Dec
10
Let’s Talk - Fossils
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I always find it fascinating when I hear a “scientist” talking about how fossils were formed by hundreds or thousands of years of sediment accumulating on top of some plant or animal resulting in a perfectly well-preserved impression of the thing as it existed while living. Unfortunately, many people simple take these so-called “experts” at their word without really thinking about it. How would we use this theory to create a fossil today? OK, let’s assume that an opossum strolls into your yard and somehow meets his demise (use your imagination)! Let’s also assume that you don’t care that there is a dead opossum laying in your yard so you simply leave it there for a year. Now, let’s just say that for some reason none of the carrion-eating animals or insects (such as buzzards, beetles, dogs, etc.) discover this delicacy and it continues to lay there undisturbed through rain, snow, heat, and falling leaves for a whole year. What would be left of it after a year? The answer is very little of the original form of the animal would remain. There may be a few bones left but it would hardly be recognizable as an opossum.
So what other explanation could there possibly be for the forming of beautifully detailed fossils that are discovered after centuries passed? Seems to me that the only possible way for this to happen would be for the creature to be caught in some kind of liquid-like fluid substance as if placed in a mould (such as plaster of paris or cement).
Most fossils are discovered in sedimentary rock formations most commonly in the form of limestone. According to Answers.com,
“Limestone is formed from deposition of the skeletal remains of dead sea organisms and the precipitation of the mineral calcite out of aqueous solutions with high concentrations of the mineral. Layers or strata may appear in limestone which indicate individual periods of deposition. As massive amounts of sedimentation occur over time, the weight from above squeezes out the water and space between particles in a process called compaction. Minerals that form between the deposited particles acts as a cement to hold them together in a process called cementation.”
“The sedimentary rock cover of the continents of the Earth’s crust is extensive” — Wikipedia
Hmmm… that sounds like a possible explanation! But what could have caused a giant cement mixer effect swirling together massive amounts of water, living creatures, sea creature skeletons, and calcite covering an extensive amount of the Earth’s surface? The answer can be found in the Bible in chapter 7 of the book of Genesis:
17-18For forty days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground. 19-20Finally, the mighty flood was so deep that even the highest mountain peaks were almost twenty-five feet below the surface of the water. 21Not a bird, animal, reptile, or human was left alive anywhere on earth. 22-23The LORD destroyed everything that breathed. Nothing was left alive except Noah and the others in the boat. 24A hundred fifty days later, the water started going down.
The Bible is true and contains all of the answers to all of the questions that mankind could ever imagine. Talk about fascinating! Why do we try to make things more complicated?
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