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Fossils all over the world show evidence of rapid burial. Many fossils, such as fossilized jellyfish,a show by the details of their soft, fleshy portionsb that they were buried rapidly, before they could decay. (Normally, dead animals and plants quickly decompose.) The presence of fossilized remains of many other animals, buried in mass graves and in twisted and contorted positions, suggest violent and rapid burials over large areas.
Charles Darwin recognized the problem of finding fossilized soft-bodied organisms such as jellyfish. He wrote: No organism wholly soft can be preserved. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 330.
Fossils crossing two or more sedimentary layers (strata) are called poly (many) strate (strata) fossils. Consider how quickly this tree trunk in Germany must have been buried. Had it been slowly, its top would have decayed. Obviously, the tree could not have grown up through the strata without sunlight and air. The only alternative is rapid burial.
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If evolution happened, the fossil record should show continuous and gradual changes from the bottom to the top layers. Actually, many gaps or discontinuities appear throughout the fossil record.a At the most fundamental level, a big gap exists between forms of life whose cells have nuclei (eukaryotes, such as plants, animals, and fungi) and those that don’t (prokaryotes such as bacteria and blue-green algae).b Fossil links are also missing between numerous plants,c between single-celled forms of life and invertebrates (animals without backbones), among insects,d between invertebrates and vertebrates (animals with backbones),e between fish and amphibians,f between amphibians and reptiles,g between reptiles and mammals,h between reptiles and birds,i between primates and other mammals,j and between apes and other primates.k In fact, chains are missing, not links. The fossil record has been studied so thoroughly it is safe to conclude these gaps are real; they will never be filled.l
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Frequently, fossils are not vertically sequenced in the assumed evolutionary order.a For example, in Uzbekistan, 86 consecutive hoofprints of horses were found in rocks dating back to the dinosaurs.b Hoofprints of some other animal are alongside 1,000 dinosaur footprints in Virginia.c A leading authority on the Grand Canyon published photographs of horselike hoofprints visible in rocks that, according to the theory of evolution, predate hoofed animals by more than a 100 million years.d Dinosaur and humanlike footprints were found together in Turkmenistane and Arizona.f Sometimes, land animals, flying animals, and marine animals are fossilized side-by-side in the same rock.g Dinosaur, whale, elephant, horse, and other fossils, plus crude human tools, have reportedly been found in phosphate beds in South Carolina.h Coal beds contain round, black lumps called coal balls, some of which contain flowering plants that allegedly evolved 100 million years after the coal bed was formed.i In the Grand Canyon, in Venezuela, in Kashmir, and in Guyana, spores of ferns and pollen from flowering plants are found in Cambrianj rocks—rocks supposedly deposited before flowering plants evolved. Pollen has also been found in Precambriank rocks deposited before life allegedly evolved.
Petrified trees in Arizona’s petrified forest contain fossilized nests of bees and cocoons of wasps. The petrified forests are reputedly 220 million years old, while bees (and flowering plants which bees require) supposedly evolved almost a 100 million years later.l Pollinating insects and fossil flies, with long, well-developed tubes for sucking nectar from flowers, are dated 25 million years before flowers are assumed to have evolved.m Most evolutionists and textbooks systematically ignore discoveries which conflict with the evolutionary time scale.


1,149 posted on 05/03/2006 1:48:51 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
If you're going to copy and paste from somewhere else, you should provide a link to the original source.

Fossils all over the world show evidence of rapid burial.

I'm sorry, but my response to this is, "Duh!" If an animal dies and is not rapidly buried, it rots and scavengers spread the carcass around. The only way that an animal can be fossilized is to be rapidly buried! This is why our richest fossil field are from shallow seas, swamps, and rivers. This in itself does not provide evidence for either YEC or evolution. However, YEC demands that all strata be laid down during the Flood 4000 years ago. Many features of geologic strata are inconsistent with deposition under water. Additionally, radiometric dating methods reliably date strata to much older ages than allowed by YEC.

Here is an article discussing "polystrate" fossils and whether they truly present a problem for an ancient earth.

I don't know why you are presenting the same bad information about the fossil record once again as I replied to it the last time. I'm afraid you're not going to convince me by once again repeating the same thing.

Regarding the last part of your post, in order for us to respond to it you need to provide the documentation of these finds including photographs and dating methods. Without documentation those are worthless.

1,153 posted on 05/03/2006 2:08:03 PM PDT by ahayes (Yes, I have a devious plot. No, you may not know what it is.)
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