Can a person turn to stone? Petrified by God's punishment. Prayers: the policeman turned gray with fear
In the town of Falun, there is an old mine. She is over a thousand years old. The roofs of half of Europe are covered with copper from it, and during the time of Charles XII, cannons were cast from this copper. Many stories and legends are associated with this mine, which has been under the protection of UNESCO for several years. I will tell about one of them. (Unfortunately, little is written about this on the Internet, all this is told by guides in the mine).
One day, in 1719, a dead miner was found in one of the adits. The body was brought to the surface and many onlookers gathered to look at it. Death was not uncommon in the mine, but this time it was a little different. The problem was that no one could identify the miner. The matter is complicated by the fact that no one last days was not reported missing. A few hours later, an old woman joined the gathering, and it was then that she said with bitterness in her voice that the deceased miner was none other than her fiancé, who disappeared 42 years ago. His name was Mats Israelsson, or Fat Mats, and he worked in a mine in 1677. The miner's body was so well preserved in the water soaked in mineral salts that he looked exactly the same as on the day he disappeared. Even the tobacco in his pocket looked fresh.
The event was amazing, and when a few days later the body was petrified by exposure to fresh air, no one knew what to do next. The main question was this: was Mats a mineral that should have been thrown into the dump or a person who should have been buried in accordance with all the rules.
The head of the mine wrote a letter to Stockholm and asked for advice. "Maybe you need him in a mineral cabinet? You can't bury such an absurdity…" The answer was not long in coming, the PR pioneers advised putting Mats on public display. This is how Mats became known as the "Petrified Man" and stood as an exhibit for 30 years.
After a while, the body began to break down. They tried to repair it with the help of threads, cloth and wire, but soon its appearance became completely unpresentable. In 1749, with pomp and ceremony, he was buried in a local church. For various reasons, the coffin was rearranged many times and eventually ended up in the attic. In 1900, it again became a tourist attraction, being placed in a wooden red box with a glass lid. Many schoolchildren came to look at the curiosity, and they say that people are still alive who saw Fat Mats, who died in 1677, with their own eyes. Only in 1930 was he truly buried in the church cemetery. His gravestone is made in the form of a copper sign.
Mats is the world's most famous Falun resident. A sort of local "Lenin".
Can man turn to stone? Pagan legends and biblical stories show that this is quite real and happened more than once in antiquity. Remember stories about Medusa Gorgon or naughty Lot's wife. Modern scientists do not exclude that such a transformation is possible in reality. The question is, by whose will and how does it happen?
This amazing story happened a few years ago in Samara... “A fiancé came to Zoya for Christmas Lent. Zoe's devout mother begged her daughter not to throw a party on Lent Day, but she could not be persuaded. The mother goes to church, and Zoya meets her friends with young people, a total of fourteen. The fifteenth should be Nicholas, the groom, but he is not. They wait about an hour, and then they start having fun. They dance. Zoe has no one to dance with. And now she declares: “I have another Nikolai!” - and removes the icon of St. Nicholas from the wall.
The girl is dancing, holding the icon in her hands. Friends persuade: “Return the icon to its place!” Zoya exclaims in response: “If there is a God, he will punish me!”
Still from the film "Miracle" (2009) about the case with the petrified Zoya
A few moments - and the incredible happened. The roar and noise completely drowned out the music. A dazzling light flashed, as if lightning flashed, and as if a tornado had passed through the room. In a dazzling column of light, Zoya froze with an icon. The rest did not yet understand what had happened, everything seemed to be returning to its place. Someone smiled tightly. And then it got even scarier. Everyone saw something that cannot be found in words.
Zoya stood like a marble statue. People came up to her and made sure of the impossible: her body became a stone! The guests were blown away by the wind - they left to spread the news of what had happened around the city. Zoya's mother collapsed when she returned from church and she was sent to the hospital for several days. So the girl stood in the room for 128 days and nights. Under the stone, her heart was beating, its beats were heard. Doctors tried to give injections, but the needles of the syringes broke: with the same success one could try to give injections to a marble column.
Many curious people flocked to Zoya's house, others even penetrated into her room. Soon the police appeared and stopped this "pilgrimage". The militiamen kept watch day and night, changing three times during the day. Zoya did not eat, although there were attempts to feed her.
