Creationists: How do you explain fossils?

Question

I know it's a pointed question and I'm not trying to bait you. But personally, how do you explain this "evidence" that keeps turning up that suggests a world older than you think and so vastly different from what we know today? Does it cast doubt? How do you think they got there, what do you think they really are?

Answer 1

As a Christian Pastor I have no problem with fossils or the skeletal remains of dinosaurs.
The Bible is the recorded History of the Jewish people and is about 5,700 years old.
It is not a History of the world. It is strictly a History of attempts by GOD to reconcile man and Himself.

Answer 2

Not so vastly different.The Bible tells of behemoth.That there were creatures other than those of today is not anything that would conflict with Christianity.The notion that a ten foot long scorpion could have gotten enough oxygen out of an atmosphere that was not already dominated by a vast land based plant structure is what I find hard to believe.The Bible tells us there was water above the firmament as well as below.If there had been an encasement of water like a shell just outside the atmosphere and a much lower gravity this would explain the higher concentration of oxygen and the ability of fauna to assume such grand dimensions.Science says this is not so yet we have remains of insects so large that they could not possibly extract enough oxygen without lungs to live.

Answer 3

Note to Jeff C. Evolution only accounts for living things, and so your question about atomic structure and inorganic compounds is entirely irrelevant. The '90+' elements you talk about were created in the nuclear fusion in supernovas, there is no scientific debate about this. The structure of electron orbitals is mathematical, balancing the attraction between the positive nucleus and repulsion from the negative electrons themslefs. Your answer clearly states that you have no real knowledge of science, even GCSE chemistry answers these questions.
As to your comment about fossil records, there have been fossils of organisms with stub wings etc, but one has to bear in mind that the fossil record is TINY in comparison to all the species that have existed over time, as there are a very specific number of ways in which a fossil can be created, and certain things, such as insects are very unlikely to be fossilised at all, as they have no skeleton.

Answer 4

This answer is slightly at a tangent, because I'm not a creationist.

But it's interesting (and ironic) to note that the mainstream evolutionary branch of the scientific community is equally unable to explain the fossil record, as current theory stands. It represents something of an embarrassment actually, which is the reason that scientists will tend not to use it as an argument against creationists (despite the fact that - as you point out - it seems to be a bit of a clincher).

The problem is that the fossil record does not provide good evidence for a process of gradual evolution from one species to another, and indeed provides increasingly strong evidence against it, as there is a distinct and un-get-roundable lack of transitional forms between the recognised species.

There is an interesting & thought-provoking article here:
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18132/article_detail.asp
from someone who is in neither camp - although he definitely has an agenda of his own...

Answer 5

Scientifically fossils are the remains of an animal or plant preserved from an earlier era inside a rock or other geological deposit, often as an impression or in a petrified state. There's nothing they can doubt about that.

Answer 6

Fossils are bonesof animals from different ages

Answer 7

Fossils are found almost exclusively in sedimentary rock and the processes that form sedimentary rock-erosion etc. take eons of time and definitely a lot longer than 6000 years.

Answer 8

Right, listen, up doubter, fossils are nothing more than fakes put there by pesky Victorians. I used to go to work on a dinosaur before I lost my job at the quarry but they are still handy round the home and I flew on an pterodactyl when I went on my hols.

Answer 9

It amazes me that these so called Creationists hold Evolution to standards that if their God Theory was held to the same standards of proof, would fall flat on it's face during the first round. Evolution has a mountain of evidence to back it up and God Theory has squat. GOD THEORY - The accumulated myths and superstitions of your ancestors which have been dogmatized, institutionalized and then mounded into the colossal pile of crap they call ultimate truth.

Answer 10

maybe it was Gods attempt at a shabby chic kind of faux finish antiquing decorating idea gone bad and he made the earth Look older than it really is