Fossils

Throughout the world’s rock layers there are billions of fossils, the remains of organisms that were catastrophically buried largely during the global Flood (2348 BC). Understandably the vast majority of these are marine creatures and they were buried quickly and sequentially by habitat.

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The Making of a Fossil

Do fossils require millions of years to form? Hardly! Even secular geologists now recognize that rocks form very quickly.

Fossils of Dinosaur National Monument

Each visitor to Dinosaur National Monument sees the same evidence—massive amounts of dinosaur (and other) fossils all jumbled together. How one explains the formation of this fossil bed depends on one’s worldview. When viewed from a biblical perspective, the evidence is consistent with what one would expect from a worldwide Flood.

Putting Fossils Back Together

This research reminds us of the caution we should accord to every fossil reconstruction. Especially when it comes to supposed “ape-men” like Lucy, Ardi, and others, we must be aware of the fact that evolutionary ideas may be (consciously or subconsciously) guiding the reconstruction.

Five Fossil Mysteries

We can never answer all the questions. But with practice at “fossil sleuthing” from a biblical perspective, at least we can get better and better at evaluating each new discovery in a God-honoring way that might yield new insights into God’s person and work.

Fossils Topics

• Magazine Department Article

  Dinosaurs: Parts of the World

  

  Jan. 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine

  Paleontologists have dusted off 45 new dinosaur species every year since 2003, and many of these discoveries unearthed dinosaurs with especially unique features.

• Were Plesiosaurs Both Marine and Freshwater Animals?

  

  Sept. 3, 2022

  How creationists can interpret unique plesiosaur fossil evidence in a flood context

• Magazine Article

  Soft Tissue in Fossils

  

  July 18, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  Ask the average layperson how he or she knows that the earth is millions or billions of years old, and that person will probably mention the dinosaurs.

• Magazine Department Article

  Santana Fossils—Delighting in the Details

  

  March 7, 2021 from Answers Magazine

  The fine details preserved in fossils mystify evolutionists but not paleontologists who believe in the Genesis flood.

• Magazine Department Article

  Living Fossils—Here, There, and Everywhere

  

  Jan. 1, 2020 from Answers Magazine

  Evolutionists like to talk about change, so how do they explain so many living creatures that look like their fossilized ancestors?

• Magazine Department Article

  The End of the Trail: Horseshoe Crabs

  

  Nov. 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  Horseshoe crabs are called “living fossils” because the ones you see in aquariums today look the same as their ancestors deep in the fossil record.

• In-Depth Article

  Hoatzin Bird: Evidence Against Evolutionary Ideas

  

  Jan. 18, 2019 from Answers in Depth

  The hoatzin is a very unique bird, a conglomeration of traits typical of birds, reptiles, and mammals. Its most unique features are distinctly un-birdlike.

• In-Depth Article

  Ichthyosaur: Evidence of Design and the Flood

  

  Oct. 16, 2018 from Answers in Depth

  Ichthyosaurus is well studied, and research on their skeletons has provided evidence for incredible design and the global flood.

• Fascinating Fossils: Glimpse the Creation Museum’s Collection

  

  Oct. 11, 2017

  Fossils act as a record preserved to teach us about the earth’s past, to confirm Scripture, and to glorify God. They can be found everywhere from the bottom of canyons to mountain peaks and maybe even in your back yard.

• In-Depth Article

  Was Our Oldest Itty-Bitty Ancestor All Mouth?

  

  March 21, 2017 from Answers in Depth

  Saccorhytus is, the authors believe, the oldest and simplest known deuterostome, the evolutionary forebear of all vertebrates and some invertebrates.

• In-Depth Article

  Dinosaur Tissue

  

  Oct. 20, 2016 from Answers in Depth

  Despite a large body of evidence for the authenticity of the dinosaur tissue, there remains a pattern of denial within the evolutionist community.

• Magazine Department Article

  Amazingly Preserved Leaves

  

  Oct. 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  Beautifully preserved fossils are so common that we overlook how unusual they are.

• In-Depth Article

  Monkey Teeth: Proof of God’s Post-Flood Provisions

  

  June 28, 2016 from Answers in Depth

  Animals can show up in the oddest places and make evolutionists scratch their heads as is the case with the newly discovered monkey fossils.

• Book Chapter

  3.1 The Fossil Evidence—Introduction

  March 28, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life

  Can changes from molecules-to-man (macroevolution) be explained by (extrapolated from) the process of mutation-selection (microevolution)?

• Ancient Tropical “Transitional” Forests Found Fossilized in the Arctic

  

  March 17, 2016

  Thus this fossil-bearing sedimentary rock sequence on Spitsbergen is better understood from the biblical perspective of the eyewitness account in Genesis.

• In-Depth Article

  Preserved Cretaceous Collagen and Dinosaur Blood: Common Clues to a Catastrophic Past?

  June 22, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Evolutionists have come to largely accept the fact that soft tissues can be preserved in fossils for an extraordinarily long time. But millions of years . . . ?

• Magazine Department Article

  Grounds for Reevaluation

  April 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  The fossil of a creature resembling a groundhog that lived during the time of dinosaurs has become an anomaly for evolutionists.

• Magazine Department Article

  I Must Go Down to the Seas Again

  April 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, whose discovery was hailed last November, is being hailed as an evolutionary link, but this characterization is premature.

• In-Depth Article

  Will Fish Fossil Change Evolutionary Tree?

  Feb. 7, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Did jawed vertebrates start out with bones or not? Evolutionists want to know.

• In-Depth Article

  Dreadnoughtus Takes the Prize for Largest Confirmed Land Animal

  

  Sept. 18, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Massive Dreadnoughtus said to shed light on the evolution of gigantism.

• In-Depth Article

  Did All Dinosaurs Have Feathers?

  Aug. 2, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Get used to seeing feathers on all evolutionary depictions of dinosaurs, not just theropods!

• In-Depth Article

  Thirty Million Years Didn’t Really Change China’s Jurassic Park

  March 8, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  China’s Jurassic fossils get a new name.

• Common Ancestor Hidden in Burgess Shale

  March 10, 2012 from News to Know

  Burgess Shale said to shelter “the most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans.”

• Which Version of History Do Fossils Reflect?

  March 10, 2012 from News to Know

  Fossil diversity “accurately reflects history”—but which version of history?

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