[Oatka]

Being a fan of this kind of stuff, a lot was familiar but some were not. Gotta be some hoaxes in there but scientists and museums have been known to ignore things that don't fit current hypothesis.

I've always wondered if dating items by their depth in geologic strata is not completely false. Don't forget that the earth's mantle/crust is comparatively thin. If there were shifts in the earth's axis, the oceans would leave their beds and lay tons of sediment as it sloshed about. Land would fold and crumple up like tissue paper. Plate tectonics can't account for all the fossilized fish found high in the mountains or in shoals, as they have been in the UK.

Lots of stuff can be better answered by looking into catastrophism instead of the current accretion theory that says that the earth has been stable these millions of years.

And whereinL did all that oil come from? Does ANYBODY still believe it comes from buried dinosaurs?

[djf]

The strangest (but perhaps the best) of the theories I've heard about where all the oil came from is:


Fish. Humongous fish die offs, that get covered by silt, and then decompose to simple carboniferous chains.

Here is a site that has spectacular pictures of weird skulls:

http://www.enigmas.org/aef/lib/archeo/askulls.shtml