Hammer found in Cretaceous layer

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Why would they take a head made of their supermetal, and then jam it onto a crude wooden handle?

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You forget that wood made great handles until the Fall^TM, after which mutations made wood into a less than perfect tool making material.But in all seriousness, Percy has hit the nail on the head. In all research your findings and materials must be available to ANYONE for analysis. I have personally sent plasmids, bacterial strains, etc. to other labs that wanted to check or duplicate the work done in my lab. Baugh's reluctance to allow his hammer to be analyzed is perhaps the most telling clue.A question for Purple. Do you know if chlorine is a common additive in metallurgy? Think you could sneak in a hammer into the lab and check the composition and possibly even the "bubble" content?

Just a thought. I'm not much of a metalurgist, so shoot me down if I'm way off base. If the hammer was continually exposed to sodium chloride solution through ground seepage or run off, would the iron, being positively charged, bind the chlorine and exclude sodium. Is the ionic binding strong enough for this too occur.If this were the case, would it then be possible to either elute the chlorine out of the iron? The obvious choice would be a weak solution of HF, but the chlorine may elute with high concentrations of acetic acid or other negatively charged ions. If you were able to replace the chlorine on the surface of the hammer this would seem to indicate that the chlorine contamination was not part of the manufacturing process. This would also do away with the need to get a core sample from the hammer, something which Mr. Baugh might object to.

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Scientists publish everything they discover in their papers and keep nothing secret, but them you doubt. Carl comes up with spectacular claims, many of which even ICR rejects, keeps everything to himself, but him you grant the benefit of the doubt.

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Percy, might you consider moving this paragraph over to the "Higher Standards for Creationists" thread?