Want to Live Close to Giant Dragonflies? Nah, Me Neither

Want to Live Close to Giant Dragonflies? Nah, Me Neither · Acknowledgement to Jerome Cohen for Previous · Creswell Crag and Bolsover

So, there were Giant Dragonflies technically known as Meganeura.*

Fossils of Meganeura were first discovered in Late Carboniferous (Stephanian) Coal Measures of Commentry, France in 1880. In 1885, French paleontologist Charles Brongniart described and named the fossil "Meganeura" (large-nerved), which refers to the network of veins on the insect's wings. Another fine fossil specimen was found in 1979 at Bolsover in Derbyshire. The holotype is housed in the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Despite being the iconic "giant dragonfly", fossils of Meganeura are poorly preserved in comparison to other meganeurids.

Young Earth Creationism doesn't make predictions ... oh yes, I do.

The Meganeura was arguably pre-Flood. That would be one kind of aberration that God would want to wipe out.

So, pre-Flood men would probably not be living too close to the Coal Measures of Commentry or to the specimen from Bolsover.

Now, I did check. It seems the closest pre-historic human habitation (or comparable) to the Coal Measures of Commentry would be, at a distance of 86 km, the Grotte des Fées at Châtelperron.

And the thing is, for one, the date of 35000 BC is what I would count as a post-Flood age, if carbon dates, for another, I couldn't find out it was carbon dated, for a third, it could arguably have been classified as Neanderthal site because of the tools.

Alternative hypothesis to Neanderthals (which I consider pre-Flood) is, some post-Flood people were doing Neanderthal style tools or disposing of tools made before the Flood by Neanderthals. According to my calculations, if 35 000 Bc were a carbon date (like of a twig or animal of prey), this would be some ten years after the Flood.

2957 B. Chr.**

0.012788 pmC/100, so dated as 38 957 B. Chr.

2935 B. Chr.

0.039541 pmC/100, so dated as 29 635 B. Chr.

or

2957 BC

1.2788 pmC, so dated as 38 957 BC

2935 BC

3.9541 pmC, so dated as 29 635 BC

My own new tables of course basically gives a few carbon millennia as the decades after the Flood in which we don't expect to see any grown dead people./HGL

* Citing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura
** Citing:
Creation vs. Evolution : New Tables
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-tables.html