Fast-Forming Fossils

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What’s the key to forming a fossil? Well, if you guessed “time” you’re wrong! The key is the right conditions—specifically rapid burial and mineral rich mud.

In the lab, scientists can create fossils that look identical to “real” fossils in just days or even hours! That’s right, even in the lab fossils don’t require time, just the right conditions.

Now the global flood, described in the Bible, would form the perfect conditions to bury billions and billions of creatures very quickly! Fossils aren’t proof of millions of years—they’re a testimony to the catastrophic global flood of Noah’s day just a few thousand years ago!

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• Experiment: Fast-Formed Fossils
• Soft Tissue Fossilization