America's Stonehenge - A New Theory

The America's Stonehenge archaeological site is located on the summit of Mystery Hill in North Salem, NH. It consists of enigmatic stone chambers, standing stones, niches, drains, and astronomical alignments. Who built these stone structures and for what purpose?

The professional archaeological community has long argued that the site was built by an eccentric farmer who built his house on the hill between 1825 and 1850. Other researchers have proposed that the site was built by Irish Monks. Both of these theories, although quite popular, have been disproven by the archaeological evidence. Stone tools used to quarry the bedrock and shape stones for the some of the earliest structures were C-14 dated to 3000 years ago. This means the site began construction well before Irish Monk starting building religious communities, and certainly predates any 19th century farmers by over three thousand years. Who else could have built this site?

Archaeology has discovered two groups of artifacts and other evidence at the site. The first group of artifacts dates from the 1800's though the early 1900's. All this evidence is associated with the Pattee homestead on the site (circa 1825-1850) and later picnickers from the early 1900's. The second group of artifacts and other evidence spans from 3000 years ago through the 1600's. All of this evidence is associated with Native American activity on the site. It consists of various stone tools used for quarrying, shards of Native American pottery made and used on the site, petroglyphs (rock carvings), pecked & abraded grooved drains, and other Native American artifacts. The evidence overwhelmingly points in one direction - the site was built by Native Americans.

What was the purpose of these stone structures? Like all cultures worldwide, the Native Americans had their own religious traditions. These religious beliefs involved holding ceremonies with various spirits. They created astronomical alignments to mark the date that a ceremony was to be held and also as a means to call the Sun Spirit into their ceremonies. They carved drains in the bedrock to pour sacred water into during ceremonies. They built stone chambers to hold other important ceremonies.

The theory that America's Stonehenge was built by Native Americans is based upon an exhaustive four year study of the site. This study is carefully documented in the book America's Stonehenge Deciphered.

Not sure what theory to believe? Then take a tour of the site and see for yourself. America's Stonehenge is open year round to visitors (admission fee is charged). For an in depth self-guided tour of the site based upon this new research checkout A Guide to America's Stonehenge pamphlet ($4.95) before your trip. Can't travel to the site in person? Take a tour of the site with a 40 minute documentary film, America's Stonehenge: The History of a Sacred Place.

Mary Gage and James Gage (mother & son research team) are co-authors of several books on stone quarrying, historic carved stones, America's Stonehenge, and Native American stone structures in Northeastern United States.

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The Spiny Tailed Iguana

There is relatively little known about the mysterious spiny tailed iguana and only a handful of subspecies. They are generally located in the Yucatan Peninsula through to Panama however their presence is largely located in Mexico. The spiny tailed iguana that thrives on the Atlantic coast there can typically grow up to 24-34 inches in length and are often mistaken for an alligator when they are spotted in Florida. They love to lay and soak up the sun and are often found around heat retaining objects such as stones and brick walls.

Spiny Tailed Iguana Traits

The most noticeable difference between the spiny tailed iguana and its close relative the green iguana is that the spiny tailed iguanas are very aggressive and dont do well in captivity. They rarely ever become tame and continue to act aggressive towards the owners and other people as well. It is hostile and angry in a way and is best left to thrive in its natural environment as this just doesnt make a good pet as the owner is always feeling like an inferior pet owner and the spiny tailed iguana is in distress because of its captivity.

The spiny tailed iguana has a few distinct traits such as the tail being ringed with very specialized spiny scales that run the length of the tail. Most of the iguana relatives have a dorsal crest that are very short generally however the spiny tailed iguana has a very long dorsal crest.

Captivity

If you already own a spiny tailed iguana and you have to house it, there are a few considerations to know before setting up its home. In general the spiny tailed iguana prefers a woody habitat and it is imperative to remember that the spiny tailed iguana thrives on digging and you should provide him with the material to suit it. Pine and aspen shaving and even some bark litters that you can buy for reptiles are not suitable for the spiny tailed iguana so be sure to steer clear of those. Alfalfa is a wonderful product to use to provide your iguana with digging material. Always make certain that your spiny tailed iguana has a fresh bowl of water at all times and it is sometimes suggested for this specific type of iguana that you allow ice cubes to melt over an enclosure into the water bowl.

