Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man

by Susan B. Martinez, Ph. D.

  Red sandstone*90 . . . limestone, gravel conglomerates, and other formations extend over exceedingly wide geographical areas. The problem posed by these strata is that they suggest a blanketing of the planet from extraterrestrial sources. Sedimentary rocks are something more than we have been taught. . . . Our planet has been blanketed by much extraterrestrial matter in previous times.

  VINE DELORIA JR., RED EARTH, WHITE LIES

  Surface finds present their own share of problems. Hominid fossils found near the surface are much more likely to be contaminated with superfluous material of both different origin and different age. Java’s Sangiran hominids almost all occur on the surface, making their real age uncertain. In Africa, H. habilis femurs were found right on the surface—which didn’t stop Richard Leakey from dating them to 2.6 myr. Few of the locations where important paleoanthropological discoveries have been made can thus qualify—and that includes the whole australopithecine family of Africa, as well as H. habilis and H. erectus, which occur on the surface or in cave deposits, the latter also notoriously hard to gauge geologically.

  Most hominid fossils gotten prior to World War II were taken from caves. Yet dating cave finds is iffy, for they tend to get “churned” up; recent material can get sucked down in “swallow holes.” Glaciers also mixed up cave deposits. Significantly, most caves older than 150 kyr have collapsed or been flushed of deposits—yet Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and most other South African Au for that matter are from caves and insouciantly dated ten times older than that! “Time resolution of cave deposits is poor,” admits Richard Leakey.49 Often a jumble of material, such finds tend to be hopelessly scrambled. Most Neanderthals were found in caves, as were the hominids at Sima de los Huesos, Grimaldi, Krapina, Chapelle, Belgium, Dusseldorf, Moravia, Mt. Carmel, and Peking.

  Volcanic regions are also notoriously problematic. On Java, those (surface) Sangiran hominids were found at the foot of a volcano; here, Trinil’s H. erectus, in volcanic rock, is dated to the early Pleistocene or even Pliocene (more than 2 myr). Africa’s Skull 1470 was also found in a volcanic context; the KBS tuff for 1470 gave a scatter from 500 kyr to 17 myr! While volcanic activity does enhance fossilization, the ash and pumice in such beds tend to become eroded and transported by streams and rivers.

  The Olduvai Beds in Tanzania are also interspersed with volcanic material: the radiometric dating of these ash layers, encasing the deposits, gives Ardi an age of 4.4 myr. This date, however, has been questioned, for Ardi’s region is difficult to date radiometrically. Also dated in the millions of years, East Africa’s controversial Laetoli footprints are impressed in volcanic ash, just as Lucy herself was dated from lava flows; but lava flow may easily contain older rocks.

  COSMIC CLIMATE

  While evolutionists routinely turn to climate shifts and other supposed environmental challenges as the alleged trigger of natural selection and, therefore, of evolution itself—largely overlooked are the vagaries of cosmic change, the cosmic climate—and its inexorable effect on terrestrial geology. Not much is known about these nonterrestrial imponderables.

  Scientists have spoken of the difficulty in dating objects that have had contact with electricity, which can distort the results of radiometric dating and of mutation rates. This has been (experimentally) shown in plant seeds and fish eggs. An electrical field of high concentration, or solar flares, can alter decay rates. In this regard, Stephen E. Robbins has warned: “When the atoms of the nucleus are excited, decay is much quicker, making things look vastly older. Cataclysms on a vast scale involve high energies that could easily alter radiometric clocks.”50

  Decay rates were much faster . . . in the past.

  JONATHAN SARFATI, REFUTING COMPROMISE

  Blanketing is another phenomenon, which is to say, extraneous material falling to Earth (extraterrestrial debris), resulting in contamination by older cosmic material gathered up in Earth’s vortex. This interstellar dust (which NASA calls space clouds and which, according to the nebula theory, actually formed Earth) is older than Earth itself. As reported by the U.S. Geological Survey, each year tens of thousands of tons of interstellar dust still fall to Earth (some say 80 million pounds of space dust are added to Earth per annum). This cosmic dust influx, others estimate, could amount to anywhere from 10,000 to 700,000 tons per day. With so much space dust accumulated, could a 5-million-year-old creature even be dug up from the depths?

