Order in the Fossils

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Did you know there is order to the fossil record? Some of the earliest fossils we find in rock layers are from marine life. Then come amphibians and reptiles, and finally birds and large mammals. Now there are exceptions, of course, but this is the basic order we observe.

Evolutionists believe it is because life arose from a common ancestor and gradually got more complex as time went on. But the Bible offers another explanation. The global Flood would have buried creatures, starting in the oceans . . . and then moving farther inland. The order in the fossils doesn’t represent different times—it is different environments.

It makes sense we would see marine fossils before birds as the floodwaters rose to cover the continents.

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• Order in the Fossil Record