The Genesis Flood andthe Fossil Record

Session 10

Session BackgroundSession BackgroundThe purpose of this session is to demonstrate that the observational scientific evidence supports a worldwide flood.

TopicsTopics The Flood and the fossil record

1. Charles Darwin2. Cambrian explosion3. Lack of transitions (living fossils)4. Textbooks and deception5. History of mistakes6. Fossil graveyards7. Marine fossils everywhere8. Polystrate fossils

The Flood and the fossil record1. Charles Darwin2. Cambrian explosion3. Lack of transitions (living fossils)4. Textbooks and deception5. History of mistakes6. Fossil graveyards7. Marine fossils everywhere8. Polystrate fossils

“…why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of species being, as we see them, well defined?”

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1st ed., Chapter 6, p.171.

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Cambrian Explosion

CambrianPrecambrian

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Single cell to complex organisms

“Paleontologists call the diversification of life during the early Cambrian Period the ‘Cambrian Explosion.’ For the first time, organisms had hard parts, including shells and outer skeletons. During the Cambrian Period, the first known representatives of most animal phyla evolved.”

Biology [ textbook], Miller and Levine, 2002, p. 430

Lack of Transitions (Living Fossils)Lack of Transitions (Living Fossils)

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http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=BhAgsBwaTbx2BM&tbnid=g5ZnzgvXsg5cgM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http://www.go-colorado.com/florissant-nps-shale-fossil-wolf-spider/&ei=3GnhUoKgJYa4qQGRg4GYDA&bvm=bv.59930103,d.aWc&psig=AFQjCNHL_HM4-4vZ3VlG1Gb1nUHmZU5AFw&ust=1390590686529670

Alligators: No change in 100 million years

Coelacanth: No change in 100 million years

Tuatara Lizard: No change in 200 million years

Scorpions: no change in 360 million years

Jellyfish: no change in over 500 million years

Textbook DeceptionTextbook Deception

Words Pictures

Words Pictures

4The deception in school textbooks comes in two formats

“Spontaneous origin is the process through which life is thought to have developed when molecules of nonliving matter reacted chemically during the first billion years of Earth’s history. These molecules formed many different simple, organic molecules.”

Biology: Principles and Explorations, 2001, p. 252

The Origin of LifeThe Origin of Life

“Energized by the sun and volcanic heat, these simple, organic molecules formed more-complex molecules that eventually became the building blocks of the first cells. The hypothesis that many of the organic building blocks of life were made from molecules of nonliving matter has been tested and confirmed using scientific methods in laboratory experiments.”

“Scientists use radioactive decay to assign absolute ages to rocks.”

Radiometric Dating MethodsRadiometric Dating Methods

“Another radioactive isotope that is commonly used to determine the absolute age of an object is carbon-14.”

Glencoe Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe, 2002 p. 563.

Real Evolution or Art?

LucyWhale evolution

Bird evolution

Human evolution

“For instance, modern whales are the descendants of four-legged land animals…”

Biology: Visualizing Life, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1998, p. 177.

DeceptionDeceptionPakicetus: a candidate for

whale evolution?Pakicetus: a candidate for

whale evolution?

Pakicetus reconstruction

by National Geographic

Pakicetus reconstruction

by National Geographic

Only the shaded portions of the skull were found

Only the shaded portions of the skull were found

Updated PakicetusUpdated Pakicetus

A wolf-like land mammal, with legs capable of running

Real Evolution

5 History of Mistakes Piltdown Man Nebraska Man Ramapithecus Lucy Archaeoraptor Coelacanth Haeckel’s fraud Junk DNA Fossil horses Miller experiment

Bacteria resistance Darwin’s finches Vestigial organs Archaeopteryx Peppered moth 3% DNA difference Dinosaurs (65 mya) Grand Canyon Carbon-14 dating Education system

6 Fossil GraveyardsFossil Graveyards

Vast fossil graveyards found throughout the world present a major challenge to proponents of evolution.

