The Fossil Record: Proof of Noah's Flood or Evolution

is the fossil record really stacked in a way that proves life evolved on earth over millions of unseen years or does the fossil record provide evidence that the world was covered by a massive flood in Noah's time just thousands of years ago actually the fossil record does not show increasingly complex life emerging over the millennia what it shows is a record of death in the order that the creatures were buried during the worldwide flood think about it for a minute Genesis 7 verse 11 says that the Fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were open creating floods and tidal waves that were unimaginable the Bible says the flood waters increased upon the earth for 150 days until all the high hills under heaven were covered with over 20 feet of water this process successively buried all creatures outside the ark based on where they lived as the flood waters prevail how smart they were their means and speed of mobility and their body density this is precisely why the fossil record generally shows the shallow water marine creatures buried in the lower layers then as the ocean waters rose higher and higher the suffocated fish were buried followed by an afib ian's reptiles mammals and then birds dr. Karl Warner spent 17 years travelling to museums and dig sites around the globe photographing thousands of original fossils and the actual fossil layers where they were found his research revealed a lack of evidence for evolution theory including no transitional fossils and clear evidence that shows animals have remained the same over the supposed millions of years of evolution we went to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh we filmed that the Smithsonian the American Museum of Natural History we filmed that the Chicago Field Museum all of the greatest museums of the world basically and photographed their fossil collections Museum Victoria in Melbourne the natural Institute in Brussels we filmed that New Zealand Natural History Museum in Auckland and the red path Museum in Montreal Harvard Peabody Museum the California Academy of Sciences Saturday etc we went to 60 museums and Debby took 60 thousand photographs Wow at the dinosaur dig sites we found examples from every major animal phyla living today buried with the dinosaurs and these animals look the same say that again it's incredible at the dinosaur sites we found fossils examples of modern animals from every major animal phyla buried with the dinosaurs and they look the same you started out not knowing if there would be any zero and you found them in every group in the same strata with the dinosaurs yeah and it's worse than that not only did we find us four animals than for the plants we found examples from every major plant division of plants living today buried alongside the dinosaurs fossilized and they look the same as a modern plants so you photograph fossils from dig sites and museums and you realize that modern animals live with Dinosaurs that seems too simple you know Don there is a rule in science called the rule of simplicity or parsimony or oskins raiser that says the simplest explanation for a series of problems is usually the correct explanation so yes it is very simple I love this phrase simply profound what you have found is profound by its simplicity that here are these animals that are just like they are today and they were there then therefore evolution didn't happen according to the fossils that I look at evolution did not occur the plants look the same the animals look the same sure some of the animals went extinct like dinosaurs pterosaurs but extinction is not evolution the animal fauna has not changed look what he found about bats scientists have found over 1,000 fossil bats now these some of these fossils are beautifully preserved full fossils of bats even showing the wing membranes the gut contents etc if evolution is true you would expect to find not only bats but a ground mammal similar to a mouse slowly changing over millions of years into a bat there should be many many steps if you find a thousand bats you would expect to find thousands and thousands of each of these steps and how many have been found zero no ancestors for bats Wow over 1,000 bats in museums and not a single transitionary fossil leading to bats they just show up completely formed wouldn't you expect that after uncovering over a thousand bats that at least a few pre bats would be found the same has been said by evolutionists for several other creatures leading dinosaur expert dr. wife Chappell wrote this about dinosaur ancestors for my reading of the fossil record of dinosaurs no direct ancestors have been discovered for any dinosaur species alas my list of dinosaur II and ancestors is an empty one Wow it's almost like a divine designer just put them here all fully formed just like the Bible says consider pterosaurs massive flying reptiles with wingspans sometimes over 40 feet that could likely only fly in the pre-flood world dr. vile curator of the famous Jura museum in Germany said yes I must say we know only little about the evolution of pterosaurs the ancestors are not known when the pterosaurs first appear in the geological record they were completely very perfect they're perfect parasols after finding so many specimens incomplete form shouldn't some predecessors have been found by now if museums have over 1000 fossilized bats and many pterosaurs why haven't they found any fossils that have been classified as pre bats or pre pterosaurs why are they always found incomplete form where are the millions of transitional fossils that should exist if evolution theory is true why don't we see a reasonably smooth continuum among all living creatures or in the fossil record or both even Charles Darwin said as by evolution theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed why don't we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth and why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links geology has shortly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain and this is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory Darwin expected that these challenges would be resolved after more research was conducted but today 150 years and millions of fossils later the proof still doesn't exist when the famous dr. Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural History was asked why evolutionary transitions were not included in his book titled evolution Patterson said I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book if I knew of any fossil or living I would certainly have included them you say that I should at least show a photo of the fossil from which each type organism was derived I will lay it on the line there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument Wow after working with thousands of fossils for over 16 years and one of the largest natural history museums in the world he makes a statement like this even the two leading supposedly transitional fossils that are used in school textbooks today are falling apart the Archaeopteryx supposedly shows the transition between dinosaurs and birds but now leading experts regarded as just a bird paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an Earthbound feathered dinosaur but it's not it is a bird a perching bird and no amount of paleo Babel is going to change that Archaeopteryx was further disqualified as an evolutionary ancestor for birds when scientists found a crow sized bird and extinct four winged birds in rock layers designated to be below