QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What can we learn from a fossil graveyard?

 

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In this issue . . . Q&A: What can we learn from a fossil graveyard? Get Equipped: Answers magazine News to Know Quick Look After Eden Answers . . . with Ken Ham radio program Answers Conversation podcast Video: Go into All the World, Part 1 Blog Highlights Pray for AiG Q: What can we learn from a fossil graveyard? A: The Messel Pit in Germany is a fossil graveyard. The exquisite preservation of the animals there is consistent with rapid catastrophic burial, not centuries of gradual burial allowing for distortion and decomposition. The global Flood of Noah's day, around 4,300 years ago, is recorded in biblical history in the book of Genesis, confirmed by Jesus Christ Himself, and attested to by a large portion of the fossil record in general as well as fossil graveyards around the world. The Flood itself and post-Flood catastrophes swept away and sorted countless animals and plants and buried them in water-borne sediment. Some were buried en masse, creating fossil graveyards. Layers in the fossil record reveal the order of burial, not the order of evolving life. There are fossil graveyards found at many different levels in the geologic column around the world. This particular fossil graveyard, in Eocene rock, is fairly high in the geologic column—high enough that many creationist geologists believe it represents a group of animals suddenly and catastrophically buried amid the unstable conditions in the aftermath of the global Flood. Read the whole article to consider more fossil evidence from the Messel Pit—animals catastrophically buried in the global flood. Get Equipped Rock Strata, Fossils, and the Flood If the global Flood cataclysm really occurred as described in Genesis 7–8, then what evidence would we look for? Wouldn't we expect to find billions of dead plants and animals deposited rapidly by water in rock layers all over the earth? In this illustrated lecture, Dr. Andrew Snelling demonstrates that is exactly what we find. News to Know Quick Look Today's question was also a News to Know item. In case you missed it, this week we also featured the following News to Know items: Epigenetic Changes Let Mice Inherit Their Fathers' Fears: Are inherited fears mere fodder for novels, or is there some basis for them in science? Neanderthal Toe Said to Suggest an Incestuous Culture: A Neanderthal toe and Denisovan finger trace humanity's genetic footprint near and far. After Eden Answers . . . with Ken Ham radio program Global Warming Part 5: Climate Change—How Should Christians Respond? Part 4: Rising Oceans and Changing Weather—Is It True?) Part 3: Global Warming—Is It Causing Extinctions? Part 2: Are Humans Causing Climate Change? Part 1: Is Global Warming Happening? Photo of the Week To download this image for use as wallpaper on your device, right-click on the link below for the desired resolution and select "Save Link/Target As..." Mobile Full (4:3) Wide (16:9) Answers Conversation podcast This week Steve Ham talks with AiG speaker Dr. Terry Mortenson to answer the question, "What Do Systematic Theology Textbooks Teach About Creation?"	This Week . . . Examples of Critical Thinking: Scientific Application (Jan 10) Epigenetic Changes Let Mice Inherit Their Fathers' Fears (Jan 9) An Initial Estimate toward Identifying and Numbering the Ark Turtle and Crocodile Kinds (Jan 8) Does the AiG Website Discriminate Against Atheists? (Jan 7) Neanderthal Toe Said to Suggest an Incestuous Culture (Jan 6) It's Nye Time to Order Debate Tickets (Jan 6) What Makes the Earth Unique? (Jan 5) Secrets of the Messel Pit, a Fossil Graveyard (Jan 4) Video On Demand Go into All the World, Part 1 Watch Video Blog Highlights Ark Encounter: Genuine Ark, Part 5: Building on Land or Water? Ken Ham: Mysterious Black Holes Creation Museum: Family Fun Night—July 11, 2014 Ken Ham: Conspiracy Theories Abound Ken Ham: Sloppy Research for an Anti-AiG Academic Pray for AiG Pray for preparations for the upcoming debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Pray also that many would see the truth of God's Word. Resources The New Answers Book 1–4 Combo The Answers Book for Kids, Volume 2 The Homosexual War DVD Connect with Us Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter Creation Museum Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter Creation Museum Answers in Genesis Ark Encounter Creation Museum See all networks Free app for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
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