Today I sent in the form to allow sales of my book on Amazon.com. I’ll give you the URL for that page, when it’s available.
Now on to the main topic for today. Over the past week I heard of two discoveries from China that were worth adding to “The Genesis Chronicles.” The first is that the world’s largest bed of dinosaur fossils has been found on China’s coast, in Shandong province. I put a paragraph on that in Chapter 1, footnote #3:
The Chinese pulverized the fossils they found and mixed them with dried snakes and tea to make herbal medicines. Roy Chapman Andrews reported that one family in southwest China had made a living digging up this medicinal ingredient from a rich quarry for 700 years, and lamented at the untold number of priceless remains that must have been ground up over the centuries to cure upset stomachs!
In 2008 Chinese paleontologists announced that the world’s largest dinosaur graveyard was at Zhucheng, a city in Shandong province. More than fifty-five tons of fossils had been dug up from there since 1960, and in just one nine-month period (March-December 2008), they unearthed the remains of 7,600 dinosaurs. Since Shandong has been a part of China for at least three thousand years (Lu, the home state of Confucius, was here), my response is that we’re lucky to find the fossils now, in view of what the Chinese used to do to them. See what Chapters 4 and 10 say about fossil formation, for an explanation of how so many dead dinosaurs got to that spot.
From the Guardian: Dinosaur bones find is world’s largest, says China
The second has to do with the discovery of a very strange feature in the western province of Qinghai, the Baigong Pipes formation. Is it made by nature? Is it an out-of-place artifact (oopart) built by extraterrestrials? Or did our antediluvian ancestors build it? I put this in Chapter 9; let’s see what you think:
The western Chinese province of Qinghai is located on the Tibetan plateau, so most of it is a cold desert, with an average elevation nearly two miles above sea level. The province is so remote that it did not become part of China until 1723; for most of history Chinese settlement stopped–along with the Great Wall–in Gansu, the next province to the east. That explains why the outside world did not hear about the Baigong Pipes until 2002, when a group of US scientists, looking for dinosaur fossils in the Qinghai mountains, stumbled upon the site.
Twenty-five miles southeast of Delingha, a city in the heart of Qinghai, is a strange mountain, Mt. Baigong. On top of the mountain is what appears to be an eroded pyramid, 200 feet high. At the mountain’s base are three caves, two of which have collapsed over the ages. The cave that can be entered has a triangular opening, and a 16-inch pipe running along the ceiling. The end of a second pipe comes out of the cave floor, and dozens more such pipes stick out of the face of Mt. Baigong, above the cave. Still more pipe-like features have been spotted on the beach of a nearby lake. An analysis of the pipes by a local smeltery stated they were made mostly of iron, but also contained silicon dioxide, in amounts up to 30 percent–not a common alloy in manmade metals.
The local government is promoting Mt. Baigong as a tourist attraction, but so far a thorough investigation of the site has not yet been performed, by either Chinese or foreign scientists. As you might expect, in the meantime, UFO enthusiasts are promoting them as evidence that aliens once visited earth. Using the theme promoted in this section, I would instead suggest that this was an ancient manmade building; the last surviving base or bunker from a pre-Flood war, perhaps? Meanwhile, some geologists are calling everything at Mt. Baigong a natural formation, because similar hematite “pipes” have been found in the sandstone of Utah and neighboring states. If the Baigong Pipes turn out to have been formed by nature, kindly disregard this oopart.
From Chinaexpat.com: The Baigong Pipes – Nature or OOPart?