those containing Archaeopteryx next their supposed evolutionary fish-like Tiktaalik typically shown in textbooks as a 375 million year old fossil that was on its way to progressing into a land dwelling creature sometimes the coelacanth is also shown in this same lineup supposedly living about the same timeframe now however both of these have been ejected out of the evolutionary lineup evolutionists used to think that tick alex strong front fins did most of the work to pull this transitional fish up onto land leaving the hind legs to evolve later but now after more investigation of the pelvis and fins the discoverers of Tiktaalik have developed updated illustrations showing how it used its strong pelvic structure for paddling even more amazing is the fact that scientists announced in the 2010 nature journal that they had found footprints of a four-legged land creature in Poland that are supposedly ten million years older than take Talent so if Tiktaalik was supposedly the ancestor of land creatures how could land creature fossils sit ten million years earlier in the rock layers than their ancestor there goes to cowlick as a clear transitional fossil yet it's still found in school textbooks today silicon's have also been used for promoting evolution because their fins look like they were becoming arms and legs but all of this changed in 1938 when a museum curator in South Africa found a living one stacked up with a bunch of other fish on a fishing dock they've since found a lot more of these fish you can even go swimming with them near the Comoros Islands so much for that sea to land transition next there's dinosaurs when we look at the dinosaur fossil record we see that they were buried furiously rapidly and simultaneously oftentimes found fleeing in groups even leaving their youth behind take this massive bone bed and Hilde Canada thousands of centrist ORS were catastrophic Lee buried over an entire square mile or this one in China where thousands of different kinds of dinosaurs were simultaneously buried in a single 980 foot long ravine there are hundreds of dinosaur bone beds all the world including the US where the Morrison Formation covers 13 states and 700,000 square miles thousands of torn apart dinosaurs are buried here in hundreds of mass graves with many found in the classic death pose with their necks arch back choking as they died museum signs everywhere even admit they died in a watery catastrophe is a worldwide flood the best explanation for this let's drill down on just one of these massive bone beds in Wyoming world over a million dinosaur bones have been buried over an 80 acre area this is a Upper Cretaceous sedimentary deposit and what we have here is a what's called a bone bed it's a accumulation of bones that's about a meter thick a little less than a meter and in this meter we find the bones present as it graded bit with little bones at the top and bigger bones at the bottom these these animals had to die and then their carcasses had to have time to rot so we're talking days or weeks or months during which time the bones and tissues were either eaten away or rotted away and then the bones that remained were deposited instantaneously in in this environment because they're in a graded bed with big bones at the bottom and then the bones at the top and you can see that here the big bones are all down at the bottom and when they start digging up here they start to find smaller bones so that condition requires a sorting process it can only take place during a catastrophic in placement we hear a lot about transitional forms what's what's the real story there scientists have been able to lay out some forms they think are transitional and some of them are very interesting some even challenging but they are the exceptions to the rule the rule is there are no transitional fossils and what we find in the fossil record and contra to Darwin's hopes this is the rule is that a form exists in the fossil record it basically stays unchanged and it disappears from the fossil record without having been changed that's got to mean something besides evolution because we don't ever see changes from this form into this form in in the rocks themselves so it's coming from somewhere else it's it's a it's a paradigm that's being imposed on the data rather than the data is providing the paradigm so I think it's very easy for me to be a creationist just based on my understanding of the complexity of life forms and when we look at the fossil record we can see that the complexity is all there from the beginning and this this begs the question of where did all this complex that he come from it's one thing to have faith I have faith that God was the creator but that's substantiated by what I see around me to say I have faith that evolution produced this when I can't even see how it could have happened there are hundreds and hundreds of similar mass graveyards around the world that have been catastrophic alia posited by water scientific journals have now even documented 14 fresh bio organic materials from dinosaur bones that simply can't be millions of years old while doing his research dr. Warner noted if evolution was not true and if animals did not change over time I should be able to find modern appearing plants and modern appearing animals in the dinosaur rock layers and this is in fact what I found in fact dr. Warner has documented four hundred and thirty-two mammal species in the dinosaur fossil layers but after visiting sixty museums around the world he did not find a single complete mammal skeleton from the dinosaur layers displayed at any of these museums some mammals are even found in the stomach's of dinosaurs mixed in among dinosaurs dr. Warner found all of today's reptile groups as well as birds including Paris owls penguins ducks loons albatross cormorants and sandpipers how does this work if dinosaurs supposedly evolved into birds as evolutionists claim something is not lining up with evolution theory the latest findings continue to confirm the recent demise of most of the dinosaurs by a massive fly consider this three thousand pound notice or fossil just found in Canada evolutionists date this fossil at a hundred and ten million years old but how did everything stay intact for so long skin pigment guts scales full bony armor keratin even its last meal was found in its stomach paleo biologist Jacob Venter said the dinosaur is so well preserved that it might as well have been walking around a couple of weeks ago I've never seen anything like this rather than being scavenged after death this dinosaur was rapidly entombed by Noah's Flood just thousands of years ago if the Genesis account is true and we believe that it is we would expect the fossil record to bear out a wide variety of various kinds of animals that lived in a pre-flood world much different than today animals that were catastrophic aliy buried quickly and in many cases torn apart graded and sorted buried with marine life mummified unfossilized and discovered with many bio organic materials that simply can't last for millions of years we would expect to find massive bone beds all over the world and covering hundreds of thousands of square miles like the Morrison Formation we would also expect to find that even leading transitional examples like Archaeopteryx Tiktaalik and coelacanth would not hold up over time as evidence of evolution download our mobile app for this video and others that address the key evolution teachings in public school

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Published: Tue Mar 20 2018