If you want to learn more about Green Iguana please visit our site which is free to the public. You'll find the best tips on everything to do with Iguana Care

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North American Reptile Breeder's Conference & Trade Show 2007

Yesterday I attended the North American Reptile Breeder's Conference & Trade Show 2007. So I wanted to write a little review of the event to help my fellow reptile lovers out there decide whether or not to attend the show in their area. Overall the show was great but their were a few things that I was disappointed with.

The venue was the Anaheim Convention Center, Near Disneyland. This place is beautiful, maybe that was one of the reasons the admission was so expensive. It was $15, but after paying $10 dollars to park I barely had any money to spend in the actual show.

The vendors were great. I found amazing deals on all sorts of reptiles and supplies. I purchased a juvenile crested gecko from Switzer's Reptiles for $40, 3 more baby crested geckos from another vendor for $35 each, 2 leopard gecko for $15 each, and some calcium supplement for a great price. My brother purchased 2 young sand boas for $45 each. We were blown away by the wide variety of healthy reptiles and inexpensive supplies. We even saw another visitor with a two headed bearded dragon. It was the strangest thing we had ever seen.

The food at the venue was reasonably prices. But the event had no real over site or organization. I could be difficult to find a particular vendor.

Overall I would give the North American Reptile Breeder's Conference & Trade Show 2007 a 8 out of 10.I do hope in the future the organizers consider lower admission prices. I think this will encourage more purchases from their vendors and maybe open the event to lower income folks.

HealthyReptiles.com has more reptile info and articles.

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Evolution's Embarrassing Moments

Austin H. Clark (1880-1954) was a respected Darwinian evolutionist on staff at the Smithsonian Institution. He was the Carl Sagan of his generation, arguably the most respected evolutionist of his time. He was a prolific writer who wrote articles and books in five languages. He was a staunch and articulate defender of evolution yet concealed the fact that he could not find evidence for the theory that truly convinced him. Finally in 1930 He published his book "The New Evolution: Zoogenesis" in which he attacked Darwinism and demolished the theory, citing fact after fact from the fossil record.

He proposed a new theory of life origins called "Zoogenesis" which claimed that plants and animals emerged fully formed from dirt and water! The theory was absurd on its face and roundly rejected by embarrassed evolutionists.

Quickly following this bizarre episode entered a prominent man of science in the budding field of genetics. His name was Richard Goldschmidt (1878 - 1958). He proposed the now familiar theory that the mechanism of evolutionary change was genetic mutations.

He then embarked on a series of cruel experiments on gypsy moths that today's animal rights people would find gruesomely objectionable. For 25 years he kept hordes of gypsy moths and bred them over thousands of generations to shower them with x-rays and mutagenic chemicals.

Goldschmidt expected to cause mutations to form new species but instead got only deformities. Apparently he wisely concluded that genetic mutations were no mechanism for evolution. This, by the way, has been confirmed by recent advances in genetics that show that mutations are virtually always destructive errors that scramble or delete genetic information.
He viciously attacked Darwinian gradualism in his 1940 book "The Material Basis for Evolution." He proposed a new mechanism called the "Hopeful Monster Mechanism" which alleges that evolution occurred in great leaps such as a lizard lays an egg and out hatches a bird! This too was an embarrassment to the evolutionists.

The next thirty years were a time of turmoil in evolution circles. The discovery of DNA in the early fifties by Crick and Watson showed the almost unfathomable complexity and precision of the chemical blueprints of life. Each life form is locked into its own DNA coding pattern in which even a small mutation can bring a deformity or even fatal results. Evolution should have died right there and been banished from our textbooks.

We often regard Ph. D. scientists as unbiased, cerebral, methodical seekers of truth who go where the facts take them but they too have their presuppositions and prejudices. Men of science clung to Darwinism which by then was institutionalized and unquestioned.

