actually a lot of ancient storys of the begining or how we came to be resemble the story of adam and eve, it has to have some kind of truth. twas the aliens oOo: how do u explain the footprints that are fossilized?

Yup, totally agree with you Ninty, I was talking about this a couple nights ago...Most of the bible is just metaphorical....

However, in most religons and ancient cultures, there is always a story of a great flood happening in the past. Could this be Noah?

probably.

I can't. Either we can't date stuff very well, or there was someone or something there there that long ago.

Doesn't necessarialy have to be human, but it also doesn't have to be alien. What about some sort of dinosaur? Can't remember the date form the fossil so I can't compare it to when the dinosaurs were around, but it could have been either an early species, or a desendant . It could have been a water creature, because life started in the sea, and then evolved to land, thins could have been an early attempt at a sea creature to walk on land. etc. I don't know, i'm no expert, just some suggestions.

As for the other things, a lot of them are explainable. The big balls? Whats so special about that. Some guy just had a lot of time on his hands and decided to make some big ass bowling balls.

Thats quite an achievement lol... have you ever tried making a ball of rock lately?

It's the spark plug thing that gets me....The one with the spring system fossilized into rock...

No, but i'm sure I could if I really wanted to.

Hell, I have two big balls O' rock right between my legs!

Now that you mention the spark plug and the round balls - Do you think they had some kind of power tool that would chop into rock? LOL

On a serious matter - I would like to know how they made the balls of rock that smooth. If you just hacked at it with a chisle it would be lumpy as fuck. They didnt have sand paper then - and if they did, it would be almost useless.

Thing won't load for me for some reason.

Does it say how old the rock is?

Sanding of the stone can be done using another rock quite easily.

The sperical shape is harder but can be done using simple math.

The spheres are stone balls made of granite. They vary in size from about the size of an orange to giant balls measuring more than six feet in diameter and weighing 16 tons. All are perfectly round to within two centimeters

Thousands of these balls have been found along river beds and in ancient cemetery sites in the valley of the RÃ*o Térraba, located in the southwest portion of Costa Rica, and on Caño Island, nine miles off the Pacific coast. Some of them were found at locations more than fifty miles from the nearest site from which they could have been quarried. They have not been found anywhere else in the world.

and the fossiles,

[img]http://www.geocities.com/tasosmit2001/Ancientmysteries/hand.jpg[/img]

This fossil which corresponds perfectly to a human handprint shows astounding detail. Even the print of the thumb nail can be seen. It is found in the Glen Rose limestone which is designated as Middle Cretaceous, supposedly 110 million years old and contemporary with the dinosaurs

And about ancient flying er whatever,

Even more controversial than the model airplane are the enigmatic carvings found in the temple of Abydos, Egypt by Dr. Ruth Hover. Hover photographed a wall panel which had been revealed when a newer overlaying panel crumbled and fell off. The older panel beneath contained embossed images that resemble modern aircraft as seen in profile.

http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/ ... %5Fnf.html

and who really discovered "the new world"
http://paranormal.about.com/library/wee ... 80700a.htm

Hmmm, the only explanation i can give to that is that The Great Flood washed away many people and only few survived - washing technology away with it.