THE ASHLEY PHOSPHATE BEDS. AN EVOLUTIONIST'S WORST NIGHTMARE
By Chris Parker
The Ashley Phosphate Beds: Fossils of man, Dinosaur, Mammoth and Many Other Bones MIXED TOGETHER
One of the most fascinating fossil graveyard of all time is located in the southern United States. The Ashley Beds is an enormous phosphate graveyard that contains mixed remains of man with land and sea animals, notably dinosaurs, pleisosaurs, whales, sharks, rhinos, horses, mastodons, mammoths, porpoises, elephants, deer, pigs, dogs, and sheep. Basically, it shouldn't exist if evolution were true. NOT. AT. ALL.
This catalogue of fossils from the phosphate beds was given in the records of Major Edward Willis who displayed them at multiple expositions (Willis, “Fossils and Phosphate Specimens,” 1881.)
Professor F.S. Holmes (paleontologist and curator of the College of Charleston’s Natural History Museum) described the fossil graveyard in a report to the Academy of Natural Sciences:
“Remains of the hog, the horse and other animals of recent date, together with human bones mingled with the bones of the mastodon and extinct gigantic lizards.”
There can be little doubt what extinct gigantic lizard he referenced for he pictured a hadrosaurus on the front of his 1870 book The Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina and captioned it: “Skeleton of a Fossil Lizard eighteen feet in Length.”
Moreover, on page 31 he wrote, “It was in this Post-Pleiocene age, the period when the American Elephant, or Mammoth, the Mastodon, Rhinoceros, Megathereum, Hadrosaurus, and other gigantic quadrupeds roamed the Carolina forests, and repaired periodically to these Salt-lakes”… (p. 31.)
The mixing of these remains was pell-mell throughout the roughly 40 square mile area of this deposit around Charleston, South Carolina. By one estimate, bones made up 65% of the extraordinary phosphate deposits in the region of the Ashley River basin before it was largely mined out. (Keener, J.C., The Garden of Eden and the Flood, 1901, p. 244.)
Evolutionists have tried to propose a credible mechanism for mixing creatures from Cretaceous to Holocene in this strata, but none has been satisfactory and the matter has been expunged from current references to this site. (Watson, John Allen, Man, Dinosaurs, and Mammals Together, 2001, p. 7.)
Sounds like a great big flood mixed all of these bones together. Wonder where that came from? Genesis perhaps?
Where you can find the Book: Phosphate rocks of South Carolina and the "great Carolina marl bed", with five colored illustrations. A popular and scientific view of their origin, geological position and age; also their chemical character and agricultural value; together with a history of their discovery and development
Sources: s8nt.com
https://archive.org/.../phosphaterocksof.../page/n2/mode/1up
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/phosphate/id/384
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