at www.creationtalk.com this article: http://joe3998.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/strangerelics.pdf was posted. I have thus far been unable to actually find anything in the bibliography, since none of the articles I looked up are available online, and most of the other sources are books. So, I was wondering if anyone actually has any of the books or articles listed (or knows where to find them online), and if so, do the sources even mention anything in the article?
I have the odd feeling that everything in the article is made up, or horribly misrepresented, not that that’s odd for something written by a creationist.
Most of the things mentioned in the article are are known as OOPA - Out of Place Artifacts. They are constantly recycled from one text to the other in creationist and other pseudoscience publications.
The question that needs to be answered the meaning of this random collection. Does the writer ever go back to access the objects to see whether the bones are truly human, or found exactly when and where they were said to, or subject to any modern testing? No, never. Nor does he ever reference a single other researcher who has does the research.
All claims are taken exactly as given and assumed with no evidence whatsoever to be completely true. This is a common pattern among all pseudoscience writers. You’ll see this among people who want to prove that aliens built the pyramids or that dinosaurs still exist in Africa.
This is also an older article. Some human footprint claims have been exposed at outright hoaxes since that time.
His description of evolution, BTW, is totally false as to be laughable.
A good place to start when dealing with creationist claims is talkorigin.org.
A search there reveals this article on “Out Of Place ARTifactS”, in which Jochmans article is referenced.
This TalkOrigins article says one of the curious objects J.R. Jochmans is discussing is a mud-encased sparkplug.