Fossils—Rapidly Buried

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Many people think it took millions of years for us to get the billions of fossils we have today. But the fossil record shows evidence of having been laid down very quickly.

Jellyfish don’t have any hard parts, so they decay within hours—and yet we have perfectly preserved jellyfish fossils.

At the Creation Museum, we have a fossil of a fish buried so fast that it didn’t finish swallowing!

Fossils found all around the world show evidence of rapid burial. The Bible provides the explanation. The global flood of Noah’s day would’ve rapidly buried creatures all over the world. The Bible’s history, it explains what we see in the fossil record.

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