Like say, Oil is a "fossil" fuel, but that has nothing to do with anything "prehistoric" per se
Oh, and do they ever feel kinda silly explaining to intelligent people that one day not so long ago we were living among giant carnivorous dinosaurs just like in the Flintstones?
2006-09-13 02:43:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
again, slickyboy
you have now convinced me you do not know the difference between coal and oil.............
2006-09-13 03:01:00 · update #1
Do evolutionist ever feel kinda silly explaining their theory when there's no intermediary fossils? seriously...
2006-09-13 04:10:42 · answer #1 · answered by LuMin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How long it takes to make a fossil has nothing to do with whether God created the world. Do you ever feel embarrassed saying that the universe was formed from nothing by nothing.
2006-09-13 02:56:04 · answer #2 · answered by » mickdotcom « 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
not at all, you might have to eat your fossillized hat on this one
see fossil hat from a mine
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i3/fossil_hat.asp
1) fossils may be made in decades... it takes a lot of water and a short time
2) under normal conditions an animal will be scavenged... it takes catastrophic burial and the right conditions to fossilize
look here for pictures of fossilized hats, sausages and a bad flour all recently fossilized from mines and not old at all. There have in fact been experiments in japan in putting wood in hot mineral springs and is takes few years and not even centuries to fossillize something... lots of water.. little time... a flood would do it
most fossils are remants of animals catastrophically buried during the flood of Noah
for a relly intersting fossil
see the Kamakazi Ithiasaur with a million years of rock layer from haed to middle??????I think not
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/images/v17/i3/p52_fossilHat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i3/fossil_hat.asp&h=271&w=360&sz=19&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=D08X2EjU5vW1tM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfossil%2Bhat%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
2006-09-13 02:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Do you ever get tired of asking the same question over and over, and ignoring that fact that you just don't like the answers?
2006-09-13 03:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by flyersbiblepreacher 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No! Because, those 'intelligent' people are all on our side. I feel so sorry for your side, how does it feel to keep bumping into things.
If evolution is correct then it should take millions of years for the evolution theory to be formed.
2006-09-13 02:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I have not found 1 intelligent atheist who can explain how life came from non-living material - How about you explain it all intelligent one!
2006-09-13 02:48:38 · answer #6 · answered by Gladiator 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well why does man feel like they have such great knowledge that they cant be wrong about how old they are? we have been wrong about plenty of other things
2006-09-13 02:45:59 · answer #7 · answered by holyghost130 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
evidently not. When god is on your side, I guess you never feel silly.
2006-09-13 03:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They refuse to open their minds. they think believing in silly things makes them holier.
2006-09-13 02:48:00 · answer #9 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"Coal: Evidence for a Young Earth"
Abstract:
Evolutionary theory requires millions of years in the formation of coal in order to afford time for the development of living organisms whose fossils are found in coal deposits. However, laboratory and field research has demonstrated that coal is formed rapidly and in vast quantities. These vast coal deposits are unsullied by other material. The conclusion is drawn that actual research indicates a young age to the Earth that contains such coalified materials.
Introduction
"If coal takes millions and millions of years of heat and pressure to form, how is it possible that creationists are teaching that the earth is only a few thousand years old?" This is a commonly asked question among individuals seeking answers about the age of the earth and the universe. Research has been done by several creation organizations, as well as independent scientists, in order to answer such questions. The evidence actually shows that coal does not take millions of years to form, as is commonly asserted. In fact, the formation of coal has been proven to be a rapid process that can be duplicated in modern laboratories in a matter of days - or even hours.
I. Rapid Formation
In order for coal to be formed, several factors must be present. Pressure, temperature, water, time, and some sort of vegetation are the key elements for the formation of coal. According to evolutionary theory, the slow accumulation and decomposition of vegetation living in past ages accounts for the coal seams. However, this theory can not answer why such large amounts of original vegetation without soil can be found in the areas that are now coal seams, or how these coal seams became so thick - some being over two hundred feet in depth.
Scientist Robert Gentry analyzed coalified wood found on the Colorado Plateau in order to determine how long it took for coal to form.1 By treating coal with epoxy and slicing it into thin sheets, Dr. Gentry was able to examine tiny, compressed radiohalos found in the coal. Radiohalos are discolorations in the coal, ejected by radioactive elements in the centers (such as uranium).
According to evolutionary theory, in order for these halos to form, several processes must have occurred. First, water-saturated logs must have been laid down in several different geologic formations, including the Triassic, Jurassic and Eocene layers. Later, uranium solutions infiltrated the water-saturated logs, and uranium decay products were collected at tiny sites within the logs. The radioactive decay from the tiny particles ejected spherical radiation damage regions around those sites, thus producing halos. Finally, a pressure event on the site of the formations compressed the logs as well as the radioactive halos within them. However, because coal is not a malleable substance, scientists know that these logs had not turned to coal at the time the compression event occurred. This points to a quick burial and coalification of the logs – rather than a long time period.2
II. Decay Ratios
When the ratio of uranium decay to its decay product (lead) is analyzed, the conclusion is drawn that all the logs within the various geologic formations were buried at the same time. The high lead-to-uranium ratios admit the possibility that both the initial uranium infiltration and the coalification could possibly have occurred within the past several thousand years.3
III. Polystrate Fossils
The presence of "polystrate" trees (trees petrified or coalified in an upright position) point to a rapid coalification process. One of the most commonly known polystrate trees is found at Katherine Hill Bay, Australia. This fossilized tree can be seen extending over twelve feet, through several sedimentary layers. According to evolutionary theory the different sedimentary layers took hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate. However, we know this is impossible since the tree would have decomposed long before the sediments would have had time to accumulate. Rather, this tree is testimony to the catastrophic and rapid burial that must have taken place.
IV. Unsullied Deposits
Finally, coal seams such as those found in the Powder River Basin of Gillette, Wyoming, ranging from 150 to 200 feet in depth, point to a rapid coalification process. "These coal seams run remarkably thick and unsullied by other material. Usually, unwanted sediments, such as clay, washes over a deposit before coal seams can get very thick. This leaves scientists with the baffling question of how the seams get so massive and still remain undiluted by influxes of clay and other impurities before they thicken."4
Conclusion
The answer can be found in the Biblical account of Noah's Flood. The Biblical description of the fountains of the great deep breaking up gives strong reference to volcanic activity in the pre-Flood basins.5 This would have provided several of the key factors need for the production of coal, along with an explanation of how the process could have occurred at such a rapid pace.
Although the coalification process has been used in the past to support theories of an aged universe, research done by leading creation scientists reveals that this process actually supports creation teachings of a young Earth. Physical evidence demonstrates that the coalification process must have occurred rapidly, rather than over vast time periods.
2006-09-13 02:47:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