“Why I am Not an Evolutionist …”

              The Science Lecture Class Handout

 By Andy Carmichael © 2003

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8.      How do you become a fossil ?

Get buried rapidly in thick, wet sediment that contains a chemical cementing agent … The global fossil record could have been formed only by a global Flood of the hydrothermal, hot, highly pressurized, highly permineralised subterranean waters – the Biblical “fountains of the great deep”. This is simply subterranean water at high pressure and high temperature, containing a vast amount of dissolved salts and minerals in solution.

·         How long does it take for an animal, plant or person to become fossilised after dying … ?

How long does it take for an animal, plant or person to become fossilized ? Let’s ask an evolutionist :

“The amount of time that it takes for a bone to become completely permineralized is highly variable. If the groundwater is heavily laden with minerals in solution, the process can happen rapidly. Modern bones that fall into mineral springs can become permineralized within a matter of weeks.”

(Philip J. Currie, evolutionist, Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Alberta, Canada, 1996 [21] )

“Bones do not have to be ‘turned into stone’ to be fossils, and usually most of the original bone is still present in a dinosaur fossil.”

(Philip J. Currie, evolutionist, Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Alberta, Canada, 1996 [22] )

“A relatively common fossil found on many parts of the coast of northern Australia, Thalassina is a crustacean, a kind of lobster, that lives in burrows on tidal mudflats. Like all other crustaceans, it has to cast off its shell in order to grow. Throughout its life, a single Thalassina may produce a dozen or more shells. Each time it molts, the shell is buried at the bottom of the burrow and a new living chamber is excavated. Buried in mud, the cast-off shell can be fossilized in a very short time, perhaps less than a year. Some of these fossils are so young that the animals that shed them may still be alive.”

(Rocks and Fossils – The Ultimate Guide to the Earth, Collins, 1996 [23] ) (emphasis added)

“Although professionals understand how fast fossils begin to form under flood conditions, the general public often does not. … That same process, mineral in-fill, can turn wood, bones, and shells into fossils in a short period of time. Indeed, fossils can be made in the laboratory !

… In short, floods form fossils fast ! …

Like most Americans, I was mis-taught in grade school that it takes millions of years and tremendous heat and pressure to turn sediments (like sand, lime, or clay) into rock (like sandstone, limestone, or shale). We all know better. Concrete is just artificial rock. Cement companies crush rock, separate the cementing minerals and large stones, then sell it to you. You add water to produce the chemical reaction (curing, not drying), and rock forms again – easily, naturally, and quickly, right before your very eyes. … Time, heat, and pressure can and do alter the properties of rock (including ‘Flood rock’), but the initial formation of most rocks, like the setting of concrete, is quite rapid. …

Once a plant or animal is buried deeply enough in the right kind of sediment, there’s no special trick involved in turning it into fossil, and no huge amount of time is required. Minerals simply accumulate in the specimen itself or in the cavity left by the specimen after it rots away.”

(Dr Gary Parker, PhD in biology, creationist scientist, biologist and palaeontologist, former university lecturer in evolution, Science Faculty Fellow of the US National Science Foundation, Creation Facts of Life, 1997 [24] )