Do creationists know what fossils are?

Question

I'll quote comedian Lewis Black.
"Anytime someone tells me that the earth is only a few thousand years old, I pull a fossil out of my pocket and throw it over their head."

Seriously, how can you think the world was made in a week and that the earth is only a few thousand years old? Why don't you go out and try digging for awhile? Eventually you are going to find some fossils. And NO they aren't a hoax that someone planted there to test your faith!

Just to preempt such a nonsense answer: what possible reason would god have to fake evolution by putting fossils there? That makes NO SENSE.

WHOisgod71 - while I see your point, there is also the fact that they keep preaching this nonsense and some how convincing people that these fairytales are grounded in reality. When you see that these people are trying to get this garbage taught in schools, should we just sit back and ignore it?

Answer 1

I understand what you're saying -- I believe in the theory of evolution. But you do realize that people are just going to say God put it there in the beginning? As fossils -- not as ancient creatures imprinted or encased in stone.

Answer 2

Like someone has mentioned on here already, it takes a very short time to create a fossile. It has been proven that carbon dating fails. So I will not go into such a thing as a million years.

According to the Bible the Earth and all life, plant, animal and human, were created within a six day period. The Sabbath was created on the seventh day.

Now farther on in the Book of Genesis the earth was destroyed by a flood because of all the evil in it. There was more than heavy rain involved in the flood. The ground also released water that contributed to the flood. THE FOUNTAINS ALSO OF THE DEEP AND THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN WERE STOPPED, AND THE RAIN FROM HEAVEN WAS RESTRAINED. It probably worked like an earthquake, but blew out water instead. That would explain why the fossiles are found underground.

The earth was created in literally 7 days. The beginning of Genesis tells us that. It says that THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY, THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SECOND DAY, ETC. The last time I checked a day consists of 1 evening and 1 day, not a thousand years or so.

It is a fact that the earth be only several thousand years old and still have fossiles.

Answer 3

These are people who take the bible literally, and most likely have not read it all the way through it. It says God created the world in 6 days, and rested on the 7th. Realize that the old testament was written over 4 thousand years ago. For people the had the comprehension of a eight year old today. If you read into the bible, later it says. To God a day is of a Thousand years, and a thousand year is of but one day. Later it says. If a sparrow was to take a grain of sand from the tallest mountain, fly to the moon, and return, remove another grain, and so on. When the mountain is gone, and replaced on the moon. This would be one day to God.

In other words God is timeless. The Earth is Billions of years old. That's a fact. The Big bang theory is the 1st thing ,in the 1st chapter, of the 1st book, of the 1st testament. GENESIS. Also note that those 6 days follow to the same order of happenings, of how scientist believe the Universe, Earth,Animal, and human life has developed over time. Just not as detailed.

Answer 4

The existence of fossils doesn't prove the earth is old, since fosilization can happen very rapidly under the right conditions.

What's more important is WHAT is fossilized rather than merely the existence of fossils. We rarely find fossils of modern species. If there was a worldwide flood that is responsible for all the fossils we find, why do we not find many fossils of modern species? Did god selectively decide to fossilize just the now extinct species, and allow the bodies of species that are still around to rot?

Answer 5

Hey I say that there were dinosaurs. I have no problem admitting that. Now what are we talkin about here? Macro or Micro Evolution?
Micro evolution, I know to be true. I think everybody has heard the stories about the grey and white moths in the polluted city.
Macro.... Nah... Sorry I still dont see how a lizard can turn into a rhino in acouple million years. Again if we came from monkeys...why are there still monkeys? I guess we were just in the gifted class. Whatever.
The seven day thing. Okay I'm gonna stick with my guns, which really wont make any difference to you because you chose not to believe what I say away. But the Bible does refer to days as thousands of years to God. Maybe the seven day thing was symbolism, hell Maybe God did it in seven actual days. I really dont care. Dinos yeah they were here, yeah they died, and yeah they still have their fossilized bones in the ground.
(BTW could you people PLEASE stop using the idiotic rantings of the EXTREME fundamentalists, I know that the devil didnt put them there and anyone who is not blinded by his or her charasmatic hellfire preaching christian cult leader does too...)
I know that scientists have found that the Dinos died out from the world making a drastic temperature/weather change, maybe it was Noah's flood, maybe not. I dont really know, and nobody will ever know. I wish I did.

