DINOSAURS TIMELINE

fossil records

By: Polo, Vincent, Owen, Freya, Becky

WHat fossil records tell us

This article is about the different implications that we can conclude from fossil records. Fossils are important because they help place important events and places, history of life on Earth, and show accurate physical conditions from a time period we could not always visualize. This article deals with the idea of religious opinions compared to scientific opinions. It is important, as believers, we see through the “bad science” and look to our religion for answers and explanations. Misconceptions can be spread, about fossil records, by evolutionist scientists and fossil records, alongside the Bible, can provide evidences that can disprove these misconceptions.

the main idea

The writer of this article thinks Fossil record is important. The first sentence in the article is: “The fossil record is an archive showing the history of life on Earth. It includes related data”. He want to correct people's misconceptions about fossils and use Fossil record to say some alternative view.

evidence 1

The identification of the rock stratum where the fossil is located can give us an overview of the organisms in the biome at a certain time in the past, as well as a series of fossils that allow us to understand the evolution of organisms, the changes in their external characteristics during history.

evidence 2

Fossil preservation and occurrence. The preservation of abundant organisms, their remains, or evidence of their activities (such as tracks and burrows) is very difficult to explain using present-day processes (that is, in actualistic terms), particularly when we consider the nature of the fossiliferous deposit Abundance of mass mortality events throughout the record. Currently, paleontologists recognize that the majority of these deposits formed catastrophically. An example of this is the massive burial of dinosaur remains. Thousands of bones and complete skeletons have been discovered. Exquisite preservation of organisms. Complete articulated skeletons have been found as well as preserved soft body parts (for example, whale baleen; internal organs such as those in the Santana Formation fossilized fish; articulated shells in both clams and ostracods [tiny shrimplike crustaceans]). These parts would have decayed rapidly had they been exposed for long on the surface (on land or underwater). All point to rapid burial and/or rapid mineralization.

evidence 3

Appearance and distribution of fossil remains. Many types of data relating to the first occurrence of a fossil organism or group of organisms, and the subsequent distribution of those species in the record, support the biblical model well, and in turn present problems for an evolutionary interpretation. Record of animal activity: The presence of “ichnofossils” (that is, trace fossils such as trackways and burrows, larval cases, and reptile and bird eggs).This data is very valuable for the development of a depositional model since it means that, throughout the formation of the fossil record, some organisms remained alive and active. Even though this data implies that a certain length of time has elapsed, it also suggests that abundant sediment input is needed, as well as rapid burial processes. In addition, the abundance of some of these remains (for example, thousands of dinosaur tracks and eggs in many different parts of the world), as well as the nature of the sediments in which they are preserved, suggest unusual, possibly stressed, environmental conditions that would correspond to a worldwide catastrophic scenario.

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