Yakushima Megaliths; Nature or Nuture?

by Chris Parker

Yakushima is an island in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, known for its wildlife and cedar forests. In the northwest is Nagata Inaka-Hama, a beach with seasonal loggerhead turtle nesting grounds.

The central Mt. Miyanoura is marked by the Arakawa trail and the ancient Jōmon Sugi tree. In the east, Yakusugi Museum has exhibits about the region’s cedar forests. The western shore is home to towering Ōko-no-taki waterfall…Wikipedia
World Heritage designation

Yaku-sugi (Jomon-sugi)

In 1980 an area of 18,958 ha (46,850 acres) was designated a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve.[2] In 1993, 10 hectares (25 acres) of wetland at Nagata-hama was designated a Ramsar Site.[3] It is the largest nesting ground for the endangered loggerhead sea turtle in the North Pacific.[1][4] Yakushima's unique remnant of warm/temperate ancient forest has been a natural World Heritage Site since 1993.

In the Wilderness core area (12.19 square kilometres (3,010 acres)) of the World Heritage Site, no record of past tree cutting can be traced.[5] The island is visited by 300,000 tourists every year.

The island is roughly circular and encompasses an area of approximately 300 square miles. Approximately 90% of the island is mountainous and the villages on the island are concentrated along the coastline.
There are some interesting megalithic structures on Yakushima which are not even mentioned in the Wikipedia segment about the island under its several headings.

In science’s consistent way of dealing with “out of place artifacts”, many believe that nature and not nuture created the monuments on Yakushima. Here is a translated from Japanese entry on the monuments that utilizes that millions of years of nature paradigm to explain the origin of the megaliths.

“The base of the strata of Yakushima is granite , which is about 14 million years ago, magma penetrated into the sedimentary layer (called the Hyuga Group) at the bottom of the sea and became granite, which has risen and is now in its shape . (Therefore, the geology of the island is mostly granite and Hyuga Group) In addition, around 20,000 years ago (Ice Age),

Yakushima and Kyushu mainland were continental.

The representative rock is the photo on the left with the heavenly pillar (40 m height) of Tayuthakadake .

The raised granite took a long time to erode, weathered and it became such a unique figure. Even if people try to make it could they sculpture so beautifully?

There are many strange rocks at the top of the mountains of Yakushima, including Tenjyo Stone, and there are various names such as toft rock, candle rock, shobu rock, etc., depending on its shape.

It is estimated that Yakushima is uplifted about 1 m in 1000 years still, but it is estimated that it is eroded about 87 cm and it can be said that it is about 13 cm higher in 1000 years after deducting it. I feel the wonder of the Earth's orogenic activity."

http://alkyaku.sakura.ne.jp/yaku-gaiyou.htm

How about you? Did “nature” carve these megaliths or was their also human design involved? 

If you have a view of earth’s history informed by by Genesis-as I do- then the millions of year carving by the wind and rain explanation won’t work for you.

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