She just couldn't eat. It is hard to imagine what her mother went through, praying all night long. The youngest of the policemen could not stand it: this was considered an especially difficult duty, and the difficult nights left many of them with early gray hair as a memory, because at night the girl screamed. During the day, deathly silence, at night - heartbreaking screams. Gradually, the content of the girl’s requests-cries became clearer, gained stability: “Pray, pray for our sins! The world is perishing in sin! The earth is burning in iniquity!”
So it was for many nights in a row.
“Whoever punished, he will have mercy!” - the highest church rank allegedly answered when he was asked to take part in the fate of Zoya.
The influence of unearthly forces on events was obvious. And neither the mother, nor the compassionate people, nor the priests - no one could return the icon of St. Nicholas to its place: the petrified hands of the girl did not give it to anyone. Only on the feast of the Nativity of Christ did Father Seraphim manage to release the image of St. Nicholas and return it to its place. Before that, he sanctified the whole room.
Metropolitan Nikolai of Moscow came, served a prayer service and comforted them: “We must wait for the great feast of the Resurrection of Christ.” Another significant visit: an old man came to the girl. Where he came from - no one knew and does not know. He asked her: “What, tired of standing?”
The police officers twice refused the old man, did not let him into the apartment. Only on the third occasion, on the eve of the Feast of the Annunciation, was he admitted and uttered these three words. No one heard what Zoya answered, usually silent during the day. But even if she answered him, it would be exactly what he expected to hear... Policemen entered the room to escort him to the exit, but found no one. The old man has disappeared.
On the Easter holiday, Zoya returned to her usual state. Her body was freed from stone shackles, became elastic and soft. She was put to bed.
"Who fed you?" the girl was asked.
“The pigeons fed me,” Zoya answered.
She died on the third day of Easter...
“It would be possible to come up with something more plausible,” I thought after reading and forgot about this story. But she had a sequel. In the spring of 1997, the III International Conference was held in Moscow “Special states of human consciousness. Experimental and theoretical research in parapsychology”.
During the break, I discussed with one of the participants - let's call him Yakov Ivanovich - the report I had just listened to. And Yakov Ivanovich said that in his youth he witnessed a real “miracle” with a negative sign. With the Komsomol propaganda team, he traveled to remote villages of the Northern Urals, conducting anti-religious propaganda.
It was a time when, on the instructions of the then General Secretary Khrushchev, churches were closed everywhere. They, the Komsomol members, had to explain to the "unconscious" that there is no God, and therefore his temples are not needed.
In one of the villages, their leader Mikhail learned that before the closing of the church, the villagers took the icons from it home and that the main one, “prayed”, was taken by an old woman named Alevtina. And now, if someone in the family is seriously ill, everyone goes to her to pray. And it supposedly helps better than any medication.
Naturally, Mikhail could not pass by such "blatant obscurantism." The Komsomol crowd went to the old woman, where he imperiously demanded to hand over to him the “painted board”, embarrassing people. Alevtina persuaded him for a long time not to touch the icon, but the Komsomol "leader" was adamant.
In the end, she gave it away, tearfully begging not to desecrate it, so that trouble would not happen, but to transfer it to the local museum of local lore. The old lady was smart. To calm her down, Mikhail promised to fulfill the request.
However, when in the evening they stoked the stove, and the Komsomol members spent the night in one of the classes of the local small school, their leader brought the icon and declared that he would send it to the fire with his own hand, so as not to mess with the old junk.
Mikhail opened the oven door, took the icon in both hands and already made a movement to throw it, when he suddenly froze, said Yakov Ivanovich. At first we did not understand anything. Someone said: "Quit, what are you waiting for." But he did not answer, continuing to stand in a strange position, as in a child's game with the command: "Freeze!"
The oven door was closed and Mikhail was shaken. And something incomprehensible was happening to him: his eyes were staring, a half smile, half grimace froze on his face. And most importantly, he could not move his arm or leg, neither bend nor unbend. All our efforts came to nothing. Someone suggested taking Mikhail to a freshly heated banya and steaming it properly.
They took it away, somehow undressed, although they could not take off the shirt and T-shirt because of the icon. So they put it on the shelves along with the icon. They splashed a couple of buckets of water into the heater and began to walk around Mikhail with brooms, massage, stretch his muscles. No sense. That's just the icon slipped out of his hands. But no one paid attention to this. In order not to get in the way underfoot, she was pushed under the bench.
