place artifacts embedded in the geologic strata. If, as some Creationists argue, all the artifacts were the product of a single Antediluvian civilization, then we face a quandary of explaining why there would have been such a wide spectrum of different cultural elements existing concurrently. According to Biblical chronology, the descendants from Adam to Noah only had 1,656 years to have flourished before being destroyed. Even if we were to speculate that for some reason Antediluvian society developed along multiple lines of diversity from its very beginnings, its short existence could not possibly have produced so wide a variety of cultural forms and technologies exhibited by the sum total of artifacts.

Put another way, as rich and diverse as our own civilization is today, it would have paled into insignificance compared with the proposed single Antediluvian civilization if it had been composed of the wide spectrum of cultural elements represented. Just as our planet can hold only a certain limit of life numbers, so human civilization, constrained by similar limitations, can hold just so much diversity before it would fall apart. This becomes especially crucial when, as we noted already, there was only a millennium and a half for all this to have happened. This, coupled with the fact that the Genesis account records that humankind began with only two people and multiplied exponentially from there, the severe lack of both time and available manpower could not possibly have generated that much cultural and technological diversity.

In addition, we find no cultural correlations or developmental patterns among the artifacts themselves. Every portrayed artistic style is unrelated to one another, none of the samples of scripts match each other, and the various machine parts and electronic components are not part of a larger design correlation as one would expect in a singular technological culture. Rather, each artifact stands alone and is unique unto itself, and cannot be interpreted as being compatible in a greater unifying context.

There is also the problem of deposition and positioning. If the artifacts were the remnants of a civilization lost in the violent turbulence of the Deluge, why do we not discover more of a mixture of the debris? If we look at the results of destruction caused by modern-day flooding, we usually find in the wreckage bits and pieces representing all walks of life and cultural backgrounds jumbled together. In contrast, the positioning of the various out-of-place artifacts is more indicative of specific cultural levels of development being distinct from each other in the rock layers. This in no way suggests deposition occurring all at once, but instead separate burials under different conditions and at very different times.

Based on this evidence, what we can say for sure is that in reality there have been not one but a number of planetary cataclysms in the past that wiped out a myriad of forgotten civilizations. The Biblical account of Noah’s Flood was the memory of only one of these, very likely the last such major world-wide upheaval event which coincided with the ending the the last Ice Age and the accompanying sudden rise of ocean levels circa twelve thousand years ago.

Noteworthy is the fact that this was also the very same time frame Plato recorded in his writings that the land of Atlantis sank amid mighty convulsions. If one compares Plato’s narratives to the Genesis story regarding the Antediluvians, one finds there are many striking correlations between the two. Are both these in fact memories of the same pre-cataclysmic civilization?

Creationists are right when they say that those out-of-place artifacts found in the more recent archaeological record were indeed remnants which came through with the survivors from a destroyed former world. Where they are wrong, however, is in trying to lump together all the artifacts found in the geological record into a single prehistoric precedent. In truth, they belonged to not one pre-Flood world, but to a great multitude of lost worlds reaching far back into time.

A third possible paradigm for interpreting the remains of the past is Extraterrestrialism, or what has been popularly called the Ancient Astronaut theory. In their many published books on the subject, proponents postulate the repeated arrival of alien beings from other planets to our world, who then were responsible for heavily influencing the development of human civilization. The presences of out-of-place artifacts, advocates argue, were merely the result of extraterrestrial visitations and close encounters with our earliest ancestors.

The major assumption these researchers and authors usually make, however, is that humankind was not intelligent enough to develop the sophistication found in most artifacts, and that therefore it had to have been introduced from somewhere else, namely from outer space. What is behind this view is the unspoken endorsement of the concept of linear progressive history, that we have been continually developing upward in culture and technology over a long period of time. Conversely, the farther back we look the more primitive humankind had to have been. On this basis, the Ancient Astronaut theorists try to surmise that anything that is out-of-place from the linear framework must therefore have come from an extraterrestrial source.

There is an old rule of thumb called Occam’s Razor which states that, when faced with more than one possible answer to a mystery, go with the simplest and most direct, because chances are that is the most correct. In this case, rather than invoking alien astronauts to explain these items, a simpler and literally more down-to-Earth explanation would be that we ourselves are the creators of our own past accomplishments, the result of many cycles of lost civilizations forgotten to us today. If the linear model of history is false to begin with, then the whole basis of the Ancient Astronauts theory disappears, leaving it with no foundation whatsoever.

This is especially true when it comes to interpretations of mythic gods coming out of heaven in flying craft and bringing with them the elements of advanced culture. Here again there is a far better and more practical answer than identifying these beings as aliens in spaceships traveling from some other world.

As many ancient and classical writers chronicled in their histories, there were times in the distant past when technological civilizations existed side by side with primitive cultures, just as they do in our age, and the former greatly impacted itself on the latter. The initial reaction of a primitive culture on first contact with the members of an advanced civilization was to regard them as gods, the bearers of wondrous and magical gifts of their advanced wisdom.

In our recorded history, we remember how the Aztecs responded to Cortez, the Incas to Pizzaro, and the Hawaiians to Cook. In more distant past cycles, we know from legends and stories that certain lost civilizations had flying craft with which they traveled the globe, and they did indeed appear as deities coming out of the skies. However, they were not from outer space, but rather originated from somewhere else on the same planet, Earth.

