How old is coal? Evolutionists usually suggest around 300 million years old.

How old is man? Evolutionists usually suggest around 6-7 million years old.

How old is the discovery of iron? Historians suggest around 5000 years old.

So, what if a man claimed to find a large lump of coal with an iron pot inside?

Answer 1: He is a liar.

Answer 2: It would disprove the standard theory that it takes 300 million years to form coal.

Answer 3: It would mean that the coal had been contaminated or tampered with in some way, for clearly man-made objects can’t be found inside naturally-formed, previously-undisturbed formations of coal.

Have you ever heard the story of Frank J. Kennard? In 1912 Frank found an iron pot inside a large lump of coal. Ever since its been a point of contention between evolutionists and folks like myself (whom evolutionists love to label as “pseudo-scientists”) who see Frank’s find as strong evidence that coal does not require millions of years to form and that a global flood can easily explain the discovery of that pot inside that lump of coal.

But let’s hear directly from Frank himself in his notarized statement about the find:

“While I was working in the Municipal Electric Plant in Thomas, Oklahoma in 1912, I came upon a solid chunk of coal which was too large to use. I broke it with a sledge hammer. This iron pot fell from the center, leaving the impression, or mould of the pot in a piece of the coal. Jim Stull (an employee of the company) witnessed the breaking of the coal, and saw the pot fall out. I traced the source of the coal, and found that it came from the Wilburton, Oklahoma Mines.

Frank J. Kennard

Sworn to before me, in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, this 27th day of November, 1948.

Julia L. Eldred N.P.

My commission expires May 21, 1951 – Benton Co.”

What might we conclude after reading this document, assuming no theoretical contamination of Frank’s coal?

1. Frank is a liar (if you’re related to Frank, please forgive my slight);

2. Men lived at least 300 million years ago, before the formation of Frank’s chunk of coal, thus upending the conventional evolutionary dating of both men and iron; or

3. The evolutionary dating of Frank’s coal is wrong, for it can be no older than the discovery of iron, approximately five thousand years ago.

Google confirms that man-made objects (in addition to Frank’s pot) have been found inside lumps of coal, so this story is not a one and done.

God confirms that a worldwide Flood destroyed the earth during the time of Noah, which buried massive amounts of organic material and created necessary conditions for a much more recent formation of coal. Men lived before coal.

–Daniel McCabe