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人類化石哪裡去了呢?

那些沒有進入諾亞方舟的人會出什麼事呢﹖如果發生洪水時地上有數百萬人聚居,如創造論者所說的,不是會有很多人被埋在洪水沉積物中嗎﹖那麼在人們認為是洪水沉積物形成的岩層裡,為什麼找不到數以百記甚至數以千記的人類化石呢﹖進一步說,為什麼沒有在其他動物如恐龍化石旁找到人類化石呢?

這些當然是合理的問題,也經常被問到。根據我們對《聖經》裡大洪水的了解,我們也許會期望在洪水形成的岩層中找到人類化石。因此當找不到而又未加思索時,我們就會有些吃驚。然而,(有很多其它證據支持的)《聖經》非常清楚地記載了曾經發生全球性大洪水,且當時的人被毀滅。顯而易見,對缺乏人類化石,必須有一個解釋。下面,我們就通過探討洪水時一些事件可能發生的過程,並根據現在的觀察進行邏輯推理,來嘗試作一解釋,以幫助我們了解,為什麼在洪水形成的岩層中沒有確定無疑的人類化石。

報導的人工製品和骨骼

化石記錄的組成

骨骼的毀壞

懸浮能力

上帝對洪水的本意

結語

註釋

  1. Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts, compiled by William R. Corliss, The Sourcebook Project, Glen Ann, Maryland, USA, 1978.

  2. “A Necklace of a Prehistoric God”, Morrisonville Times, Illinois, June 11, 1891.
      Evidently, in 1889 a Mrs S.W. Culp broke a chunk of coal and found embedded therein a 10- inch [25.4 centimeters], eight-carat gold chain, or so it was claimed (Wysong R.L., The Creation/Evolution Controversy, Inquiry Press, Midland, Michigan, 1976, p. 370).

  3. Whitcomb, J.C. and Morris, H.M., The Genesis Flood, The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1961, pp. 175-176 quote from Otto Stutzer, Geology of Coal (translated by A.C. Noe, University of Chicago Press, 1940), p. 271:
      “In the coal collection in the Mining Academy in Freiberg [Stutzer was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the School of Mines at Freiberg, in Saxony], there is a puzzling human skull composed of brown coal and manganiferous and phosphatie limonite, but its source is not known. This skull was described by Karsten and Dechen in 1842.” I (the present author) have personally verified the existence of this object via correspondence with Prof. Dr R. Vulpius, Professor of Coal Geology at the Freiberg Mining Academy. He describes it as a petrified object which resembles a human skull, and indicated that wide-ranging scientific studies to elucidate its composition and origin were in progress.

  4. The existence and potential significance of these skeletons were first brought to our attention by Bill Cooper, “Human fossils from Noah’s Flood”, Ex Nihilo, vol. 5, no. 3, January 1983, pp. 6-9. Since then debate has raged in the pages of Ex Nihilo (vol. 6, no. 2, November 1983, pp. 31-35) and the Ex Nihilo Technical Journal (vol. 1, 1984, pp. 3051; vol. 2, 1986, pp. 119-153 and vol. 4, 1990, pp. 108-137).
      The skeletons do exist, one being housed in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History) in London, and the report of the excavators indicate that more are in the limestone strata east of the village of Moule on the island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.

  5. Burdick, C.L., “Discovery of human skeletons in Cretaceous Formation”, Creation Research Society Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2, September 1973, pp. 109-110.

  6. Wise, K.P., “The Flood and the fossil record”, an informal talk given at the Institute for Creation Research, San Diego (USA) on August 17, 1988.

  7. Lewin, R., 1990. New Scientist, vol. 128, no. 1745, p. 30.

  8. Wise, Ref. 6.

  9. Dr Tim White (anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley), as quoted by lan Anderson, “Hominoid collar-bone exposed as dolphin’s rib”, New Scientist, 28 April 1983, p. 199.

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