Nobody slept that night. And at a little light they wrapped our Mikhail in a sheepskin coat, loaded him into a lorry and took him to the district hospital. What happened to him afterwards, I don't know. Winter holidays are short, and I went to the city. Later, I heard from someone that after a few months Mikhail was sent to some medical institute, since local doctors were powerless to help him.
According to my interlocutor, this was a typical case of remote energy-informational influence. Today, it has been allegedly experimentally established that psychics are able to mentally influence the state of a person. The effects of such therapeutic exposure are recorded and investigated. It is logical to assume that, in principle, it is possible and negative impact. What has long been called "send damage."
Unfortunately, orthodox science does not consider this to be real and does not study such cases. Therefore, there is no reliable data. Yes, and those who can "send damage", of course, keep their gift secret and do not offer to take part in the experiments.
Apparently, the old woman Alevtina was a strong psychic and put Mikhail into a trance when she felt that they were going to burn her icon. We have seen how hypnotists do this more than once: the human body becomes hard, like a log. It is placed with its neck and ankles on the backs of chairs, and it is held in this position for quite a long time.
It was then that I remembered the Samara story. But there was no one there who could play the role of a psychic. This means that the remote energy-information impact was provided from somewhere outside, from another dimension.
- You want to say that God himself acted? But then why didn't he come to the fore every time icons were destroyed, including miraculous ones? Yakov Ivanovich doubted. “After all, such cases during the existence of Christianity cannot be counted. As you wish, but I believe that we are talking about remote extrasensory influence.
And yet, the more I later thought about this phenomenon, the more I realized that the matter was not so simple.
Let's start with mythology. It has such heroines as the sisters Stheno, Euryale and Medusa, known under the nickname Gorgon. Winged, with a body covered with scales, and snakes instead of hair on the head. The youngest, Medusa, died at the hands of Perseus. Moreover, since the gaze of any of the sisters turned all living things into stone, the brave Perseus beheaded Medusa, not looking at her, but using his copper shield as a mirror.
The Bible tells the story of Lot's disobedient wife, who violated the ban - not to look back at the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed by heavenly fire - and turned into a pillar of salt.
In later legends and traditions of different peoples, there are often references to people whom the gods turned into stones and rocks as punishment for specific misconduct. Such "sights" are found in many countries. Moreover, these stones and rocks do not always resemble the outlines and especially the size of people.
Apparently, they were given the names of the victims of observed cases of "petrification" as a warning to posterity. Another thing is important here: now we are increasingly convinced that no matter how fantastic myths, legends, legends may seem, they are based on real facts, only whimsically processed into an artistic form.
Is it even possible to turn a person into stone?
IN full sense words - no, if we mean such rocks as, for example, granite. But there are other minerals, the same limestone or silicon, which are contained in the body. It's all about their concentration. If it turns out to be extremely high, then the person will really seem like a stone.
On the other hand, countless biochemical reactions take place every second in our body, during which one substance is constantly transformed into another. Many people know this from their own sad experience, when the deposition of salts begins and the joints bend with difficulty, that is, in fact, they become petrified. If this happened to the cells of the skin and muscles - and the person will turn into a pillar of salt, like Lot's wife.
Of course, in life, salt deposition proceeds slowly and is the result of metabolic problems, the removal of toxins and other malfunctions. various systems organism. However, immediate noticeable consequences of biochemical reactions are also possible.
Perhaps the most common case is when a person suddenly turns gray after severe stress. But a change in hair pigmentation, in principle, is the same biochemical process of replacing some substances with others! Meanwhile, medicine also knows cases of the instantaneous appearance of cataracts - the transformation of liquid protein in the lens of the eye into a solid one, although the reasons for this are not clear.
So let's sum it up. The body is capable of instant tissue restructuring. The command for this can be given with the help of an energy-information signal from the outside. Although no such examples have been recorded with psychics, it cannot be argued that there cannot be a subject in the Universe who cannot do this.
Who he is - God or the Supreme Mind, we do not know. But the fact that it is present in our world is undeniable. As academician Sakharov once remarked, "there is something outside matter and its laws." And the anger of this higher being can be terrible.
Pavel Gross
ORDER FROM ABOVE: PETER!
At first glance, a person can turn into a stone statue only in fairy tales and myths. But this is only at first glance! Many, for sure, know an absolutely incredible story that happened in the middle of the 20th century in Kuibyshev. Then a girl named Zoya "petrified", and in this state she stood, without leaving her place, for several months.
