1. THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT MAN
RANDY HROZIENCIK
2016 INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES CONFERENCE
YORK COLLEGE

2. RANDY HROZIENCIK Galesburg, Illinois Radiation Therapist
ARS Certificate Christian Apologetics
Ministry Leader Adult Education
Classes: Bible, Origins, World Religions, Theology, Apologetics

3. OVERVIEW
How megalithic ruins can be used as an apologetic for the creation of intelligent mankind. Megas + Lithos = “Great Stones” How three different worldviews attempt to explain the megalithic ruins. Questions & Comments

4. YOUNG-EARTH CREATIONISM, OLD-EARTH CREATIONISM, & MEGALITHIC RUINS
Only YEC’S Seem To Be Discussing -Problem With Dating (Flood 2348 BC-AIG) OEC’S Generally Not Discussing -No Problem With Dating

5. GREAT PYRAMID CAIRO, EGYPT

6. GREAT PYRAMID
Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World 13 Acres – 5 City Blocks 455’ Tall 2,500,000 Stones Tons Each Passageways & Chambers Only Pre-Flood Structure

7. DATING THE GREAT PYRAMID
Egyptology: Built 2560 BC (4th Dynasty) Josephus: Built By Seth (JA I,2,3) Robert Schoch: Built ,000 BC

8. TRILITHON STONES BAALBEK, LEBANON

9. TRILITHON STONES
3 Stones Forming Base Of Jupiter Baal Temple - >750 Tons Each (Pre-Roman) “Stone Of The Pregnant Woman” – 1,200 Tons (Largest Hewn Stone Known)

10. GOBEKLI TEPE SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY

11. GOBEKLI TEPE
Built 10,000 BC (One Of Oldest Sites) Predates Great Pyramid & Stonehenge 7,000-8,000 Years (?) Prior To 1995 Believed A Medieval Era Cemetery 20 Known Temples - 2 Stone Pillars Per Temple, 9-18’ Length & Tons Each Intricately-Carved Statues & Pictographs Supposed Hunting-Gathering Culture

12. STONEHENGE SOUTHERN ENGLAND

13. STONEHENGE
Built BC Sacred Area Long Before Stonehenge Largest Stones (Sarsens) - 30’ Length, 25 Tons Each, Quarried 20 Miles Away Smaller Stones (Bluestones) - 4 Tons Maximum, Quarried 140 Miles Away

14. TEMPLES OF MALTA ISLAND OF MALTA

15. TEMPLES OF MALTA
Built BC - Paul Likely Saw 50 Temples,11 Megalithic A Stone From Hagar Qim Complex 22’ Length, 20 Tons Rear Wall From The Temple Of The Giants - 18’ Length, Ton Stones

16. TEMPLES OF MALTA: ASTRONOMICAL DESIGN
“As the sun crests the horizon on the spring and autumn equinoxes, 21 March and 21 September, its rays exactly bisect the huge Trilithon entrance to Mnajdra’s Lower Temple, projecting a spot of light into a small shrine in the deepest recesses of the megalithic complex.”
Graham Hancock
The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

17. TEMPLES OF MALTA: ASTRONOMICAL DESIGN
“This alignment of the sun’s rays into the shrine has only been perfect twice in the history of mankind: 3700 BC and 10,205 BC.”
Neolithic Temples of Malta
sacredsites.com/europe/malta/temples_malta.html

18. PUMA PUNKU TIWANAKU, BOLIVIA

19. PUMA PUNKU
Andes Mountains - 12,800’ (Well Above Tree Line) Stones Up To 26’ Length, >100 Tons Quarried 60 Miles Away Perfect Right Angles, Smooth As Glass Neil Steede, Early Sites Research Society - Built 15,000 BC (Oldest Megalithic Site?) Various Others - Built 12,000 BC

20. SACSAYHUAMAN CUSCO, PERU

21. SACSAYHUAMAN
“The largest stone blocks at Sacsayhuaman (28’ high), are estimated to weigh over 120 tons, while more enthusiastic estimates place the largest stones at tons. So precise was the masonry that one block on the outer walls has faces cut to fit perfectly with 12 other blocks. Other blocks were cut with as many as 36 sides. All the blocks were fitted together so precisely that a thickness gauge could not be inserted between them.” Sacsayhuaman ancient-wisdom.com/perusacsahuaman.htm

