Oh No! Another Fossil Dilemma
How were the multitudes of
fossils formed that we know today? By what
process or processes? Whatever that process was,
it had to have happened repeatedly over the
alleged 4.5 billion year history of the earth
— if evolution is true. Otherwise, we
would not observe and know as many fossils as we
do today. There would be even more gaps in
the fossil record than what the evolution
community would want to claim now. Yet evolution
theory has failed to adequately explain how so
many fossils came to be in the first place.
When a living being dies
and is left on the ground, it decomposes rapidly
such that over time, little or no trace of it
will remain. The fact of several hundred billion
plant, animal and sea life fossils necessitated a
mechanism of guaranteed rapid burial in either
silt, sand, mud, peat or ice in order to preserve
the specimens. In addition, the actual burial
processes that occurred have also bequeathed to
us many well preserved specimens which are not at
all fossilized.
This burial process, on a
sufficiently large geological scale as described
above, is one that we do not see or have not seen
in action for millennia, except in very isolated
geographic locations. The incidence of thousands
and millions of fossils per geographic location
all over the globe and in very diverse geologic
settings infers extremely low probability that
rapid burial as such was a common, naturalistic
earth process that occured frequently enough in
all earth's regions to have left the fossil
legacy we see today.
A much better understanding
and interpretation of the fossil record is in
order. The global flood that God put upon the
earth several thousand years ago destroyed enough
life—plants, animals, fish, dinosaurs and
people—to account for all the fossil
specimens, sedimentation and variation in earth
geology we observe today. Moreover, any animal
species that were not intentionally saved in
God's redemptive plan ("Noah's Ark")
were completely wiped off the face of the earth,
except for their fossil remains. Thus, this
global flood accounts for the many dinosaur,
plant and animal species which have been extinct
since the time of that worldwide devastation.
That the whole world was underwater for around a
one year period provided all the burial mechanism
needed to fossilize so vast an array of living
specimens.
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On another note, did a
massive asteroid or comet smash into earth,
driving dinosaurs into extinction, making way for
man, as depicted by some recent Hollywood movies?
If it happened as they imagine, then all life on
earth would have been killed off by the
decimation of food resources, not just the
dinosaurs. That would include many plant and
animal familes that existed at the time when
dinosaurs roamed the earth, and are still with us
today. Largely, dinosaurs met their demise during
the global flood as explained above.
As there are now around two
dozen theories attempting to explain the
mysterious disappearance of dinosaurs from the
face of the earth, it is worthy to note that none
of them hold any water, except of course the
global flood of Noah's time.
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