  Consider some of the highly charged events in our planet’s history, as witnessed by regions of Earth like the Gobi Desert with its irradiated sands, or by Earth scars and bombardments like the ancient tektites (glassy blobs) in Java, India, Australia, and France; or the strange black stones called harras in the Arabian desert; or vitrified areas in India and Libya, so like those in America’s Death Valley and the fused stone ruins near the Gila River (remembered by the Hopi as fire from heaven). Or the melted stones at Brazil’s Sete Cidades. Or Scotland’s and Ireland’s vitrified hill forts, calcinated by extreme heat. Or Turkey’s and Iran’s fused rocks that appear blasted from above (similar to the floor of New Mexico, where it was scarred by the first A-bomb tests).

  Do these represent the brimstone of high antiquity? seventy-five thousand years ago when Earth’s atmosphere had not quite settled down, “the gases of her low regions [were] purified to make more places for mortals. . . . Fire, brimstone,*91 iron and phosphorus fell upon the earth . . . and this shower reached into the five divisions of the earth.”51

  Some time around 22,000 years ago, “the earth . . . [was] dripping wet and cold in the ji’ayan eddies . . . [bringing] a spell of darkness.”52 And again, ca 8,000 years ago, “a’ji began to fall. The belt of meteoris gave up its stones, and showers of them rained down on the earth.”53 Aren’t thick rock layers (showing little time between layers) consistent with the rapid deposition of such sky falls?

  Figure 6.4. A’ ji: degree of density needed to create a world; dark period on Earth sometimes accompanied by stone showers and other strange phenomena. A’ ji signifies interstellar fields of greater densities and different properties.

  Contrary to the uniformitarian view, so essential to evolutionism, early Earth and past processes cannot be judged altogether by present ones. “Extraterrestrial forces periodically disrupt the normal course of life. . . . The episodic course of natural history [redefines] the uniformitarianism of Hutton and Lyell . . . looking beyond the planet.”54 Thomas Henry Huxley, in fact, thought the remote period saw Earth passing through physical and chemical conditions “which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy.”55 His good friend Charles Darwin had to acknowledge Huxley’s and Lord Kelvin’s view that early Earth was subject to more rapid and violent changes. Indeed, Darwin deleted his section on steady sedimentation as a reliable chronometer (from the 1868 edition of Origin), after contemplating Lord Kelvin’s work, including his, Kelvin’s, more recent dating of Earth (see chapter 10).

  Thousands of feet of sediments have buried the coral reefs; but not always in steady increments. Certain (polystrate) fossil trees seem to have been laid down rapidly; and there are signs of other episodes of super-sedimentation: consider the times of “Luts wherein there falls on a planet condensed earthy substances, such as clay, stones, ashes, and disseminated molten metals, in such great quantities that it can be compared to snowstorms, piling up corporeal substance on the earth to a depth of many feet, and in drifts up to hundreds of feet. Luts was . . . a time of destruction.”56 Around 12 kya, “there came great darkness on the earth, with falling ashes and heat and fevers.”57

  Figure 6.5. Luts: seasons of the firmament. Luts is the opposite of dan (light). It is also the brimstone of biblical fame. “Great cities [were] . . . covered up by falling nebulae” (Oahspe, Book of Sethantes 9.13).

  The Finnish Kalevala recalls hailstones of iron that fell from the sky. Before our planet stabilized, long periods of darkness, luts, meteorites, stone showers, “star oil,” and other destructive sky falls assailed Earth, lasting someti
mes for hundreds of years. The quantity and quality of such precipitations to Earth have been greatly variable. The substance of a’ji and falling nebulae may be so fine, it is invisible to the eye; nevertheless, it is capable of building up in very short periods. “Mortals did not see the a’ji; but they saw their cities and temples sinking, as it were, into the ground; yet in truth they were not sinking, but were covered by the a’ji falling and condensing.”58

  BIG POPULATIONS AND EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

  [A]ll the growing body of evidence for “art” before 40,000 years ago is simply dismissed and ignored.

  PAUL BAHN, NATURE MAGAZINE

  Ironically, the flip side of science’s extravagant long dating is the stubborn refusal to recognize any sign of civilization earlier than, say, 6 or 7 kya. The same intellectual establishment that has overestimated man’s time on Earth (by millions of years) turns around and underestimates man’s achievements by at least 40,000 years.

