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EVIDENCE #9
The rock strata finds (layers of buried fossils) are better explained by a
universal flood than by evolution.
The Rock Strata is better explained by a universal flood than by gradual
normal death of organisms over millions of years recorded in the rock as
evolutionists assert. A large flood is necessary for the formation of
fossils in the first place. Fossils require quick and tremendous pressure
to be formed. Without this, a carcass not only could not form a fossil over
time but would be eaten by scavengers or destroyed by bacteria. The
circulating water of a flood (along with gravity) would cause smaller
organisms to naturally bury lower and more mobile organisms, with ability
to temporarily avoid the flood, would be buried close to the top for this
reason. Such things as fish, which are already low in the sea, would also
naturally be buried low. A universal flood has been well documented
historically as having occurred. Evolutionists have used fossils in rock
sediments to say that simpler organisms were at the bottom of the sediment
and more complex ones were at the top. They have ignored the great
inconsistencies in the finds for which a flood could account but not the
evolutionary process. In fact, in some strata, a tree can be seen
protruding through several layer which supposedly formed over millions of
years.
1. The columns in the rock strata are actually made up from different
regions of the world. The full rock strata is found nowhere in the
world. It is made up of columns superimposed from different regions
all over the world. The whole strata is 100 miles thick but there is
no locality more than one mile and even this locality is the Grand
Canyon. ([18], p.35)
2. The rock strata consists of a plethora of contradictions and
reversals. Often the strata that is supposed to be old is found on top
and vice versa. Often they are horizontal with one another. ([18],
p.35)
3. "Although sometimes there may be evidences of physical disturbance
(leading to faulting and holding) in these `upside down' areas, it is
quite often true that they can only be revealed by an `unnatural
sequence of fossils,' which means that the fossils are not found in
the order presupposed by their evolutionary relationship." ([19],
p.54)
4. Evolutionist Walter E. Lammerts reports, "The actual percentage of
area showing this progressive order from the simple to the complex is
surprisingly small. Indeed formations with very complex forms of life
are often found resting directly on the basic granites. Furthermore, I
have in my own files a list of over 500 cases that attest to a reverse
order, that is, simple forms of life resting on top of more advanced
types." ([19], p.54)
5. "In order to account for these numerous exceptions to the supposed
universal order of evolutionary development as revealed in the
fossiliferous rocks, theory has to be piled on top of theory. Thus,
the missing ages indicated by a disconformity are explained by a
supposed regional uplift and period of erosion. An inverted order of
fossils is explained by a regional uplift followed by a horizontal
thrust fault followed by a period of erosion, and so forth. One is
reminded of Occam's Razor, the principle that cautions against any
unnecessary multiplication of hypotheses to explain a given set of
phenomena." ([19], p.54)
6. "...in various parts of the earth there are fossils of trees that
protrude through several layers which indicates that these layers were
deposited and formed almost simultaneously and not over millions of
years..." ([22], p.28)
7. Rock strata is far better explained by a universal flood rather than
millions of years.
8. "The usual order of deposition of fossils (as noted before, there are
many, many exceptions to this usual order) would be such that the
simpler fossils would be deposited near the bottom, and the more
complex fossils near the top of each local geographic column. The
hydrodynamic sorting action of moving water is quite efficient, so
that each stratum would tend to contain an assemblage of fossils of
similar shapes and sizes. Simple organisms, dwelling at the lower
elevations, would normally also be buried at the lower elevations.
More complex animals, larger and more mobile, and dwelling at higher
levels, would obviously tend to be buried, if caught by the sediments
at all, only at higher elevations. Very few birds, higher mammals, and
especially men, would be overtaken and buried, but would usually float
on the surface until consumed by scavengers or simply decomposed."
([18], p.40) For this reason as well fossil fuels could not have been
created as evolutionists state they were; the animals would decompose
before they would be buried over years upon years.
9. A catastrophe such as a universal flood is necessary for fossils to
form. "Fossils of animals, for example, are formed when animals are
buried quickly and under tremendous pressure so that their bones or
imprint are preserved in rock. If living things are not buried quickly
and under enormous pressure, they will not be fossilized. Most of the
many millions of fossils in the world are found in rock which has been
affected by water, and, therefore, the fossils of these animals were
formed as a result of the animals being buried suddenly and quickly
under tremendous water pressure." ([22], p.27)
10. An evolutionist geologist wrote, "A carcass after death is almost sure
to be torn apart or devoured by carnivores or other scavengers, and if
it escapes these larger enemies, bacteria insure the decay of all but
the hard parts, and even they crumble to dust after a few years if
exposed to the weather. If buried under moist sediment or standing
water, however, weathering is prevented, decay is greatly reduced, and
scavengers cannot disturb the remains. For these reasons burial soon
after death is the most important condition favoring
preservation...Water-borne sediments are so much more widely
distributed than all other kinds, that they include the great majority
of all fossils. Flooded streams drown and bury their victims in the
shifting channel sands or in the mud of the valley floor." ([19],
p.63)
11. "For example, there would naturally be a tendency for those sediments
and organisms which occupied the lowest elevations before the flood to
be buried deepest by the flood. Thus, simple marine organisms and
marine sediments would tend to be buried deepest, then fishes and more
complex marine creatures, then reptiles and amphibians, then mammals,
and finally, man. Another factor controlling to some extent the order
of deposition of the sediments and the organisms contained in them
would be that of the relation between the specific gravity and the
hydrodynamic drag. Each particle of material, as well as the remains
of each animal, would tend to fall by gravity out of the aqueous
mixture in which it was being carried. This tendency would be resisted
by the hydrodynamic drag force of the water acting upward on it. The
latter depends on the state of turbulence of the water and also on the
shape of the object, being greatest for objects of complex shape and
least for objects of streamlined shape. Thus there would be a tendency
for organisms of high density and simple structure to settle out most
rapidly and, therefore, to be buried deepest. This factor of
hydrodynamic selectivity is often highly efficient and would tend to
cause rather highly sorted sediments and fossils, with organisms of
similar size and shape being buried together. A third factor which
would have an important effect, so far as living organisms were
concerned, would be their relative abilities to escape the onrushing
flood waters by retreating to higher ground. The simpler, less mobile,
smaller creatures would thus be caught and trapped first, whereas
higher animals, and especially man, would often be able to retreat to
the very highest points of the region before being inundated. This too
would mean that most men and higher animals would never be buried at
all in sediments, but would float on the surface of the waters until
decomposed or destroyed by scavenger fish." ([22], p.73)
12. The flood would have to have been a universal one since local floods
would not have produced the pressure that would be needed. ([15],
p.27)
13. An event of a universal flood is accounted for "...by hundreds of
reflections of this...great event handed down in the legends and
historical records of practically all nations and tribes in the
earth." ([19], p.65)
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