Posted on 09/22/2015 11:17:09 AM PDT by george76
Construction workers in California's Santa Cruz mountains were subject to a surprise delay last week when a team of archaeologists took over the site to remove an ancient whale fossil.
The project site was expected to have a high potential for archaeological finds, so a monitor was assigned to the Scotts Valley development and found the fossil amid construction vehicles on Sept. 4.
This project site is not the only one in California with fossils
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Since the 19th century, paleontologists have been studying the “Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed” near Bakersfield, California, where fossils and bones of ancient whales, seals, dolphins, sharks, and fish have been uncovered.
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At 25 feet long, the archaeologists assigned to the project believe the remains belong to a mysticete whale, an ancient ancestor of the baleen whale.
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Nothing “confusing” about it.
Some human observations, though, are interpreted through the wrong assumptions.
Ever seen the sand on the bottom of the ocean, on the ground, or in a river?
In order to understand geology, my professor once told me, that you have to stop thinking about time in terms of a clock. Or a calendar. Or a lifetime.
Thousands of lifetimes will allow you to comprehend why the Oxbow is put into that river over there.
Hundreds of thousands of lifetimes will allow you to start getting the concept of geologic time.
Tsunami wave ...
Here in the central valley (CA) there are marine beds in the hills. Hunting sharks teeth is common. Several years ago, a turtle shell was dug out that was estimated to be 600 lbs when alive. Our elevation is 400 to 600 feet above sea level.
Or the land level lower. Either case is plausible.
Oh, that kind of whale... :)
Don’t forget the Annunaki. Those giants who toyed with our DNA to enslave us to mine gold for their atmosphere.
I was joking.
Sorry...did not mean to make it sound like I was being mean about the religion.
Sea World was around a LOOOOOONG time before we thought they were?
How could I forget?
There are sharks teeth ALL OVER California. I once found one in someone’s backyard about 10 miles from the ocean and about 1,000 ft. above sea level. It was old and dark brown with tiny fissures in it. Very old.
I do not believe uplift had anything to do with them being there, as sand would've eroded long ago. That means the ocean once covered this area pretty much as it is.
What are the theories accounting for such a dramatically high sea level rise?
Gerald Clark is one interesting dude. His explanation of the Annunaki is so believable it’s scary.
The giants with six fingers and six toes always intrigued me, did not even realize the Bible spoke of others besides Goliath until adulthood.
As a child, I met a young black girl a couple years younger than me who had had six fingers on each hand, and the nubs where they had been removed were prominent past her pinkies.
They say all sorts of crazy things and lemmings lap it and beg for more.
A great bamboozler of recent history wrote:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
---Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools," (Romans 1:22)
If whales could read, they would understand:
NO CETACEANS BEYOND THIS POINT
If their dating of millions years old is correct, then the first recorded flood in Genesis 1:2 would be the explanation.
This is an “uplifting” story, geologically speaking.
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