While walk along Red Creek , London , Texas in June 1936 , Emma Zadie Hahn and her husband Max Edmond Hahn made an strange discovery : a slice of wood poke out of what appeared to be an ancient rock-and-roll formation .
Thestory goesthat ten - ish years later , their son , who was clearly deliver with the merest hint of curiosity that they miss , break launch the rock to see what was privileged . What he found was a hammer . Where it gets weirder is that it wasclearly a modern(ish ) mallet .
The hammer attracted the unhelpful attention of Young Earth Creationist Carl Baugh , who claim that the rock around the hammer was from theCretaceous period . This would mean that whoever leave out the hammer of nineteenth century aim did so while ( e.g. ) running away from a triceratops .
For Baugh , who was himself incorrect , this was evidence thatevolutiontheory was incorrect .
“ If the artifact is really from the Cretaceous clock time skeleton , where does this leave evolutionary hypothesis , since human beings was not suppose to have evolved for another 100 - million years or so?“Baugh ask . " If the artifact is relatively recent , that intend that the Cretaceous Hensell Sand formation from which it came is comparatively young … Again , where does that leave evolutionary hypothesis with its traditional dates for the Cretaceous formations ? ” "
The answer , of course , was that the hammerwasmodern , but it had become encased in the rock by geological process not know to Baugh .
" The Harlan Stone is real , and it await telling to someone unfamiliar with geological process . How could a modernistic artefact be stuck in Ordovician rock-and-roll ? " investigator Glen J. Kuban asked in a 1997 paper on the power hammer , published in Paleo .
" The answer is that the densification itself is not Ordovician . mineral in result can harden around an intrusive object drop in a crack or merely left on the ground if the informant rock ( in this character , reportedly Ordovician ) is chemically soluble . "
While an extremely coolheaded find , the rock and roll formation is not as ancient as it appeared . in all probability a mineworker strike down the hammer a century ago , or perhaps a touch sensation in the first place , after which the sway formed around it . It was not , repeat , not , proof ofThe Flintstones .
