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16. Massive Graveyard of whales found in Chilean Desert.
The fossils of approximately 80 baleen whales have been found buried in the Chilean desert just north of
Caldera. Researchers also round other kinds of marine mammals including an extinct dolphin with tusks
and a sperm whale.
The fossils were found alongside the highway in an area of
about 70 feet by 800 feet. The whales were about 25 feet
long and perfectly preserved. So the question must be
asked, “How did these whales end up in the desert so far
from water?” The field evidence for a large-scale
catastrophe is overwhelming as these research scientists
have reported. The supposed age the paleontologists gave
for the fossils was about 2 million years. More than likely,
the fossils are only a few thousand years old and were
deposited to this site shortly after the flood subsidence.
The sandstone strata containing the whale fossils is contained within a local area called the Caldera
basin. It is quite obvious that these fossils were deposited to this remote site by water and were buried
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rapidly to leave them intact for this discovery.
Conclusion:
The billions of fossils found to date speak of rapid burial by water, then rapid entombment under
millions of tons of sand and stone. Massive graveyards of plants and animals from all parts of the world
are buried together. Remember, presuppositions determine predictions. From a creationist’s
viewpoint, the fossil evidence backs the predictions that a world-wide flood would have caused what we
see in the sedimentary rocks.
12.4 Let’s Practice…
1. What is the Cambrian Explosion?
2. Why does the Cambrian Explosion demonstrate Creation?
3. Do you think that a sufficient number of fossils have been discovered to validate or
invalidate evolutionary ideas?
4. How does finding an open clam fossil on the top of Mt. Everest validate the Biblical Flood?
5. How does finding red blood cells in a T Rex fossil demonstrate that the T Rex lived a short time ago?
6. What tremendous problems are found in the geological column proposed by evolutionists?
7. How does finding a trilobite in a human shoe print call to question evolutionary time scales?
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