The reason for this was that during the New Year's party, she allegedly decided to dance with the icon of St. Nicholas. Most likely, she received punishment for such a trick from some higher powers. Both the Church and scientists of various stripes are still racking their brains over the "Zoya syndrome". Unfortunately, at that time, none of the scientists took this event seriously, and did not take any measures in "hot pursuit".
And here is a story about an old priest, whose garden was somehow penetrated by two thieves. Having filled voluminous knapsacks with vegetables and fruits and loaded them on themselves, the uninvited guests were about to set off. However, their feet seemed to be rooted to the ground, and they could not even move.
After standing motionless for two days, the frightened thieves screamed: "Lord, let us go in peace!" Monks came out of the monastery shouting: "Who are you, how did you get here?"
The intruders could only moan: "We have been standing here for two days and two nights and cannot move." The monks went for the elder, who, standing in front of the poor fellows, said: "Not knowing labor, you are idle and rob people! Therefore, continue to stand here in the same idleness!"
The unfortunate begged to forgive them, promising not to take anything from someone else. Then the elder said: "If you begin to work with your hands and feed others with your work, then I will let you go." They swore by oath that they would certainly fulfill his command. Then he, saying: "Work for a year in this monastery for the brethren," and by his prayer freed them from a heavy burden. They did not break their promise - they worked in the skete for a whole year.
"STONE MAN" SYNDROME
Münchmeyer's disease is a complete petrification of the soft tissues of the human body. There are no more than 600 people in the world suffering from this terrible disease. Over time, patients begin to experience terrible pain, which is so strong that it often causes a mental breakdown. But the disease is not curable, and fatal outcome inevitable.
It can affect both adults and children. According to experts in the field of this disease, it is transmitted at the genetic level. The Englishman Robert Kinghorn is already a grown man who either lies or stands on his petrified legs. Moreover, the disease is rapidly progressing, and doctors expect that over time, Robert's body will also begin to turn to stone.
In another case, the first signs of this disease appeared in Ashley Kerpil when she was three years old. But then the doctors mistook it for sarcoma. As a result of this irreparable mistake of surgeons. But the disease developed rapidly, and here and there petrification of soft tissues occurred. Now this is a young 30-year-old woman who, in spite of everything, managed to be married, to communicate with the spiritual leader of the Buddhists of the planet, the Dalai Lama. Now Ashley can no longer fully extend her knees, and the time is not far off when she will be immobilized and will never be able to sit again. An incurable disease has formed a strong character in her. “If I set a goal for myself, then I will definitely achieve it. I don’t know how much I have left to live, and therefore I want to learn and experience as much as possible,” is the motto of this persistent woman.
There is another girl in China who suffers from the same disease. When Ni Ming was 14 years old, doctors discovered that her muscle tissue had become fossilized. According to doctors' forecasts, death is inevitable, and will come when most of the muscles and cartilage turn to stone. Then the girl will simply not be able to breathe.
Harry Eastlack fell ill at the age of 10. Thanks to the efforts of doctors, he reached the age of forty. But by this time, his body was completely petrified except for the lips. Tormented by severe pain, in anticipation of a redemptive death, Harry bequeathed his body for scientific research.
STONE CHILDREN
In the world there is such a disease as LITOPEDIONIA, which means the petrification of the embryo in the mother's womb. Translated from Greek, this term means "stone child". Such a program was created by nature itself in order to avoid the decomposition of the fetus with serious consequences. At the same time, the human body perceives this unknown lifeless body as a foreign object, and creates a kind of protection - turns it into a "stone". And if there is such protection, then women can wear this fruit for quite a long time. The most amazing thing is that in many cases the mother of the unborn child does not experience any discomfort. Sometimes there are even such stories that have a place only in the Guinness Book of Records.
This was first recorded in America in 1200 BC. The fossilized embryo was found in one of the burials. This is very a rare thing but it happens throughout the history of mankind. It is observed in our time - one in 250,000 pregnancies. So, in 1582, in the womb of a 70-year-old woman, there was a petrified embryo, which was ... 28 years old. In other words, this fetus was in the mother's womb for 28 years. Complete research and detailed description This case was made in 1582 by the French doctor Jean d'Haybust.
