For generations, we have been fed a scientifically unsupportable line of propaganda about how dinosaurs and other organisms were fossilized. If you travel to any Museum of Natural History or even to places like Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, you will read nice (imaginary) explanations about how the fossils originated, and why they are at the site. All over the world there are massive “fossil graveyards” where thousand or millions of fossilized creatures lie buried or partially exposed.
These graveyards are not evidence supporting evolutionists claims. Rather, in the words of Roger Patterson, “the greatest testimonies to a worldwide flood are the many, massive fossil graveyards across the globe”. (1) Why would he say this? Because the very presence of such massive graveyards is evidence, if not almost proof, of a global flood. Fossils do not form if a creature dies naturally and is eaten and decomposed by natural processes. They require sudden burial (as in a sudden, catastrophic global flood with massive mudslides in an environment that lacks oxygen) in order to fossilize.
Patterson also notes that in places like the Green river formation in Wyoming, we find birds, bats, ocean fish, insects and land plants all buried together. How could these be buried together if not for a huge catastrophe like the flood?
And what about oil and coal in the deep earth strata? We are told that there was lush growth which gathered and were compressed over millions of years, forming oil and coal. Yet so many scientific facts and observations do NOT fit this story line. For one, why would they not have been destroyed by bacteria and turned into simple organic matter if this happened as a normal process over millions of years? That would comply with the uniformitarian views evolutionists claim to espouse.
Also, many samples contain carbon 14, which should be impossible if they are over 50,000 years old. In addition, coal often has readily visible bark from trees, and even track marks from crabs, dinosaurs, and amphibians (2) which might occur in cases of sudden rapid burial, but not with gradual accumulation over hundreds of thousand of years.
And then there are those troublesome polystrate fossils (see the above picture). How can a fossilized tree be found vertically, penetrating what we are told is many millions of years of accumulated sediments? Author John McKay, who has found “there are polystrates of just about every fossil known if you look hard enough, and the reality is that any fossils even those that lie parallel to their strata yet are thicker than one lamina of sediment, by definition have to be polystrate.” (3) But the question is, how can a fragile fern be fossilized vertically in strata that would otherwise be thought to represent millions of years of accumulation? But for those who believe in the Great Global Flood, this represents no problem at all. It makes absolute and complete sense.
Famous Evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould in Natural History magazine said, “The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change, and the principle of natural selection does not require it — selection can operate rapidly. Yet the unnecessary link that Darwin forged became a central tenet of the synthetic theory.” He also tried to defend a fellow evolutionist, writing, “Goldschmidt raised no objection to the standard accounts of microevolution; … He broke sharply with the synthetic theory, however in arguing that new species arise abruptly by discontinuous variation, or macromutation.”(4)
This overt admission that the fossil record does not support evolution has yet to reach the halls of academia, where evolution is still taught, and the fossil record is still used as proof. Yet Gould tries to rescue the theory with yet another unscientific proposal, seeming to believe that new species appeared fully formed in the past, but still somehow he manages to call this evolution. But for an interesting and very readable account of this story, please see the article by Scot Wall in the Houston Chronicle from 2008.(4)
(1) P 148, Evolution Exposed, 2008, Answers in Genesis USA.
(2) Ibid, p. 151
(3) AskJohnMackay.com/polystrate-fossils-vertical-fossil-trees-any-other-polystrate-fossils/
John 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
” For one, why would they not have been destroyed by bacteria and turned into simple organic matter if this happened as a normal process over millions of years? ” …because bacteria require oxygen to live. Ther is no free oxygen in buriednrock strata.
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I think you are missing the point. If the strata were laid down immediately, as in a flood, mudslide, or volcanic eruption, then there would have been no oxygen and they could fossilize. If they were laid down over millions of years (as taught in modern geology texts) there would have been oxygen and decomposition. Thus no fossils.
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Rubbish, heavy strata will exclude oxygen regardless of the timespan.
Mudslides hace very specific character when lithified as does flood deposits. There are many fossils contained in layers that are not of the type you describe.
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In the time it takes your heavy strata to form, natural processes will have already decomposed most biological material, correct? Unless it was rapidly buried. Thus no fossils.
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Yes, mostly. Except bones which take far longer. And, surprise suprise- most fossils are from bones.
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