How do Creationists explain fossils?

Question

fossils aren't bones, they are impressions of bones in rocks, saying fossils are bones is not a satisfactory answer

1. fossils aren't bones, they are impressions of bones in rocks, saying fossils are bones is not a satisfactory answer

2. God and evolution, even creation and evolution (creation through evolution) are not mutually exclusive

Answer 1

If you believe in god you don't need to worry about logic or facts.

Answer 2

Fossils are just buried bones
BUT,if you are referring to dinosaurs, I like Omni Magazine's possible explanation in the Quantum Theory section: The 6 days God took to form everything weren't literal 24 hour periods, so thousands of years could go by and this explains the rise and fall of dinosaurs, especially outside of not finding human remains as old as/alongside the dinosaur fossils. This is also how, to my mind, I can put together the dinosaurs and the Bible. I do believe in Creation. But I guess it is just another question I plan to ask God when I die. One day to God can be like a blink of an eye, or a million years. Good question though.

Answer 3

Creationists think that they are simply rocks that have formed into certain shapes. People see what they want to see, and some scientists want to see them as old bones. These scientists construct theories as to why they have to be bones and people believe them. But these are only theories and there is no proof (or at least none that a creationist will accept) that they really are the bones of things that used to be alive. They believe that God put them there to test people's beliefs.

Answer 4

This website is typical of the Creationists' pathetic attempts to discredit the importance of how the fossil record supports evolution ==>http://www.wwco.com/religion/believe/believe_12.html

Answer 5

Why are creationists called creationists? Because they believe everything's created by God instead of derived from some matter that was there before according to the mass conservation principle. How do they explain fossils? "God did it." (= God created it.)

Answer 6

I had a friend that belived in the creation theory and I asked her how would she explain the fossils then, and she said "Well why do you think God put them there?". I threw my hands up and walked away!

Answer 7

Creationists and other religious fanatics have the same argument for anything that seems to disagree with their beliefs: God did it. It's basically the equivalent of "Because I said so." That's why it's called faith... you CAN'T prove it, that's where the faith comes in. Science relies on hypothesis and data, two things that are frowned upon by most Bible thumpers.

Answer 8

Whats' to explain? Heat; pressure and water, and whalah!! FOSSIL!!! It can be done in the lab in a matter of hours!

Answer 9

exactly what do you want to know. buried animals and bones.....big deal.....that still happens. Oh....and don't forget about the "flood" of Noah.....ok....here goes....birds can fly....grounded animals can't....so walkers and crawlers are the first to get burried.....birds....last.....because they fly.....simple observation......no need for evolution in that.....oh....don't forget the circular reasoning you folks like to use.....how old is the fossil....it depends on which layer it's found in.....well, how do you tell how old the layer is....oh....by the fossils you find in them....um....HELLOOOO.......let's get real here.

Answer 10

I like that answer Mike. I don't think there's much debate about fossils, only their age and classification that are questioned.

Answer 11

Here we go.

They maintain that the fossils aren't really millions of years old but actually a lot, LOT younger. Great catastrophes swept over the Earth, as told by our ancestors through their stories of the Gods waging battles and the sky being filled with lightning bolts and the mountains cracking because the wind was blowing so hard.

For the dinosaur fossils, they believe that these are actually the dragons of ancient lore. They believe this because every culture from every corner from around the world has stories of dragons, or great lizards or similar beasts. Sure, this might just be those wacky ancestors coming up crazy, magnificent stories to entertain themselves.... but damn, they sure did know what they looked like....

Mesopatamian plate:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/snakes.jpg
Found in Ghana, along with a lot of other tiny statues of animals. The animals were sculpted so well that zoologists could immediately identify all of them, except for this one:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/ashanti.jpg
Discovered in Asia Minor after a mudslide, along with a bunch of other artifacts:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/terracottastatue2sm.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/terracottastatuesm.jpg
Found somewhere else, I forgot:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/ancientslatesm-1.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/nilemosaicth.jpg
Part of a mosaic discovered around the Nile, it was considered one of the wonders of the second century world. The Greek letters at the upper left translate to crocodile-leapord.
In Arizona, it appears to be a sauropod:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/dinoglyph3-1.jpg
South Africa:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/bushmanland2.jpg
Nevada, I believe:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/wall.jpg
Some other old place:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/pterosaurth.jpg
Utah:
http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/?action=view¤t=DragonsCave2.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch16
Cambodia, a stegosaur:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/buddhisttemplesandstonesm.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/buddhisttemplesandstone2sm.jpg
Some bishop's grave site/church/temple:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/bishop_eryops.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/bishop_behemoths.jpg

These catastrophes really caused some major upheavels, something that geologists haven't thought about when calculating the age of these geologic layers. Everything appears much older than it really is.