When an 84-year-old old woman turned to Brazilian doctors with a complaint of pain in the abdominal cavity, they could not even think that the whole reason lies in a very old pregnancy, the consequence of which was a petrified fetus. His "age" was more than four decades. As it turned out, 44 years ago, the woman became pregnant, but did not want to give birth to a child. To terminate the pregnancy, she turned to a local sorceress, who gave her a certain potion to drink. The result of this criminal abortion was probably lithopedionia. Throughout the subsequent time, the woman was firmly convinced that her pregnancy was completely terminated. Everything would be fine, but the thing is that the granny is categorically against the operation to remove the 44-year-old fetus. Apparently, healers for her are more reliable healers than experienced doctors.
Another woman, who died at the age of more than ninety, carried the petrified fetus of her unborn child for sixty years! She was admitted to a Vienna hospital with pneumonia and senile dementia. On the x-ray, the doctors saw a petrified fetus. A week later, the old woman died. As it turned out, the development of the embryo stopped at the thirty-first week.
FIVE FROM THE SKY
But there are also completely inexplicable and incredible cases of petrification of people. On October 13, 1987, scheduled exercises began in the morning in one military air defense unit of the Siberian Military District. And at that moment, a silently flying disk-shaped UFO suddenly appeared in the sky above the test site. Soon it descended and hovered right above the range. A warning volley was fired at the impudent guest, but he did not react to this in any way, and then a Surface-to-Air missile was fired at him. The object crashed to the ground, and the soldiers, who did not even have time to get close to it, saw five humanoid creatures jump out of there. They were all short, with large heads and large slanting eyes.
The soldiers were simply shocked! What happened next, most of all resembles a fantastic action movie. Five mysterious creatures in an instant crowded together and, it would seem, became one. Then this something took on a spherical shape and became a large ball. According to few, but real eyewitnesses, this ball began to buzz, then a strong whistle was heard. Then, turning bright white and emitting a bright light, it exploded. When the light faded, the ball was nowhere to be found. But it turned out that 23 soldiers who were near him were dead. Moreover... they were petrified, but continued to remain in an upright position. Only two soldiers standing at a distance survived.
Both the petrified soldiers and the fragments of the UFO were subsequently taken to one of the research institutes near Moscow. All studies were carried out for behind closed doors", and their results were strictly classified. The scientists' non-speaking conclusions nevertheless became known over time. In their opinion, an unknown energy source changed the structure of the soldiers' body, transforming them into a substance similar to the molecular structure of limestone.
Vladimir Lotokhin
TO THE MAIN
a mental state caused by a person's anxiety about his autonomy, individuality and characterized by a specific form of protection, self-preservation.
The term "petrification" was introduced into scientific literature by R. Laing (1927-1994) to describe the mental state of a person who experiences anxiety due to his ontological insecurity - a feeling of being unreal, inanimate, out of touch with the outside world.
The concept of "petrification" has several meanings, which were summarized by R. Laing in his work "The Split Self" (1960) to the following: special form horror, leading to the petrification of man, turning him into stone; fear of the possibility of becoming or being transformed from a living person into a dead object or thing devoid of subjectivity, into a kind of robot or automaton without personal autonomy of action; a "magical" act whereby one can resort to attempting to turn another person into stone.
Petrification is associated with the depersonalization of a person in a dual way. On the one hand, in an attempt to preserve oneself (preservation of autonomy and individuality) from possible suppression by other people, a person, as it were, turns into stone, thereby protecting himself from pressure from outside. On the other hand, he begins to treat the people around him not as individuals, but as things that do not have free will, denies their autonomy and ignores their feelings. In both cases, depersonalization occurs. A person is afraid of being depersonalized by other people and in turn depersonalizes them, which leads to a state of petrification.
Petrification does not mean the loss of contact with reality and the withdrawal of a person into himself. However, as R. Laing noted, in such a mental state, the elements of the world acquire a different hierarchy of significance for a person than for a healthy person. The world of his own experiences does not disappear, but becomes one that he cannot share with other people.
