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knowledge about the creatures that lived since the

beginning of life on Earth.
Yes, boys and girls, here is an outline of the
stages of fossil formation. The first stage occurs af-
ter death when the soft tissues start to decompose,
leaving behind only hard components such as bones
and teeth. The creature must be buried very quickly
to prevent the bones from decomposing. After a long

period, the bones are buried under the lower layers
of precipitate and start to replace the minerals
found in the underground water. This causes the
body of the creature to fossilize. With the slow move-
ment of the earth above them, the fossil begins to
move from the stratum of rock where it was formed
toward the earth’s surface. Fossils near the surface
either appear by themselves or are discovered by sci-
entists.

Evolutionists try to use fossils to support their
own theories. They take a fossil and claim that it is
the ancestor of a creature that lives today. They cre-

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