TikTok’s resident Noah’s Ark truther John Adolfi of @lostworldmuseum believes everything we know about history is wrong. 


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“I’m gonna show you three artifacts that seem to defy evolution,” he said, before detailing a replica of an iron pot embedded into several chunks of coal, a hammer set into rocks and a fossilized finger. “Apes, aliens or Adam, where did we come from, friends?” he asked.


Despite his confidence and viral push, one question remains – does this mysterious trio really defy the theory of evolution? Is everything those so-called “scientists” claim to be a lie? Was our midwestern Q-Anon-touting aunt right all along?



The answer, it seems, is a resounding “no.”


Though the eBaum’s World Editorial team was not able to independently find any remotely credible, non-creationist sources proving the existence – and timeline-shifting implications – of the alleged iron pot in coal or the fossilized finger, the London Hammer is the most plausibly “real” artifact, one boasting several possible explanations ... at least based on the handful of non-mainstream outlets covering its existence.


The object’s highly-contested existence dates back to the mid-1930’s, when couple Max and Emma Hahn purportedly stumbled across a rock boasting a strange wooden embed while hiking near London, Texas, per IFL Science. More than a decade after bringing the eye-catching formation home from their fateful day out, their son allegedly broke open the stone, uncovering the hammer. 



In 1983, young Earth creationist Carl Baugh reportedly bought the item, citing it as proof of creationism, yet a handful of others were skeptical, convinced that despite Baugh’s assertions, there had to be another explanation for the famously dubious object.


“The stone is real, and it looks impressive to someone unfamiliar with geological processes,” archeology enthusiast Glen Kuban wrote in a 1999 blog post.



“How could a modern artifact be stuck in Ordovician rock? The answer is that the concretion itself is not Ordovician,” he elaborated. “Minerals in solution can harden around an intrusive object dropped in a crack or simply left on the ground if the source rock (in this case, reportedly Ordovician) is chemically soluble.”


So take it from Baugh: Just because it looks like a hammer and functions like a hammer doesn’t mean humans and dinosaurs co-existed.