Claim CC130:
An iron hammer with wooden handle was found embedded in rock in Cretaceous
sediments (or Ordovician, by some accounts) near London, Texas. The
enclosing rock contains Lower Cretaceous fossils.
Source:
Response:
- The hammer is encrusted with calcium carbonate, which can happen
quickly. The fossils are in nearby rocks, not part of the material
encrusting the hammer. There is no evidence that the hammer is more
than a few decades old.
Links:
Kuban, Glen J. 1997. The London hammer: An alleged out-of-place artifact.
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/hammer.htm
Matson, Dave E. 1994. How good are those young-earth arguments?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-gc.html#G4d
Further Reading:
Cole, John R. 1985. If I had a hammer. Creation/Evolution 5(1): 46-47.
created 2000-11-4, modified 2003-4-27
