Dear Mark Looy et al: Subject:
My letter responding to a geologist's letter attacking
This letter to the Columbus OH Dispatch was printed after some effort to
get the editors attention. His name is Grant and seemed to be a reasonable
person once he saw the evidence and heard from me several times [politely
but firmly --- I also called and thanked him]. The subject of my reply was
on dinosaurs and human coexistence for which AIG was ridiculed by a
geologist named Baillieul; other letter writers and several editorialists
likewise ridiculed Creationists on this subject . You may be
interested in my last paragraph which is a challenge to
evolutionism community on Dinosaur soft-tissue. Do you have a copy of
the Doheny report noted in my letter?
LETTER:
December
14, 2005 [printed on Wednesday December
27, 2005---Editor
deleted writings in red].
In this two month long continual attack on ID and creation only two
letters appeared for our side, a philosophical one and one from AIG
defending their museum and their activities.
The letter below is the only one from either side that gave actual field
observations.
MAN-DINOSAUR
COEXISTENCE KNOWN YEARS AGO
This
is in response to geologist Tom Baillieul's letter of December 3, 2005,
"Folks behind
Creation
Museum
good at twisting facts." His and other recent letter writers and
editorialists implied that man and dinosaur did not live at the same
time. Perhaps this demonstrates an ignorance of historical
geology and archaeology.
Long
before Answers in Genesis's museum and its director Ken Ham were born
major museums were aware that dinosaurs and man coexisted.
Dr.
Charles Gilmore, curator of vertebrate paleontology of the famous United
States Museum of Natural History, and Samuel Hubbard of the Oakland
CA Museum confirmed in 1924 that man and dinosaur coexisted
together as evidenced by their 40 page report discovered buried in
the files of the Oakland Museum entitled "Discoveries Relating to
Prehistoric Man." There on the front cover of their expedition's
report is the photo of a carving of a Diplodocus dinosaur on the wall
of the
Hava
Supai
Canyon
of the Grand Canyon in
Northern Arizona
. On page 11 is a drawing based on a skeleton in American Museum of
Natural History, NY City which is 84 feet long. This is just the tip
of the iceberg.
There
is a Petroglyph resembling a Brontosaurus in
Natural
Bridges
National Monument
attributed to the Anasazi Indians (500 to 1300 AD). Also a carving of
a Triceratops including the characteristic three horns and neck frill
in Montrose county,
Colorado
attributed to the Fremont Indians who were contemporary with the Anasazi.
In
Peru
over 30 % of some 11,000 burial stones (~500 BC) found since the
1930's in human graves contained carved depictions of dinosaurs such as
T-rex, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. Many carvings are in
"storage" in a major museum and 100's of others are in a private
museum in
Peru
. These stones are mentioned by a Catholic priest missionary and an
Inca historian of the 16th century.
In
Mexico
2600 of some 30,000 clay figurines excavated since 1945
depicted many different dinosaurs including Hadrosaurs and T-Rex's
interacting with man. (500 BC to 500 AD).
Just
for kicks why not challenge the discoverers of the T-Rex soft tissue of
Montana
to C-14 date the tissue (only 3 mg. per sample is required for three
different labs)? This could help settle the controversy and we'd all be
the wiser. Meanwhile check out www.omniology.com.
Hugh
Miller, research
chemist,
Columbus
1215
Bryson Rd.
Columbus
OH
43224
614-263-8613
PS:
You have all the data, references etc with photos from my previous
correspondence and drop offs. Thanks for your reconsideration.
Hugh