A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday

T R Ybarra

The Case of S T Nikos

Where are their Ruins?

I could not believe that modern day palaeontologists had failed to notice the remains of the Anthroposaurs� ships, and aeroplanes and factories and housing estates, and so on in the rocks, if indeed the dinosaurs had reached intelligence. In my next letter to Nikos I wrote: "If intelligent dinosaurs existed, they must have made a big impression on their world, just as we have. Where then are their ruins, their relics and their kitchen middens?"

His reply duly came, with an answer to my question of where the ruins of the Other Ones were. "What could we know of an intelligent race of beings that briefly inhabited the world 65 million years ago? If creatures are sufficiently intelligent they must discover ways of changing their world, but none of our experts admit to any signs of such changes in Cretaceous times. Yet such a race did inhabit the earth, it evolved to a similar level of technology to our own and, as we threaten to do, it destroyed itself in selfish and thoughtless excesses that carried into oblivion the last of its own and many other species of the day, including every other remaining dinosaur.

"Can a major civilisation vanish with hardly a trace? Consider the following. Out of an estimated 80 million species of living organisms on the earth today how many will be classified before they become extinct? How many will leave any fossil remains? How many of the millions of insect species? How many of the 8600 bird species? Of the 4000 mammal species? Hardly any! Out of about 12 billion human people that have ever lived on the earth, how many have left any mark? What remains of their accumulated experience? Most living things, intelligent or otherwise do not leave a trace. Species that are constructed mainly of soft tissues, which decay quickly, effectively leave no fossils. Species that live in environments unconducive to fossilisation leave few fossils. Species that evolve and die off quickly leave few remains. Technological civilisation only began two hundred years ago and might end in the next hundred. Human civilisation, hugely impressive to us, is only an oily smear in the geological record.

"In the millions of years that the dinosaurs dominated the earth, thousands of dinosaur species, billions of individuals, have left no trace. If just one of those species came to prominence very rapidly in evolutionary terms, as mankind has, perhaps making no significant mark until its last few centuries, would much be seen in the rocks 65 million years later? I think not, even if anyone were looking for signs of intelligence. And who’s looking? Not the paleontologists!

"Dinosaurs are not just one species like man but a vast group of creatures which lived for millions of years�the modern equivalent is the whole of the mammals. Like the mammals only one dinosaur was likely to achieve intelligence. Just as remains of the intelligent mammal are scarce, one can expect the remains of the intelligent dinosaur to be scarce. It has been said that the chances of finding fossils of an evolutionary variation that lasts only a few tens of thousands of years are small.

"It has also been pointed out that we are builders in wood and metal. Our most majestic stone buildings are little more than facades supported by thin tendons of steel. In a thousand years, even without flood, fire or nuclear warfare, our major cities would be little more than rubble. But if we were to enter another ice age and enormous glaciers should creep down from the north, as they have several times in the past million years, everything in their inexorable path would be pulverised.

"And that is a fraction of the time that has elapsed since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In that time more than 60,000 feet of deposits would have been laid over our fallen cities. Without the continual folding of the earth the remnants of our civilisation would be ten miles under the surface of the earth. But folding and erosion can expose these ancient rocks. They are then weathered and eroded anew. Even the most substantial of our engineering efforts like the Panama Canal might well have been worn away and redeposited as sediments several times in that time scale. Much of our works would have disappeared entirely, subducted under the fringes of continents by movement of crustal plates to be recrystallized millennia hence as new igneous rocks. It is not surprising therefore that only the most vestigial traces of the Anthroposaurs remain today�and they may be deep in undisturbed strata. They might also be severely distorted, oxidised or mineralised, and might not be recognisable for what they originally were. Velikovsky wrote, �prior civilisations are buried so deeply within the lower strata of the earth that we simply do not have any archaeological evidence of their existence.�

"Yet traces of the very substance of dinosaurs’ bodies have been found. Carbon dust is found with some fossil dinosaur finds�the remains of the soft tissues, the skin, flesh and blood vessels. One wonders whether among it are any undecomposed molecules of the original protein or even DNA. Will we soon isolate DNA from the remains of dinosaurs to enable us to decide how advanced they were and even regenerate the creatures by gene culture? We might, but, meanwhile, such evidence as there is must be gleaned by raking through ancient rubble. But no one has been looking for traces of civilisation in ancient rocks. Why should they? Convention tells them that only mankind is intelligent!

"Nevertheless some distinctly anachronistic findings have been reported. Objects found where they shouldn�t be, boulders miles away from their parent rocks or fossils embedded in solid rock, or in apparently undisturbed strata, are called erratics. Unless they have an obvious explanation, such as glacial transportation or burial, they are put away unlabelled in the cellars of museums. There are many thousands of them waiting to be rediscovered. Some of them are clues to the civilisation of the dinosaurs."

Michaela Magi Griffiths, Bloomsbury, September, 1993
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