It should be apparent to any unbiased observer that evolution is not science in the pure sense because it deals with non repeatable events that occurred in the distant past. Evolution is a theory of the outworking of biology over vast ages of history. Biology is science but evolution is a theory of natural history. We all know that history is art, not science. History is the art of the storyteller. For generations evolutionists have told stories based on the limited evidence of fragments of bone.

In recent years genetics and microbiology have discovered the unfathomable complexity of life and the impossibility of it forming by randomness. Genetics in particular has shown that evolution has no mechanism.

The next major evolution storyteller was Harvard professor Stephen J. Gould (1941-2002) of our own time and recent memory. He was perhaps the greatest champion of evolution of the twentieth century. He was an affable and friendly sort of guy who wrote books promoting evolution to the masses.

He was a smiley faced propagandist for atheistic materialistic evolution. He also had the honesty to face the flaws of Darwinian gradualism. He, like Clark and Goldschmidt before him, attacked Darwinism and even went so far as to say that evolutionists lost every debate they ever had with creationists.

Gould's frank admission that the fossil record lacks transitional forms caused him to reject gradualism. His attacks on evolution were so articulate that creationists frequently quote him. Gould went on to revisit Goldschmidt's Hopeful Monster theory and dress it up with new insights.

His new theory was called "Punctuated Equilibrium" which claimed, like Goldschmidt, that evolution occurred in leaps rather than Darwinian gradualism. However, Punctuated Equilibrium still does nothing to surmount the hyper-improbability that just the right mutations would add just the right thousands of base pairs all properly sequenced to make the evolutionary leaps required. Gould's work underscored the fact that evolution with its storytelling and speculation is art and not science.

Gould, like Carl Sagan, died of cancer before reaching three score and ten years. I can only hope that in their final lucid moments Gould and Sagan reflected on the errors of atheistic materialism and turned to Christ to receive forgiveness of sins.

Bill Nugent, a defender of the Christian faith, has written many articles on Christianity, philosophy and science. He has also written books that give Bible based teaching on sanctification and that caution against the error of legalism.

His books are available at his ministry website http://www.gracelawandsonship.com.

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Rainforest Plants - Carqueja

Family:Asteraceae

Genus: Baccharis

Species: genistelloides

Common names: Carqueja, bacanta, bacrida, cacaia-amarga, cacalia amara, caclia-amarga

General Description: Similar to milk thistle, Carqueja is one of the best known and most widely used herbal medicines in Brazil and most of South America. Carqueja is a shruby perennial that grows in many terrains. It reaches heights of six feet and bears yellowish-white flowers on its crown; they appear in April and May. Carqueja is a succulent with tall three-sided stalks; thin white hairs, similar to many others in the 'cactus' family, grow from the sides of the stalks.

Location: Carqueja is a rainforest herb found throughout the Amazon, including Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. In addition, although less abundant, it is also found in the tropics of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Uses: Carqueja is used in weight loss programs in Brazil, and is usually harvested in the summer. Carqueja is known by several botanical names, including Baccharis genistelloides, Baccharis triptera, and Baccharis trimera.

Carqueja is another rainforest plant that is used by herbalists. It is used to treat dyspepsia, gastroenteritis, liver diseases, diarrhea, as a gastro-intestinal tonic, and to purge the liver and gallbladder. Carqueja is used for liver dysfunctions of all kinds, including removing obstructions in the liver. Carqueja is considered highly effective for a variety of physical ailments because of its liver protecting properties. It is also a good blood cleanser and fever reducer. It is used to treat anemia and blood loss, being recognized for its blood-fortifying properties. It may also be used as a seasoning in many South American dishes.

Carqueja grows abundantly in the rainforest and is a product of the interaction between humankind and the environment. Carqueja is a spontaneous plant and is claimed to be generally good for healthy living.

Disclaimer: The statements contained herein have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Any reference to medicinal use is not intended to treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease.

Tony Mandarich

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