Answer 6

The writing of the book of Genesis was done in a style of writing at the time called allegorical. It was not meant to be taken literally. It was inspired (by God) and written to prove the point that God designed and created this Earth for us--not necessarily in seven DAYS as we know them.

I know and believe in the existance of fossils--I own several. Time is relative. What I would like to see is a series of fossils that exists to show the one species of life has turned into another--that is a fun challenge to darwinism as no such proof exists!

God does not measure life in time as we know it, for he has always been and will always be. Death--the time limit of life is a consequence of the sin of man and NOT part of God's origional plan (also in Genesis).

Please give the Bible another chance and don't take it so literally--it is a guide and a series of revelations of the One True God. Just be sure to read the historical background and facts about the author before you read each book.

May the grace (unbelievable stuff!!) of God be with you.

Answer 7

Ah, more indications that Creationist contortion still goes on, trying to bend in any direction that will allow a literal reading of an allegorical book.

Questions like this are important to continue putting scientific truth in front of people. I agree, facts are an important thing to put in front of people and, unfortunately, some people will always reject facts that contradict belief.

I have visited the "answersingenesis" site, based on others' posts and find it to be as selective in its readings of science as many religious people, particularly Fundamentalist Christians [sic] are in their reading of their bible -- only understanding it up to the point where proof is presented, and then rejecting the proof.

The objects that are "fossil-like" are only that: fossil-LIKE. They would easily be recognized as not being fossils, which are not only dated through carbon-testing, but on the rock strata in which they are found.

Why is there a war on science? My father was a scientist and a Christian and never had these qualms or issues at all. He knew where to draw the line between faith and reality.

Keep up the good fight.

Answer 8

I used to paintings as a naturalist at a park that was once widespread for gathering fossilized shark tooth. We provided an schooling software approximately fossils and we might honestly get plenty of Christian faculties that might come for this software. Some of them might get mad on the naturalists if we recounted the precise age of the fossils (which was once 10 to twenty-five million years ancient). One instructor advised me that they believed the fossils have been left from the Great Flood and that is how they defined it to the kids. I ultimately began skipping the entire age matter at the same time I was once operating with the Christian faculties.

Answer 9

OK. I'll try to answer this one more time (the questions to dumb-as-a-rock, bible-thumping creationists have been asked hundreds of times here... you guys are boring us to death!).

I know from perusing your answers that you don't believe in God. That's your prerogative. Can I assume that since you don't "believe" in God, you don't "believe" in anything you can't prove?

You see, that's the Catch-22. If you can't PROVE that there's no God, you have to BELIEVE it. Imagine that... you have beliefs about God. your God is called "no-God". You apparently believe this fervently.

Uncomfortable yet?

Of course you can fall back on the tired atheistic rebuttal that you have no belief one way or the other. But if that's the case, why would you spend your valuable time on Yahoo Answers proselytizing with evangelical fervor about your No-God?

I'd think the subject of God would be a yawn to a true non-believer...kind of like asking how much you care about the Easter Bunny or the Loch Ness Monster.

In the beginning there was Something. Nothing cannot beget Something. Everything we know derived (evolved, self-selected, mutated...whatever) from that Something. I call my Something GOD.

What do you call your Something?

Answer 10

True. Not sure why people can't understand the facts of evolution. Unfortunatly many people are brainwashed when they are kids and therefore are taught not to accept any other methods of thought. The mind is a terrible thing to waste (like the blacks say, NAACP).