Thus, the patient can enter into what seems to be a live communication with the analyst. He reacts to his interpretation of dreams and the constructions he proposes. Enters into an argument with the analyst or, on the contrary, agrees with him in everything. He expresses such judgments that seem to indicate his autonomy, independence, liveliness of mind. However, behind the ability to behave in an analytic situation as an autonomous person, in reality, the patient may perceive the analyst not as a living person, but as a kind of computer device that receives information from him, processes it according to a previously entered program and produces a certain result in verbal form. Treating the analyst as a computer device, the patient secretly observes the soulless automaton and, in contrast to him, considers himself a living person, although in reality he turns out to be extremely constricted, closed, petrified. Such a patient cannot maintain an analytic relationship in which two people communicate as individuals. His own experiences do not manifest themselves as a personal relationship to the analyst, but appear in the form of impersonal automatic reactions to the silence or questioning of the analyst, perceived as a computer device.
One of the main contentious issues
between creationists and
evolutionists - how they formed
fossils: gradually, during
million years, or as a result of catastrophes
planetary scale?
Fossils that scientists
found in different parts of the world
represented by a variety of
life forms. These are whole organisms.
frozen in ice, and bones or teeth,
hardened as a result
mineralization, and insects,
trapped in the thickness of amber, and prints
leaves or other parts of plants, bones
and animal tracks, etc. More often
parts of the skeleton are preserved, but sometimes in
fossils turn and more
soft tissues.
The process of petrification appears
mysterious scientists. After all, no one
was able to reproduce it under conditions
laboratories. Evolutionists come from
assumptions that the remains of plants and
animal remains ended up in various
layers of the Earth as a result of long
processes. Geology textbooks usually
the following explanation is given. Process
mineralization occurs as
gradual accumulation of salts in tissues.
Molecules of organic substances,
when washed out, they are replaced by silicon salts.
Examples are usually given
imprints of leaves of plants and feathers of birds,
formed by indentation
objects into soft silt, which is then,
hardened, turned into stone.
Obviously, animals whose corpses
found completely preserved in
blocks of ice, died suddenly.
For a better understanding
fossilization process
let's look at examples. It is known that all
dead living beings today
decompose. A sleeping fish floats up
the surface of the water and begins to gradually
undergo decomposition processes. corpses
animals that died on land, or
eaten by predators or quickly
decompose. Dead plants also
break down in relatively short
periods of time.
How was the process in the past?
fossil formation? Most
the logical explanation is
to which living beings turned out to be
quickly buried as a result
tidal activity, massive
land shifts, as well as eruptions
volcanoes on a global scale.
Important factors in the subsequent
petrification processes were very high
temperature and pressure. Sedimentary layers
were thus formed
gradually over millions of years
could be the result of a cataclysm.
The fossil record is full of examples
confirming this assumption. How
already mentioned above, the accumulations
fossils in different parts of the world
indicate that living organisms
once died suddenly. By developing this
thought, let's look at examples.
Fossilized remains of fish
well-preserved collections
different types of fish
discovered by scientists in many parts
planets. How did the fish end up in those
areas where there is no water today,
like high in the mountains? Geologists
proposed a theory according to which
for millions of years huge masses
sushi gradually fell below the level
sea, as a result of which these areas
were flooded with water. Then
the land rose again. This, it would seem,
confirmed by finds on land of footprints
sea life. Evolutionary geologists
claim that such "burials"
formed in sedimentary rocks
as a result of the processes taking place on
Earth for millions of years.
This explanation leaves no
answer a series of questions. finds
paleontologists say that death
flora and fauna occurred suddenly.
Indeed, research
countless fish fossils
confirms that their death has come
instantly. Such evidence was
found in the Red Sandstone area
(Great Britain). This region is described as
huge graveyard of aquatic organisms,
at the same time, one and the same was found everywhere
same picture of destruction. Deposition
red sandstone covering
an area of approximately 25,000 sq. km,
more than 45 m thick, striking in size
disasters. Moreover, the poses in which
once dead fish froze
(for example, tensely elongated
spines), suggest that the fish
died in convulsions.
A similar picture is observed in
northern Italy. And here the facts speak of
sudden mass death of fish. In layers
lime shale were discovered
thousands of petrified skeletons, and
these skeletons turned out well
preserved and lying close
to each other. There are even prints
remnants of scales, which suggests that
the fish were buried before they were
soft tissue began to decompose.
Rapid burial of bivalves
shellfish
Another example of a quick death
marine organisms - bivalves
shellfish. Their "cemeteries"
found in different parts of the earth.
Moreover, they were found petrified, with
closed sashes. When these shellfish
die, then in a few hours both
shell halves begin
open up. That bivalve
mollusks were closed
sashes, indicates that they
were buried alive. An example is
finds - fossilized mollusks,
found near Holkirk (province
Alberta, Canada). On many of these
molluscs preserved traces
molten rock.
