Fancy fossils? I don?t know any creationist who would doubt the existence of fossils. We have a huge fossil collection at our Dinosaur Adventure Land, in Pensacola. Fossils don?t speak, nor do they come with a tag on them when they are taken from the ground. There?s no such thing as a ?fossil record?; there are simply fossils in the dirt. This is much more evidence for a worldwide flood than for a slow, gradual, evolutionary change over time. None of the fossils found so far have shown any evidence for the evolutionary theory. They only show evidence of rapid burial, often in mass graves of millions of fossils, indicated the Biblical flood story is the most likely explanation for their existence.
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"There's no such thing as a 'fossil record'; there are simply fossils in the dirt. "
Oh Kent, you really are quite dumb. Did it never occur to you that certain properties of the fossils provide clues as to the time from which the animal lived, how they died, etc?
It's like a murder mystery, or the modern study of forensics. The police don't just find a body and say it's just a body . They pore over it and the scene. Now, admittedly you can't do many of those things on long-dead, fossilised remains. But there is still information to be found if one looks.
But you'd rather not do any of that investigation and simply say "god did it". What's worse, you convince other people (including many children) to do the same. I guess you like your little anti-science ghetto .
I know a creationist who doubts the existence of fossils: my batshit fundie uncle. He told me that all these creatures never really existed God just made things that looked like skeletons and stuck them in the ground to fool evil people like scientists, making them think the world was more than 6,000 years old.
I said, "So, by planting fake evidence, your god is lying to us? I thought he was supposed to be good."
This sent him away spitting, spluttering and grunting. I was about 13 at the time.
No idea of how palaeontology or archaeology work. Slim chance of ever acquiring understanding.
Still, he talks as if he knows something.
Science doesn't work that way. Question marks do not work that way. Grammar doesn't work that way. Archaeology doesn't work that way. Evolution doesn't work that way. History doesn't work that way. Fossils don't work that way. Dirt doesn't work that way. Floods don't work that way. Idiots, however, work exactly this way.
If there was a flood, why would that mean they would all be found in the same places? I would assume that a global flood would mean dinosaur corpses would be carried all over the place by currents, not just stacked in "mass graves." Isn't it more likely that there are mass graves because famine or disease hit and they all died at once?
There is no such thing as "NTFS file system", there are simply bits on my hard drive.
There is no such thing as pizza, there are simply cheese on bread in a box with words on it.
There is no such thing as a computer, there are simply etched pieces of silicon inside plastic casings connected by metal wires soldered to a fiberglass board attached by plastic-insulated copper wires to peripherals inside a steel box.
There is no such thing as a cup, there are simply plastic with chocolate milk inside of it.
Except that geologists know what a fucking flood looks like (I used to have a great article detailing the sort of evidence a global flood WOULD leave, but I've sadly lost the link).
"He makes it sound as though we will find any sort of fossil in any layer of strata. "
Actually, fossils may become less and less important to the ToE as we improve our understanding of genetics.
They only show evidence of rapid burial, often in mass graves of millions of fossils, indicated the Biblical flood story is the most likely explanation for their existence.
Why biblical? Why wouldn't mass graves just indicate a local flood?
Um, Biblical? Even if we swallowed the rest, he has yet to prove it's the Biblical flood and not, say, the one from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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