22. WESTERN STONE TEMPLE MOUNT, JERUSALEM
Western Wall Rabbi Tunnels 44’ Length 570 Tons Herod The Great

23. ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM COAST OF GREECE
Considered A Complex Mechanical “Computer” To Track The Cycles Of The Solar System 2nd Century BC – Greek Or Babylonian

24. ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
“The shoebox-size device has a complex gearwheel system of 30 intricate bronze gear wheels used to run a system that displayed the date, positions of the sun and moon, lunar phases, a 19-year calendar and a 223-month eclipse prediction dial. This makes it an analog computer of great complexity.”
Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient Celestial Calculator
livescience.com/54782-antikythera-mechanism.html

25. HOW DIFFERENT WORLDVIEWS EXPLAIN ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY

26. NATURALISTIC WORLDVIEW
The origin and development of mankind is attributed to chance, random processes of nature (unguided evolution); no divine intelligence involved. Further Back: More Primitive Less Intelligent Great Mystery

27. ANCIENT ALIEN WORLDVIEW
Aliens “jump-started” human evolution by “tweaking” the DNA of already-existing hominids (Creators of Homo Sapiens). Erich Von Daniken Built Megaliths Gave Us Technology Basis Of Mythology

28. GENESIS-CREATION WORLDVIEW
Mankind Created Intelligent (Genesis 1:27) No Problem Explaining The Megalithic Ruins

29. APOLOGETICS POINT #1: ANCIENT MAN WAS INTELLIGENT
Mankind Was Created Intelligent

30. ANTHROPOLOGIC “GREAT LEAP FORWARD”
Sudden emergence of “modern” Homo sapiens 40,000-50,000 years ago. Created Music & Art Buried Dead Believed In Afterlife Contemplated God

31. APOLOGETICS POINT #2: ALIEN CONTACT IS QUESTIONABLE
Incredible Distances Hazardous Travel Failure Of SETI

32. THE “GREAT OMISSION” OF THE HISTORY CHANNEL

33. CONCLUSIONS
The megaliths required intelligence and engineering capability – exactly as early Genesis man is described (Genesis 1:27; 4:19-22). Naturalistic Worldview - Fails Ancient Alien Worldview - Speculation Genesis-Creation Worldview – Satisfactory Answers

34. THE END

35. QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

36. RESOURCES
Origin Of Man (YEC) Lubenow – Bones Of Contention Origin Of Man (OEC) Rana & Ross – Who Was Adam? Ancient Skill & Technology (YEC) Chittick – Puzzle Of Ancient Man Ancient Skill & Technology (OEC) Noorbergen – Secrets Of The Lost Races

37. GREAT PYRAMID IN THE BIBLE?
“In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord, and it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of Hosts.” ISAIAH 19:19-20

38. HOW DOES THE NATURALISTIC WORLDVIEW EXPLAIN THE MEGALITHIC RUINS?
Complete Mystery: Megalithic Structures Are Too Advanced In Design & Size For Ancient People To Have Constructed

39. HISTORY OF ANCIENT ALIEN WORLDVIEW
Mid-Fifties Erich Von Daniken Zechariah Sitchin “Ancient Aliens”

40. DNA: A COMPLEX CODE BEYOND CHANCE ORIGINS
“DNA has enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.”
Richard Dawkins

41. FRANCIS CRICK: SWAYED BY “ANCIENT ALIENS”
Francis Crick ( ) DNA Molecule (1953) Nobel Prize (1962) Resigned From Churchill College, Cambridge University (1960) Alien Creators

42. J. Allen Hynek, Originally A Skeptic
WHAT ABOUT UFO’S?
95% - Naturalistic Or Hoaxes
“UFO’s are real, non-physical beings of great intelligence, who are bent on the destruction of mankind.”
J. Allen Hynek, Originally A Skeptic

43. HOW DOES THE ANCIENT ALIEN WORLDVIEW EXPLAIN THE MEGALITHIC RUINS?
Since Ancient People Were Too Primitive To Construct Megalithic Structures, They Needed Help “From Beyond”

44. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS CLASS
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates, The Apology
“All people by nature desire to know.”
Aristotle, Metaphysics
“And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Jesus, John 8:32