There are other examples that
creatures that once lived in the sea
preserved in molten lava,
poured to the bottom of the ocean. Bible
explains why it happened: when
the fountains of the great deep were opened,
throughout the surface of the earth
volcanic eruptions that
both land and ocean.
Fossilized remains of sharks
The last example of instant
death of marine animals - petrified
Shark remains found in Ohio
(USA). In rocky strata with a thickness of
tens of meters were found remains
sharks of various sizes. It's obvious that
death overtook them in their natural
swimming position - belly down. Weight
silt flattened them to a thickness of 6 mm and
less. How could sharks be in the layer
silt as a result of gradual homogeneous
processes that took place during
million years? Only an event like
to the Flood, about which
the bible tells can explain
us the facts below.
petrified wood and
leaf prints
Pieces of wood turned into
from organic material to stone,
called petrified wood. This
one of the most common
fossils. Moreover, in some
cases, the wood is so well preserved,
that even annual rings can be distinguished,
and on the prints of the leaves - the location
veins and individual cells.
The area where they were found
numerous fossils,
preserved soft tissues of plants and
animals, is Drumheller,
(Province of Alberta, Canada). Strongly
rugged Drumheller surface
formed by layers of volcanic ash and
silt, which are interspersed with small
seams of coal. Evolutionists
consider that these layers are
deposit formed over millions
years. Drumheller is world renowned for
that fossils were found here
dinosaur remains.
In Drumheller were discovered
fossilized remains of marine organisms
- bivalves and oysters, and
also pieces of petrified wood. IN
blocks of magnetic iron ore almost always
you can find some forms
petrified life.
Usually the formation of a magnetic
iron ore is explained by action
gradual process of molecular
migrations. However, studying this
material allows you to detect
excellent leaf prints,
preserved pieces of wood, and
other plant tissues. Yes, on one
from the fragments we examined
iron ore found in Drumheller,
there was a clear imprint of a dragonfly wing.
So the process that provided
the preservation of these smallest structural
parts, could not leak for
long time like this
suggests uniformitarian geology.
Analysis of magnetic iron ore showed that
these rocks were formed as a result
impact high temperatures, but not
molecular migration process.
The biblical model suggests
more logical explanation
what happened. During the World
Flood, when layers of volcanic ash and
silt was deposited under the influence of tidal
waves, pieces of molten
brimstone (“the windows of heaven were opened”, Gen.
7:11). As a result, plants and animals
the remains of which scientists find today,
were captured by this mass and
buried in it.
petrified trees
There are places where they were found
clusters of petrified trees.
The famous Stone Forest in the south
eastern Arizona (USA) is known for
that the largest
petrified trees. The length of their trunks
sometimes reaches more than 60 m. These trees
were found tens of meters from
flood products
volcanic activity. Trunks
tightly pressed together, as it happens
in the rubble.
What happened to these trees?
According to the usual explanation,
millions of years ago, this zone represented
a swampy area
crossed by streams and rivers. As
how the waters of the rivers deposited sediments from
sand, silt and volcanic ash, thousands
logs, animal bones, and parts
plants were under them and with
petrified over time.
This theory does not provide convincing
explanations. Rivers and streams laying
deposits these days do not provide
nor the conditions necessary for the process
fossil formation,
large-scale
destruction like that
happened in the past. Huge masses
volcanic ash deposited in
Stone Forest during floods,
appear to be the result
active volcanic activity,
much more powerful and large-scale than
these days. Probably the reasons
caused mass deaths of giant
trees, should be searched in the global
catastrophes, as the Bible says.
Clusters of giant petrified
trees have also been found in
yellowstone national park
(USA). These trees are covered
eruptive breccia - cemented
clastic rock - and petrified
under this layer. Today there are no such
big trees like they were
fossil ancestors. It is obvious that here too
vegetation died suddenly.
Layered fossils
Another evidence that
the death of trees was fast, are
trunks found sunk more
than one layer. These are the so-called
layered fossils.
An example of such a fossil is
tree found in the coal mine
reservoir in Tennessee (USA). About it
discovery was described in the article “Becomes
Is coal tomorrow's black gold?
published in the August issue
National Geographic magazine in 1975.
