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Author Topic:   Fossil Record Mistakes and Why They Don't Hurt Evolution
TryingToBeLogical
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06-12-2014 6:44 PM


I'm new here and all, but this has been digging into me for a while. I just wanted to go over some of the more famous talking points about the fossil record on the creationism side and then show why they don't actually do anything to the ToE.
Let's start with the 'vertical whale'. Despite the name, this widely-known ancient whale fossil is actually about 40 to 50 degrees off its horizontal axis, and was found buried in the strata. Also, despite claims that it stretched through multiple strata layers (as evidence for the Noachian Flood), it was actually parallel to the strata formations! The strata had been folded into a new angle with the skeleton inside; thus, the odd angle of the fossil. Source material originated here; Ackerman, P. D., 1986. It's a Young World After All, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, pp. 81-83.
Then, the supposed falsification of the Dinos-to-birds theory with the discovery of a hadrosaur with skin intact, but no feathers, and buried in strata along garfish and turtles, in what appeared to have initially been water (again, support for the Noachian Flood). It was no surprise to scientists, though, since hadrosaur skin had been discovered intact by 1998! Furthermore, nobody actually thinks HADROSAURS were the ancestors of birds. The Saurischian dinos are theorized to have evolved into birds. Finally, and this may be a bit of a shocker, it's actually no surprise we found this one in water with garfish and turtles. Hadrosaurs are usually found in ancient riverbeds, simply because they were inclined to stay near water, and garfish and turtles have been around just as long as dinosaurs! Source for this claim; Vision Forum, Inc., 2003. Creation expeditions team discovers giant duck-billed dinosaur: Home-school paleontologists strike pay-dirt again (press release, 22 July).
These two debunkings are just the beginning. If anyone has a supposed anomaly in the fossil record, I'd be happy to dig up the facts and see just what they say.

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