Weird History Synopsis: Creationism Theories: A brief review of some Bible creationism theories inspired by the Evolution v Creationism debate and featuring the Mantracks at Paluxy. Violations Apart from making these adjustments, there is other supporting evidence of this. Examination of the bottom area of the map appears to show islands off the coastline, and yet there are now no such islands. However, the drawing of these islands on the map actually support it’s authenticity. The Seismic Survey of Antarctica, revealed a number of mountain ranges which, when the area was ice-free and sea levels were higher, would have appeared as islands off the coast matching those on the Piri Reis map. However, some researchers have been dismissive of this section of the map, stating that the coastline is probably from elsewhere, purely on the grounds that it cannot possibly be the Antarctic coastline before it was iced over. They propose that the coastline shown is actually part of South America. The argument is that if the land believed to be Antarctica was depicted vertically instead of horizontally it would bear a resemblance to the east coast of South America and could well restore some of the ‘missing’ 900 miles around Drake’s Point. This would also account for the pictures of animals drawn on the map; they would not be in an ice-free Antarctica but in South America. However Piri Reis, himself, answers critics who propose this argument, for he wrote on the map that night in the area shown is only "two hours long", highly indicative of Antarctic latitudes and hardly compatible with South American latitudes. (Those who refuse to accept that the map might show Antarctica in ice-free times forget that the Piri Reis map also shows Greenland to consist of three separate islands under the ice; a fact not known to modern man until the seismic data produced by Paul Emile Victor.) It appears that, somehow, sometime in our prehistory, someone unknown to us walked across the face of the planet, leaving behind intriguing clues to baffle later generations. But could man’s history really be traced back to the time of the dinosaurs?

The riverbed at Paluxy appeared to have squared this circle with proof that man had indeed lived contemporaneously with these giants of the past. However up until the early 1980s the area had only been examined by those who wanted to believe in the mantracks and, as such, a more scientific approach was required to consider the claims made. Indeed up to 1982 mainstream scientists had largely ignored the situation, probably fanning the intrigue they had generated.

Then in 1982, then, a team of four scientists, Laurie Godfrey, Ron Hastings, John Cole and Steve Schafersman travelled to the riverbed to examine the prints for themselves. They called themselves the ‘Raiders of the Lost Tracks’ and in subsequent reports noted that, in their opinion, none of the tracks showed clear human features. Their work was brief, and in fairness not as thorough as could have been expected, however they were the first mainstream scientists to consider the issue. Claims and counter claims were made over subsequent years however the idea that the riverbed in Paluxy has man tracks side by side with dinosaur tracks now holds little credibility.

George Adams, the brother of ‘Bull’ Adams who had made the original find, delivered another body blow. He had cashed in on the interest generated in the tracks by selling what were supposedly individual blocks with ‘mantracks’ on them. However, Adams later admitted that he had created these blocks himself. Adam’s nephew Wayland once even told a group of creationist researchers how his uncle created the ‘tracks’. He advised that his uncle would start with a suitably sized block already containing a depression (making the job easier), and then carve in the human features (31).

In these graves Chi Pu Tei and his assistants discovered 716 stone discs with drawings and indecipherable hieroglyphics which appeared to be thousands of years old. The discs had a hole in the centre (like a gramophone record) from which a double groove traces out a spiral to the circumference. They were not sound tracks but a kind of writing. "When finally freed of all incrustacians the discs were sent to Moscow where it was found that they contained large amounts of cobalt and that they were rhythmically pulsating as though they had electrical charges in them." (33)

The graves were also something of a puzzle in their own right as Chi Pu Tei stated that they contained the skeletons of beings with delicate frames and large skulls. An account of the discovery was made known to the world in 1967 by Dr. Zaitsev, an apparent Soviet philologist, in the periodical ‘Sputnik’. Dr. Zaitsev described how, after twenty years study, a Chinese scientist called Tsum Um Nui and four colleagues had succeeded in deciphering the mysterious script on the stone discs. According to Zaitsev, the story that emerged was so shattering that its release was banned by the then Peking Academy of PreHistory until 1963.

Information gleaned from the deciphered discs stated that a group of alien beings had crash-landed on Earth 12,000 years ago and had neither sufficient power to take off again nor the means to build an alternative craft. They tried to forge relationships with the local inhabitants, however these people proved hostile and some aliens were killed. The remaining visitors hid in the nearby caves. The few that survived left traces of their DNA in two of the local tribes, the ‘Kam’ and ‘Dropa’, tribes who are described as small and lightly built.

This story appears intriguing, however what appears historic fact becomes decidedly fanciful when the author of the book where this account first surfaced is mentioned. Erich Von Daniken.

Yes, the discs are there but little else is based on fact. Daniken quotes his source for this story as a conversation in Moscow in 1968 with Soviet writer Aleksandr Kazantsev and records that the discs themselves and the documentation of their discovery is preserved at the then Peking Academy of Prehistory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences at T’ai-Pei in Taiwan.

However over a period of four years, a journalist and expert in linguistics and anthropology, Gordon Creighton, studied the claims made, and on making further enquiries, drew numerous blanks. Firstly he approached the scientific academies in both T’ai-Pei and Peking for information, however received no response to his enquiries.

He then approached a number of Chinese academics for information, but none of them had even heard of the story. Then he contacted the Soviet writer who had given the story to Von Daniken to check whether he had given Von Daniken an accurate account. However the response was not as expected; far from giving Von Daniken the story, Aleksandr Kazantsev stated that Von Daniken had given it to him.

Then the name Tsum Um Nui came in for scrutiny, for not only are the words ‘Tsum’ ‘Um’ and ‘Nui’ not monosyllables used in the transliteration of the standard spoken Chinese, but the person himself has remained unidentifiable, as has the alleged archaeologist who discovered the grave site, Chi Pu Tei.

Then the claims that the descendant from the aliens were frail and weak, were realised to be also untrue when it was noted that the ‘Kams’ are known as marauding bandits who are held in fear by their neighbours. (Indeed the men of Kam provided the bodyguard to the Tibetan Dalai Lama when he fled from the Chinese invasion.) The Dropa are also described as being a rugged and ferocious people (34).

Claims of alien artefacts litter popular history. Project Blue Book, the official US investigation into the UFO and alien phenomena was regularly sent items of purportedly extraterrestrial origin until it was closed down in 1969.

Right, Major Hector Quintanella, one-time head of Project Blue Book, is shown here with such an assortment of items, amongst them were ordinary radio parts and buckwheat pancakes.

Yet despite the myths and the hoaxes, there does appear to be clear evidence that some form of intelligent life roamed the planet in our prehistory. It may be safer, however to confirm a view that this is verifiable fact by looking at some more recent evidence.

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