Well hello once again my fine
friends!
How has everyone’s week been? Mine
was not quite as hectic as the week before (praise God!), and I am getting
things a little more organized around my house and yard in preparation for the
summer months.
Speaking of organization, God’s laws
allow for the process of nature to function in an organized manner. Such as the
fossil record.
Secular science once stated (and
some still believe) that it takes millions of years for fossils to form.
However there are several inherent problems with this. For example; if an
animal dies and falls on top of the ground it doesn’t remain there very long.
Scavengers and predators will eat its flesh and bones and scatter the remaining
pieces. If that is not enough, invertebrates and microorganisms finish off the
rest turning the remains into soil. Even evolutionists now agree that fossils
must form quickly in order to prevent decay.
So the secular scientists today
teach fossils have been buried quickly (like by a cataclysmic event), but that
it happened millions of years ago. Again, there is much evidence this is not
so. Let’s take a look…
Rapid Formation of Fossils is a
matter of condition, rather than time. “Most fossils are formed when a plant or
animal is quickly and deeply buried, out of reach of scavengers and currents,
usually in mud, lime, or sand sediment rich in cementing minerals that harden
and preserve at least parts of the dead creatures. Evolutionists and
creationists agree: the ideal conditions for forming most fossils and
fossil-bearing rock layers are flood conditions…Nowhere on earth today
do we have fossils forming on the scale that we see in geologic deposits.”1
It is another clue to a global flood that occurred in the past!
Examples of rapid fossil
formation include;
1. Fossil
hat-this miner's hat is rock hard. It was found in a mine in Tasmania where it
had been covered with water for more than 50 years. Over that time the
chemicals in the water precipitated within the open structure of the felt
material of the soft hat, thus turning the soft hat into stone by a process
called calcification, which means that solid calcium carbonate has impregnated
the original felt material of the hat.
2. Fossil
teddy bears-small teddy bears placed under a waterfall in Yorkshire, England
“turned to stone” in three to five months. The so-called Petrifying Well at
Knaresborough has been a tourist attraction since 1630. Its water originates
underground and has a high mineral content. As the water splashes onto the
hanging objects, the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate) is deposited along
with small amounts of other minerals. So much for millions of years!
3. Fossil
cowboy boot-“The boot was hand made by the M.L. Leddy boot company of San
Angelo, Texas which began manufacturing boots in 1936. Gayland Leddy, nephew of
the founter, grew up in the boot business and he manages Boot Town in Garland,
Texas. He recognized the ‘number 10 stitch pattern’ used by his uncle's company
and concluded that the boot was made in the early 1950's. Only the contents of
the boot are fossilized, not the boot itself, demonstrating that some materials
fossilize more readily than others. The bones of the partial leg and foot
within the boot were revealed by an elaborate set of C.T. Scans performed at
Harris Methodist Hospital in Bedford, Texas on July 24, 1997. The Radiologic
Technician was Evelyn Americus, AART. A complete set of these 2
4. Fossil
dinosaur bones with intact tissues-Bone slices from the fossilized thigh bone
(femur) of a Tyrannosaurus rex found in the Hell Creek formation of
Montana were studied under the microscope by Schweitzer. To her amazement, the
bone showed what appeared to be blood vessels of the type seen in bone and
marrow, and these contained what appeared to be red blood cells with nuclei,
typical of reptiles and birds (but not mammals). The vessels even appeared to
be lined with specialized endothelial cells found in all blood vessels. Amazingly,
the bone marrow contained what appeared to be flexible tissue. Many studies of
Egyptian mummies and other humans of this old age (confirmed by historical
evidence) show all the sorts of detail Schweitzer reported in her T. rex.
In addition to Egyptian mummies, the Tyrolean iceman, found in the Alps in 1991
and believed to be about 5,000 years old, shows such incredible preservation of
DNA and other microscopic detail.
And
recently, just down the road from where this T. rex fossil was found, the skeleton of a triceratops was located by a rancher. He in turn informed the
Creation Research Society who came out to investigate. They dug up one of the
horns-which was in the same deposit layer as the T. rex-and after contacting Schweitzer, proceeded with the exact
same analysis that she utilized on the T.
rex. To everyone’s amazement the horn not only contain soft tissue, but
intact blood vessels and muscles as well as red blood cells!
Preservation
of vessels, cells, and complex molecules in dinosaurs is entirely consistent
with a young-earth creationist perspective and the Bible. However, it is highly
problematic with the evolutionist’s perspective about dinosaurs that died off
millions of years ago.
So, as the physical evidence
tells us, most of the dinosaur fossils (and most fossils in general) were
formed under the conditions of the Great Deluge. In would not be improbable for
tissue to survive for several centuries or even millennia under the right
conditions. But even under the right conditions, for such things to survive
intact for millions of years in just impossible.
On our timeline, dinosaurs
(dragons) were created on day five and six depending whether they flew, swam,
or were land animals. All but two of each kind (of the land and areal kinds)
perished in the flood. And we have much evidence that dinosaurs/dragons existed
after the flood as well. Which would account for some of the dino/dragon
fossils found in Post-Flood deposits, caught in conditions suited to induce
fossilization.
Which all fits nicely with the
history recorded in the Bible! God would not lie to us or mislead us. It is all
there-we just have to trust Him!Get out there and ejoy God’s beautiful world!
God bless and take care!
Willow
Dressel
This week’s night skies reveal on
“Friday, June 7 Mercury will reach its farthest distance above Venus, 5°… This is
the same separation as between fainter Pollux and Castor above them, which come
into view as twilight fades further (in the northern hemisphere). 5° is about
three finger-widths at arm's length (depending, of course, on the width of your
fingers relative to the length of your arm!).”3 Also Saturday the 8th
in the new moon, a great night to view all the stars!
References:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v7/n4/soft-tissue-in-fossils
1,2http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/cfl/how-fast
photos from Answers in Genesis
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