I recently purchased a booklet by John Allen Watson, Man Dinosaurs and Mammals Together, that goes into detail about his research of the South Carolina phosphate beds where fossils had previously been recovered showing man roaming the Earth at the same time as dinosaurs. Mr. Watson, who is now retired and resides in Texas, got his Bachelor of Science in geology from the University of Texas @ Austin with continuing education courses in hydrology and meteorology, working for a time as a hydrologist with the Texas Water Commission. He worked with creation scientists on his research project. Here are excerpts from his booklet to update my previous post:
“In South Carolina, centering on the Charleston vicinity, is a geological/paleontological phenomenon which defies satisfactory explanation by popular evolutionary-uniformitarian theory. This is the enigma of the rock phosphate beds, locally known loosely as the Ashley Beds, an enormous graveyard of animals ranging through the geologic column from Cretaceous to Holocene–and including the occurrence of man. Mixed together in a pell-mell fashion are the remains of living things as ancient (by popular theory) as dinosaurs and as recent as early man.” (p. 10.)
“The origin of the rock phosphate beds/stratum is rather obvious: a derivation of the phosphoric acid of the bones. Such was the opinion from chemists of many fertilizer companies engaged in mining the valuable deposits. The deposits, as a result, were popularly known by the chemists and the public as true bone phosphates. By one estimate … the bones made up 65% of the deposits in the region of the Ashley River basin. Creationists of the time accepted this idea. But uniformitarian geologists/paleontologists in general have not accepted the obvious bone origin of the rock phosphate deposits and still cast about for an evolutionary-uniformitarian origin for them.” (p. 11)
Since remains of land animals and sea animals were found together, a catastrophic event “would have included the burial of enormous numbers of animals … and their subsequent conversion into rock phosphate over a region of at least 200 miles by 30 miles in extent–which is only the partially exposed part. Such an event is of the order and magnitude of the worldwide Noahic Flood.”, (p. 13)
“The occurrence of hadrosaurine dinosaur remains in the Ashley phosphate beds … has not been dealt with in the secular scientific literature–the silence is typical. The occurrence is documented in two sources: 1) by Frances S. Holmes, a well known professor of geology/paleontology and agriculture at the College of Charleston [Holmes, F. S., 1870. The Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina and the Great Carolina Marl Bed, Holmes Book House, p. 31], and 2) by J. C. Keener, a minister of rank [Keener, J. C. 1900. The Garden of Eden and the Flood, Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, p. 63].” (p. 20)
Mr. Watson discusses all of the arguments conjured up by evolutionists to explain away this phenomenon. One such argument by Maurice Slansky (Geology of Sedimentary Phosphates) deals with upwelling currents to explain the amount of phosphate found in the region. But his “uniformitarian view ignores the great potential that animal bones have as a source of calcium phosphate. … The first phosphate fertilizers consisted solely of crushed bones. Bones were burned for fuel (Ezekiel 24:5) and the ash used for manufacturing very high grade super phosphate and pure phosphate products. The ash of the average bone is 87 percent calcium phosphate. Thus, bones are probably the richest source of calcium phosphate of sedimentary phosphates. By contrast, the ocean water source of phosphate from upwelling currents is very, very meager, only 1 x 10 [to the -5th] percent … One estimate of the bone fraction of the South Carolina phosphate rocks is 65 percent … The rocks are reported ‘…to contain as high as 60 or even more, per centum of calcium phosphate…’ …Therefore, how can we escape the reasonableness and evidence of a bone origin for the rocks and opt for the popular oceanic origin? We can do so only to serve evolutionary theory at the cost of truth.” (p. 26-27)
A list of the many fossils found in the phosphate beds include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Mastodon (teeth, vertebrae, bones)
- Elephant (teeth, tail, ear bones, tusk)
- Horse (extinct species, teeth, tibia)
- Monkey (femora)
- Raccoon (teeth)
- Dolphin (skull, vertebra, tail bone)
- Manatee (skull, bones, ribs)
- Iguanodon dinosaur (bones)
- Hadrosaurus dinosaur (bones)
- Plesiosaurus dinosaur (teeth)
- Crocodile (heads, teeth, ribs)
- Sand shark (teeth)
- Tiger shark (teeth)
- Swordfish (Jaw)
- American Indian (jaws, teeth, bones, pottery, arrowheads, brass weights)
Another area in North America showing that man (giants) and dinosaurs co-existed is the Taylor Trail in Glen Rose, Texas. You can view pictures of it here. There have been reports that evolutionists who fear the truth have visited such sites to deface them so the evidence will be destroyed.
I would suggest that you purchase John Allen Watson’s inexpensive and informative booklet for more information.
Source: Watson, John Allen. Man Dinosaurs and Mammals Together: Phosphate Rocks/Bone Phosphates of South Carolina: An Analysis of Their Occurrence, Origin, Importance and Instruction for the Creation/Evolution Controversy. Crosbyton, TX: Mt. Blanco Publishing Co., 2001.
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