2. Finds Reported in American Scientific Journals
In 1831, The American Journal of Science was at it again,
reporting the discovery of raised characters on a block of marble
taken from a quarry near Philadelphia, from a depth of 60-70 feet.
The characters once again suggested an origin by humans who had
worked the stone in the distant past.8
As no evolutionary
college of cardinals existed at the time to suppress archeological
Galileos making inconvenient discoveries, even a prestigious
journal such as Scientific American
could get in on the act. In its June 5, 1852 issue, the journal ran
an account of a discovery of truly “paleoancient”
proportions:
A few days ago a powerful blast was made in the rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, a few rods south of Rev. Mr. Hall’s meeting house. The blast threw out an immense mass of rock, some of the pieces weighing several tons, and scattered fragments in all directions. Among them was picked up a metallic vessel in two parts, rent asunder by the explosion. On putting the two pieces together it formed a bell-shaped vessel, 4-1/2 inches high, 6-1/2 inches at the base, 2-1/2 inches at the top, and about an eighth of an inch in thickness. The body of this vessel resembles zinc in color, or a composition metal, in which there is a considerable portion of silver. On the side there are six figures or a flower, or bouquet, beautifully inlaid with pure silver, and around the lower part of the vessel a vine, or wreath, also inlaid with silver. The chasing, carving, and inlaying are exquisitely done by the art of some cunning workman. This curious and unknown vessel was blown out of the solid pudding stone, fifteen feet below the surface....There is not doubt but that this curiosity was blown out of the rock, as above stated.... The matter is worthy of investigation, as there is no deception in the case.670
Cremo and Thompson
state the implications in no uncertain terms:
According to a recent U.S. Geological Survey map of the Boston-Dorchester area, the pudding stone, now called the Roxbury conglomerate, is of Precambrian age, over 600 million years old. By standard accounts, life was just beginning to form on this planet during the Precambrian. But in the Dorchester vessel we have evidence indicating the presence of artistic metal workers in North America over 600 million years before Leif Erickson.671
In other words,
before there were even dinosaurs, someone of intelligence, with a
culture and a technology to produce such an object of art, existed
on planet Earth, and all this from Scientific
American, before the theory of evolution, and before it was
taken over by that theory’s cardinalate.672