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TO BEGIN WITH
What is a Fossil?
A fossil is a part of an animal or a plant that has
been dead a long time—usually thousands of years. It is
preserved in rock formations in the earth's crust. In
order for a plant or an animal to become a fossil, it
must be buried almost immediately after it dies. For
example, if there was a bird on the ground and a heap
of sand suddenly fell on it causing it to die, the
remains of this bird could have survived to the present
day. Similarly, there is a resin of some trees that
becomes fossilised by geological processes and is then
called “amber”. Sometimes this resin flowed over bugs,
and the bugs died inside the resin. In this way, it
solidified, and amber and bugs have been preserved
without damage for millions of years until our time.
Thus, we can learn about creatures that lived long ago.
These remains of the creatures are called fossils. You
can see some of these fossils in the following pages.
What Does “A Transitional Form” Fossil
Mean?
The most important falsehood that evolutionists
invent is the “transitional forms”. In some evolutionist
books, these are sometimes called “intermediate
transitional forms”.
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