Found in sediments laid down by water

Fossil Graveyards

Agate Springs, Nebraska

A fossil graveyard of about 9,000 animals

Agate Springs, Nebraska

A fossil graveyard of about 9,000 animals

Rhinos, horses, camels, giant wild boars, birds, plants, trees, sea shells and fishRhinos, horses, camels, giant wild boars, birds, plants, trees, sea shells and fish

Como Bluffs, Wyoming

Dinosaur graveyard seven miles long

483 dinosaurs

Dinosaur graveyard seven miles long

483 dinosaurs

The Cleveland Lloyd Quarry in Utah

The Cleveland Lloyd Quarry in Utah

Over 12,000 bones belonging to at least 74 individual dinosaurs

Alaska and Siberia Area

A graveyard of bears, wolf, fox, badgers, saber-tooth cat, jaguar, lynx, mammoth, mastodon, horses, camel, antelope, bison, caribou, moose, elk, sheep, musk-ox, yak, ground sloth, and several rodents

A graveyard of bears, wolf, fox, badgers, saber-tooth cat, jaguar, lynx, mammoth, mastodon, horses, camel, antelope, bison, caribou, moose, elk, sheep, musk-ox, yak, ground sloth, and several rodents

Dinosaur National Monument, UtahDinosaur National Monument, Utah

It is one of the largest fossil graveyards in the world. Over 1,600 individual bones have been found of 11 different species of dinosaurs plus several complete skeletons.

It is one of the largest fossil graveyards in the world. Over 1,600 individual bones have been found of 11 different species of dinosaurs plus several complete skeletons.

“Billions of straight-shelled, chambered nautiloids are found fossilized with other marine creatures in a 7 feet thick layer within the Redwall Limestone of Grand Canyon.”

“Billions of straight-shelled, chambered nautiloids are found fossilized with other marine creatures in a 7 feet thick layer within the Redwall Limestone of Grand Canyon.”

Grand Canyon

Hundreds of thousands of marine creatures are buried with amphibians, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, insects and reptiles in a fossil graveyard in France.

FranceFrance

Alligators, fish, birds, turtles, mammals, many varieties of insects, and palm leaves are buried in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Alligators, fish, birds, turtles, mammals, many varieties of insects, and palm leaves are buried in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Wyoming

Whale GraveyardWhale GraveyardA fossil graveyard containing more than 75 ancient whales was discovered in Chile. Of the 75 whales that have been discovered so far, 20 of them represent perfectly intact skeletons.

Marine FossilsMarine Fossils

“At least 95 percent of all animal fossils are of marine invertebrates. They are found in great variety, but all are well-designed for life in the sea…. These fossilized marine creatures are typically found in catastrophic deposits.”

John Morris (Ph.D. Geological Engineering), “The Real Nature of the Fossil Record,” http://www.icr.org/article/real-nature-fossil-record/

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Marine Fossils on MountainsMarine Fossils on Mountains Fossils of whales and other marine

animals are found in sediments in the Andes Mountains.

Fossils of whales and other marine animals are found in sediments in the Andes Mountains.

Marine fossils are found high in the Himalayas, the world’s tallest mountain range, reaching up to 29,029 feet above sea level.

Marine fossils are found high in the Himalayas, the world’s tallest mountain range, reaching up to 29,029 feet above sea level.

Polystrate FossilsPolystrate Fossils8

The Weight of the EvidenceThe Weight of the Evidence

1. Charles Darwin2. Cambrian explosion3. Lack of transitions (living fossils)4. Textbooks and deception5. History of mistakes6. Fossil graveyards7. Marine fossils everywhere8. Polystrate fossils

1. Charles Darwin2. Cambrian explosion3. Lack of transitions (living fossils)4. Textbooks and deception5. History of mistakes6. Fossil graveyards7. Marine fossils everywhere8. Polystrate fossils

End Session 10