Fast-Forming Fossils

How to Form a Fossil

by Ken Ham on February 3, 2025

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Evolutionary teaching has indoctrinated us to think it takes millions of years to make a fossil—but it doesn’t! It just takes the right conditions.

See to make a fossil, you must bury a plant or animal quickly to keep it from being eaten or rotting away. Once buried, the organism can mineralize to become a fossil.

This process doesn’t take a long time. In the lab, scientists can create artificial fossils that are identical to real fossils in just twenty-four hours. Time’s not necessary—it’s all about the right conditions. And the conditions were perfect to form billions of fossils during the global flood of Noah’s day.

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