As a good modern example of what can happen, during World War II when the Allies landed in New Guinea, the indigenous peoples were awestruck by the sudden appearance of airstrips built to bring aircraft loaded with food and clothing, which the soldiers shared with them. But when the War ended and the armies and planes left, the native New Guineans found themselves cut off from any further supplies.

What developed next has since been called the Cargo Cult phenomenon, whereby the New Guineans built their own runways dedicated to the gods, complete with full-sized bamboo airplane decoys, in the hopes of attracting other aircraft back to their supposed nesting grounds.

What is true for our age may have also been true in the past. Numerous ancient myths and texts preserved around the world tell of gods arriving and bringing elements of an advanced culture, then suddenly departing and leaving only the memory of their visitation behind. Subsequently, the various ancient recipients honored their mysterious guests by building temples and prophesying their return. Were such incidents the ancient version of the Cargo Cult experience, that involved contact from a forgotten advanced Earth-based civilization rather than from extraterrestrial intelligences?

When we look more closely at the wide array of out-of-place artifacts found in both the archaeological and geologic records, nowhere are we confronted with anything that is truly alien in its composition or form. There is nothing among any of them that was made except with purely terrestrial materials, or which did not serve a purely terrestrially-bound cultural purpose. We have discovered no exotic metals, no off-world technologies, nothing with a distinctive molecular signature other than what exists in our own world. If communications had been opened in the past with space-faring aliens, we would expect to have found at least some physical evidence pointing to artifacts being from exclusively extraterrestrial sources. Admittedly, a number of the out-of-place items are very high tech and even have a bizarre and unexplainable appearance. But they are not beyond the scope of what intelligent beings right here on our own planet would have been capable of producing.

As an important corroboration, where we have discovered the presence of deep time artifacts embedded in the rocks, we have also found clear evidence of the presence of some form of human beings. Noteworthy is the fact that along with the objects of worked stone and metals there likewise have been discovered human skulls, bones and footprints. This means that human forms much like us existed contemporary with the artifacts. Therefore, logically the artifacts were of their making. There is no need to invoke spacemen, or look to the stars, for our best answer of who created the out-of-place artifacts from the distant past.

The bottom line is that we, and those who came before us, should not be sold short. Our inheritence from the forgotten past is far older, deeper and richer than we can ever imagine. It is time to better appreciate what the ancient and prehistoric inhabitants of our own world once accomplished, and from which we have much to learn yet again.

The last major framework we will examine is called, for want of a better term, the Philosophical-Metaphysical-Occult-Esoteric perspective. The reason for it being identified with so many names is because it is a concept coalesced from among a wide variety of backgrounds and belief structures.

The main central theme of this paradigm is that history has always bee cyclic in nature. Such a viewpoint was shared in common among all classical and ancient philosophers and historians. Most major cultures and religions of the world, past and present, preserve mythologies or sacred texts which depict in great detail humankind’s passage through several world ages or repeating series of creations and destructions that were recorded to have been hundreds of thousands if not millions of years old. These ancient insights in turn are being corroborated by more modern occult and esoteric writers who have received intuitive, psychic, visionary and channeled information from spiritual sources of a highly accurate quality. They have received volumes of messages on the lost histories and advanced achievements of such forgotten cycles of civilization known as Atlantis, Lemuria, Mw, Hyperborea and Polaria.

Ancient philosophers, metaphysicians and mystics alike generally accept the basic tenets of evolution, but with important differences. Uniformitarian Evolution teaches that when the Earth first formed 4.5 billion years ago, it went through a long period of being in a hot liquid state before eventually cooling. Cyclic history advocates on the other hand believe that the duration of our planet has been much longer, being of the same age as the rest of the universe or 15 to 20 billion years old. If this is the case, then the Earth would have had time to experience a series of meltings and coolings. Each time the planetary surface solidified, it supported its own unique array of evolving plant and animal life, as well as its own intelligent life forms who developed a multitude of unimaginable civilizations.

Eventually, every time the surface returned to a molten state due to periodic meteoric bombardments or massive world-wide eruptions triggered by cosmic cataclysms, the fossil and artifact records were wiped clean. The significant exceptions may be the existence of incredibly old time-capsules deliberately left behind that were buried much farther down in the early Earth’s more stable mantle, or were placed on other planets for us to find one day.

In more recent geologic history, Uniformitarian Evolution insists there has been only one line of evolutionary development from simple to complex life forms, represented in the fossil record. But cyclic historical supporters point to the existence of numerous fossil anomalies among the planetary strata which suggest that in truth complex creatures have emerged more than once, leading to intelligent life. And it has been these beings who in the distant past evolved further to develop a multitude of their own cultures and technologies. Here, metaphysicians and mystics claim, is the real source for the presence of out-of-place artifacts embedded throughout the geologic record.

If we take our own physical evolution over the past 18 million years as one average, and our present cultural blossoming in the last 10,000 years as another average, then we are looking at the possibility of 250 previous evolutions of intelligent beings producing 450,000 cycles of pre-existing civilizations extending all the way down to the bottom layer of the present geological strata.

[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]

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