  Similarly, there is the fixed idea that human populations in the Pleistocene were small. This belief reflects academia’s wholesale dismissal of lost races and extinct civilizations, a factor that, sooner or later, will blow up in their face.

  A World Filled with People

  Spencer Wells, a population geneticist and molecular anthropologist who collected DNA samples from (living) people all over the world to trace the roots of human history, states that his data reveal “as few as 2,000 people were alive some 70,000 years ago.”59 This outrageous claim is on a par perhaps with Brian Fagan’s assertion that mankind became almost extinct 73,000 years ago due to a Sumatran volcanic eruption: “there were very few of them indeed.”60

  The geneticists’ assumptions concerning human populations may be off target: The problem here is that each population has a separate demographic history, which invalidates the use of mtDNA to clock past events in any standard way. Population size alone can throw off its accuracy: for example, if a population grows more in one region than another, this can lead to greater (genetic) diversity; it would not, as claimed, be necessarily older—which circumstance queers the whole genetic distance premise.

  Banish the thought that primitive populations were always sparse.

  WILLIAM CORLISS, THE UNEXPLAINED

  Small population? Why, man filled Earth, at least according to Genesis 1:28, 6:1, and 6:11, as well as chapters 10 and 11. Ironically, it was Malthus’s very idea of too-large populations that inspired Darwin to postulate fierce competition and survival only of the fittest. Despite this, Darwin did indeed embrace small populations, if only because his model of speciation required small isolated groups in order for changes to take hold.

  The world hath been peopled over many times and many times laid desolate.

  OAHSPE, BOOK OF APOLLO 2:7

  Peak populations followed by swift collapse have been well documented by British historian Arnold Toynbee and more recently by Jared Diamond. There were, to give one example, up to fourteen million people in Central Peten (classic Mayan) civilization, reduced to a mere thirty thousand by the sixteenth century. In tribal legend, too, the people of Melanesia and Vanuatu actually say the mortality of men (the origin of death) was due to overcrowding on Earth. Likewise does Vietnamese legend speak of primordial overcrowding that got so bad the poor lizard could not go about without someone stepping on its tail. Sources such as Babylonian and Persian creation cycles say the reason for the flood was overpopulation; just as the Greek Zeus planned a war to reduce population.

  The Oahspe chronicles recount that the Ihins alone once “covered over the whole earth, more than a thousand million of them.”61 Worldwide population counts embedded in these scriptural histories may be summarized as follows.62

  TABLE 6.2. WORLDWIDE POPULATION COUNTS

  Years Ago Population

  70,000 Over 2 billion

  67,000 Almost 4 billion

  63,000 4.8 billion

  60,000 6.4 billion

  57,000 8 billion

  53,000 9 billion

  50,000 9.4 billion

  41,000 10.8 billion

  While William Whiston, an eighteenth-century Cambridge theorist, correctly, I think, estimated the preflood population at more than 8 billion, paleontologists today guess at only a few million people or possibly as few as 1.3 million humans ca 50 kya,63 at which time there were supposedly only 15,000 to 20,000 Neanderthals in Europe and Eurasia: “tiny numbers of people,”64 or as Erik Trinkaus put it: “There were very few people on the landscape.”65

  Around this time (Aurignacian), however, a great accumulation of Cro-Magnon “cultural debris”66 speaks of quite large populations in Europe as well as a “very large population in Swaziland” (35 kya).67 All the continents and islands of Earth were inhabited. There was no wilderness, for mortals were prolific, many of the mothers bringing forth two score sons and daughters, and from two to four at a birth.*92

  The inhabitants of the Earth were before the Flood vastly more numerous than the present Earth.

  THOMAS BURNET, SACRED THEORY OF THE EARTH

  There were also great cities in all the divisions of Earth before the flood, but all were cast down. Later, after the flood, in the time of Apollo (ca 18 kya), the Ihins in America alone numbered 4 million souls; and at that time there were in the world hundreds of millions of Ihuans and ground people.68 Yet, for this period, the Mesolithic, paleontologists put a mere 10 million people on Earth, or as few as 5 million.69

  Twenty Thousand Years of Civilization

  If human beings didn’t really put together an advanced society until well into the Holocene, why does the Paleolithic give us cities tens of thousands of years ago? Freeze-frame 70 kya: “Mortals had given up the . . . [wilderness] and come to live in villages and cities.”70 Oahspe tells us that around this time the first written language in the world (Semoin) was developed, with characters engraved and copies brought to all the cities in the world (see figure 6.6).71

  Figure 6.6. Semoin tablet from Oahspe.

