Most of these findings are completely bogus.
How do you know that? Which ones aren’t bogus?
How about an eye witness account, then?
Stalactites are supposed to take “millions of years” to form, yet on a field trip to the C&O Canal in the 70s, my science teacher [with a perfectly straight face] pointed out a cluster of 4-8 inch skinny ones that were hanging from the roof of the stone tunnel leading to the canal at McCoy’s Ferry.
The tunnel was built at the same the time the canal was.
He was also the person who taught us about the length of time necessary for their formation.
Is that “bogus”?
Personally, I don’t think “science” has a clue about anything regarding “time”, *really*.
Life is a wonderful, unsolvable mystery and I’m not “threatened” by that one bit.
In fact, I love it.
Who cares? They make for great discussions with my teenager as to how these things could have occurred.
(We like time travel for the battery in the geode.)
Anything that gets a teenager talking about something other than video games . . .