The photo shows the trunk of a large
tree, immersed in a narrow
coal seam. tree pass
vertically through a four-meter layer
sandstone. Evolutionary geologists
would explain the formation of coal
formation and layer of sandstone by the action
homogeneous processes, as a result
which these deposits were formed for
millions of years. However, the fact that this
the tree is placed in layers, indicates
that the deposition of these layers occurred
relatively quickly - during this time
the wood has not rotted.
The death of dinosaurs
There are other examples
proving that the cause of death
flora and fauna were a disaster.
For example, dinosaur fossils are often
are found in provisions allowing
assume that the animals overtook
sudden violent death.
Some of them have been found in
flood deposits, their necks and tails
were broken, but the bodies were
located along the water.
Platypus dinosaur corpses
found buried in layers
volcanic ash and silt, and the position
their bodies were naturally floating
animals.
Evolutionists developed
complex theories to explain
why animals that did not live in water
died a violent death there.
There are too many similar examples to
this phenomenon could be attributed to
local disasters. Dinosaurs
found not only in the besieged
flood layers, but also in lumps of magnetic
iron ore, which apparently fell from
sky.
In the article "Dinosaur Bones from
rock", published in
Saskatoon Star newspaper August 26, 1981,
talking about a dinosaur found near
Huxley (Alberta, Canada) at 80-
a ton of magnetic iron ore. In this
the article says:
“In addition to fossilized bones, scientists
found fossilized skin prints
dinosaur, allowing them to judge
the appearance of the animal. They, moreover,
opened and removed a number of petrified
footprints - traces of the last steps
this carnivore made by him before
death."
How could the theory of uniformitarianism
explain the presence of skin and prints
feet in the rock? Logically this
can only be explained by the sudden
animal death and subsequent
petrification of his remains. Scientists-
evolutionists have proposed
numerous hypotheses of causes
extinction of dinosaurs, explaining them
death by the action of some kind of stretched
process time. Some of them
considered the cause of extinction
gradual climate change
conditions, others believe that the cause
this was illness and lack of food.
Theory proposed by Louis
Alvarez suggests that dinosaurs,
like other forms of life, died in
the result of an asteroid collision
comets with the earth. Since geologists
evolutionists believe that dinosaurs
disappeared 65 million years ago, Alvarez
believes that this cataclysm happened
at the same time. Alvarez in his evidence
relied on the fact that in the remains
dinosaur scientists discovered rubidium,
which in high concentrations
present in cosmic bodies.
New Extinction Theory
dinosaurs paved the way for the revision of ideas
uniformitarianism. Many scientists
willing to revise
some of their ideas and evaluating
facts based on an unbiased approach,
come to the conclusion that the earth has undergone
general devastation as a result
massive damage caused by
space forces. It is in full
agree with what the Bible says about
events of the past.
frozen fossils
In the 1940s in the Fairbanks area
(Alaska, USA) under development
gold deposits in the frozen
swamp were excavated up to
one mile. It turned out that the lumps
ice contains a large amount
plants and animals, McGowan, author
book "Primitive Man in the New
Light", on p. 151 so comments
huge accumulations of dead animals:
“Their number is amazing. They are
lie in a frozen, intertwined mass,
littered with uprooted
trees. It appears that they
died, were mutilated
catastrophic circumstances.
Distinguishable skin, ligaments, wool, soft
fabrics."
In the permafrost zone of the North
Siberia and Alaska often find the remains
mammoths. In some places of the bones
there are so many mammoths that they lie thick
layer. In some places, mammoths are frozen into the ice, in
in other places - in sedimentary layers.
The study of the remains of these large
mammals shows that they
were frozen very quickly:
undigested food was preserved in their stomachs
food. Herbs found in the oral cavity
(bells, buttercups). Many corpses
were found in a torn
dissected, frozen in ice.
In addition to mammoths, in Siberia and on
Alaska also met frozen in ice
remains of camels, sheep, rhinos,
bison, horses and lions. This
confirms the picture of the death that befell
millions of animals as a result
disasters.
Nowhere in the world are happening now
events like those
mentioned above. But today the earth layers
discover more and more new millions of remains
animals and plants, often
brought together and form huge
"cemeteries". Evolutionists are not
able to explain this phenomenon
the theory of evolution is based on the concept
uniformitarianism. The above facts
confirm the biblical message
catastrophes on a global scale.
From the book "The Evidence of Creation"
world" Author: J.
S. McLean and others.