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Study Section11: Do the Fossils Support Evolutionary Theory or

Validate the Flood?
11.1 Connect

If you build a house, you must gather building material to a location. You need cement,
sand, blocks, metal sheets for the roof, doors made from wood or metal, plastic pipes for
drainage, and so on. You can only create something out of materials already existing. You
cannot simply go to the job site and create a house out of NOTHING. But that is what God
did. How is that possible? Today, we will see what a powerful Creator God is.

11.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to describe the process of fossilization. You should be able to
explain how the process occurs.

2. The student should be able to explain the Geological Column created by evolutionary scientists and
see how it is a fabrication to confuse millions of students learning about geology.

3. The student should be able to state two hypotheses: if evolution is true, what should the fossil
record look like and if cataclysmic creationism is true, what should the fossil look like.

11.3 Do the fossils support evolutionary theory or validate the flood?

Introduction

When Darwin wrote his “Origin of Species”, relatively few fossils had been unearthed and none
had given even a shade of proof of his theory. Now, over 160 year later, scientists have
unearthed millions of fossils and still none can be identified as an intermediate life form
between the major plant and animal groups.

Darwin and his contemporaries were aware of this problem with the fossil record some 160 years ago,
but they believed that the fossil record had been insufficiently sampled up to that time. Their “belief”
was that paleontological research in the future would more adequately sample the fossil record and
show it to be more in line with evolutionary theory. They were wrong! Exactly the opposite
happened. After a century and half of excavating fossils from the strata we have found the problem to
be worse, not better. Contrary to the tree of life depicted in the school books, the fossil record depicts
exactly the opposite story. The tree of life is an inverted cone and not a tree at all.

Today, let’s examine the fossil record to see what is revealed. Before we deal with fossils, however, we
must first understand how fossils are formed and once found, how scientists date them.

The Process of Fossilization

Fossilization is the process by which plant and animal remains are preserved in sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rock is that which is laid down by water. Some organisms were buried intact quickly, and
their remains are the best preserved. Others, were buried after they had suffered some decay and
breakup. Their remains are usually found in beds of jumbled bone of all types and different species.
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