  Independent researchers have discovered that cultured AMHs coexisted with archaic types: “parallel to the hunter gatherer societies . . . a higher level of civilization also existed. . . . Humans more than 20,000 years ago had precise knowledge of major star coordinates. . . . The Egyptian calendar’s starting date . . . is within 400 years of the oldest Mayan date, recorded as 51,611 years ago on the Chincultic ceramic disk.”72 *93 Indeed, Martianus Capella stated that the Egyptians had secretly studied the stars for 40,000 years before revealing their knowledge; Diogenes Laertius also dated Egyptian astronomy to 48,863 years before Alexander the Great.

  The Babylonian priest Kidinnu, about 15,000 years ago, was an astronomer who knew the facts relating to the yearly movement of the sun and moon, this science also predicting lunar eclipses with precision. North of Babylon (and possibly its mother culture), Gobekli Tepe, with its ancient observatory (the site also a ritual center, a sanctuary), is dated to 14,000 BP. This recently discovered star chamber in the highlands of Old Turkey, with finely carved reliefs on massive columns (five meters high), is aligned north–south (as is the much later Great Pyramid of Egypt), betraying a precise knowledge of geodesy 7,000 years earlier than the presumed beginning of exact science. Similar temples of the same age are being explored at Karahantepe, Sefertepe, and Hamzantepe, all antedating the Neolithic.73

  The first period of civilization brought navigation, printed books, schools, astronomy, and agriculture.74 Agriculture and other arts may go back as far as 45 kya: “Her people have tilled all the soil of the earth . . . feeding great centers with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in all the five divisions of the earth.”75 Pottery fragments found in Belgium in Mousterian layers are dated 50 kyr, and here some of the Spy II specimens show AMH traits.76 The ceramic arts (usually associated with sedentary agriculturalists) are in evidence in Czechoslovakia (Moravia) as well, at the 29 kyr site of Dolni Vestonice, a populace that also produced carvings, engravings, portraiture. “Explain Dolni Vestonice, and you explain huma
nity.”77 This extensive settlement, boasting dwellings up to fifty by thirty feet, was a thriving town long before the Holocene, even though their ceramics (fired clay) and kilns are not supposed to be there until the agricultural revolution of the Neolithic, 20 kyr later. Archaeologists have also uncovered 28 kyr agriculture (evidence of cultivated grains and related tools) in the Solomon Islands.78

  Twenty thousand years ago, in a short-lived golden age, there were thousands of cities with great canal works, but all were destroyed by the time of Apollo.79 However, in time, they built up again and by 12 kya, thousands of cities thrived in the lands of Ham (Africa) and Guatama (America)80 where it has been estimated that the great mounds along the lower Mississippi had “a population as numerous as . . . the Nile or the Euphrates. . . . Cities similar to those of ancient Mexico, of several hundred thousand souls, have existed in this country.”81 Man’s existence in America, we realize, has been steadily pushed back from 6 kya to 10 to 20 to 30 and even 40 kya (see more on this in appendix F). Louis Leakey, in his New World foray, ignored conventional chronologies and dated American material culture to 48 kya.

  Even if archaeologists say the first cities in the world came about 4500 BP (and strictly in the Old World), a lost horizon lies buried deep in the hidden earth: “The Ihins . . . built mounds of wood and earth . . . hundreds and thousands of cities and mounds built they.”82 Nor should we dismiss records of such lost cultures as known to the Hindus, Tibetans, Persians, Chinese, Polynesians, Maya, Zimbabweans—each with traditions of previous “worlds” and every one of them waved off, discredited, or simply ignored by the same experts who promote the fable of 5-myr man! Proceed cautiously within their precincts. Therein lies wizardry.

  If our dating is wrong, “we might,” mused Robert Schoch, “be forced to not only rethink our science, but to rethink our history as well. . . . The stakes could not be higher.”83