what do fossils show?

Question

what do the things inside fossils suggest?

Answer 1

The fossils show that there was a catastrohic flood - hence billions of dead things all over the world buried in rock layers laid down by water.

They absolutely do not show evolution.
Darwin expected that subsequently found fossils would include missing links. The missing links are still missing. The fossil record shows stasis. The fossil plants and creatures alleged millions of years old are identical to ones alive today. (Except for the extinct ones of course.) No evidence of anything changing into anything else.

Check the facts for yourself! Everyone has the same fossil evidence to come to their own conclusion.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/fossils.asp

Answer 2

I'm sorry chas, you're talking rubbish!

Fossils are just dead animals, plants or even footprints/impressions. They have been preserved through many different possible ways and highly unlikely flooding has anything to do with it. Generally they are covered by overlying sediment and there are lots of reasons something may not be fossilised; they could be eaten, destroyed by wind/water/animals/plants, crushed by sediment, rot away... If it was a fossil animal the animal itself would relatively quickly rot away leaving bones surrounded by sediment which then goes hard over time. After that the bones disappear and are replaced by minerals which seap in from groundwater. When you find a fossil it is the minerals you find leaving a distainct impression of what was there before, not the bones.

Fossils could show any number of things... climate, temperature, sea levels, geology, age, evolution of species (yes it does exist, unless you believe god put them there, gaps just show that either the evolved creatures form at that time couldn't survive fossilisation or that we haven't found an example of it yet)... anything!

Answer 3

The fossil record displays the cellular structure of previously living organic forms. These can be animal or plant. When the cells are infused with silicon rich solutions this can create the fossil, as with fossilised wood. Animals tend to be compressed and the void created by the decaying cells is filled with the solution to provide the outline of the body and bones.

What the record shows is the existence of life on the planet for billions of years prior to mankind, some forms of which to us are very exotic.

Answer 4

they show the evolution of species. they show that before humans there were wierd and wonderful creatures..From 15 tonne dinosaures to the earliest evolutionary form of humans that lived in the sea

Answer 5

it show the we had the same animals back all them years ago as wot we got now

Answer 6

The evolution of our planet.