Author's Note: Here is an article I wrote for my science class in December.
Fossils are found all over the world. You can find them on the tops of the tallest mountains to the bottom of the deepest oceans and everywhere in between. Their wide distribution throughout the earth’s crust is caused by the geological changes during Noah’s flood. All fossils supposedly help support evolution. They are mostly found in the sedimentary layers of the earth’s crust, but that does not mean that it proves that they slowly formed over hundreds of million years, nor does it prove that it took a short period for them to form. If we observe minor catastrophes like the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, whose sedimentary layers were formed in a matter of hours creating a canyon, it is hard to believe that it would have to take millions of years for each layer to be laid down. It takes specific geological conditions for fossilization to occur in a short period of time and not millions of years. A world-wide flood would explain why we find large amounts of fossilized plants and animals all over the world. There are numerous accounts of large numbers of fossilized creatures that have been found together, that show that their fossilization must have happened rapidly in a very short period of time. Animals are not the only things that have been fossilized. There are numerous other things, such as tree trunks. Many tree trunks are found upright in the sedimentary layers and pass through more than one layer. The uniformitarian’s perspective on these trees is that it took hundreds of millions of years for the tree trunks to fossilize. The tree trunks contradict the requirements for fossilization over long periods of time. They would have decomposed long before all the Sedimentary layers could have been laid down if it had taken millions of years for fossilization to occur. It wouldn’t have been possible for the fossilization of these tree trunks to take long periods of time. Because the tree trunks pass through may strata, it would make sense if the sedimentary layers were laid down rapidly in a short amount of time. It would also make sense that the trees were positioned upright through-out multiple sedimentary layers by catastrophic events large or small. Large fossil graveyards are big contradictions to what uniformitarians believe. Large fossil graveyards have hefty numbers of different types of once living creatures that are jumbled together. Additionally, in China and in the Americas there are large amounts of fossilized dinosaurs mixed together. Why are there so many fossils in one place? Many fossil graveyards are found up in the upper elevations of mountains. On the island of Sicily, off the coast of Italy, there are two mountain caves with thousands of fossilized hippopotami. On the island of Malta there are great numbers of fossilized animals jumbled together in one place. Malta has so many fossilized animals that the island itself would not have been able to sustain the lives of all the animals that were found there. A death pit near Hollywood, California has two hundred and fifty saber-toothed tigers, fifty elephants, and numerous other types of animals all of which are fossilized together. Before the Spaniards migrated to America there were no elephants or horses and yet we find numerous amounts of fossils of each of these animals there.
So why do we find such a numerous amount of fossilized animals and plants? A worldwide flood would explain how a large amount of animals were fossilized in one place. If the animals were trying to reach higher ground because of a flood, it would explain why most fossils are found in the upper elevations of mountains, and not so much in lower places like gorges and valleys. A worldwide flood would also explain why tree trunks are found standing upright and going through many sedimentary layers. If it had take millions of years for the fossilization to occur, then how did the living animals and plants not decompose before fossilization was complete?
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