Human fossils?

Question

If both dinosaurs and humans died in a global flood, where are all the human fossils?

Answer 1

Good question, and one that has a good answer here
http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter15.pdf

For one thing, you would expect humans to be better at surviving the flood for longer, by moving to higher ground and floating of flotsam etc.

Answer 2

First of all, dinosaurs didn't necessarily die in a flood. Even in the case of the KT Boundary, dinosaurs didn't die overnight. Many evolved into other species or continued on like alligators and crocs. Those that did die would have to have been covered by sediment rather quickly geologically speaking. Left to the elements bodies (including bone, which is a relatively soft material geologically speaking) disappear quite quickly. A good example would be bear remains. There are a lot of bears in the Rocky Mountains, but it is very rare to find their remains.

As for humans, the same holds true. Human bodies are even less resilient to the elements and are disposed of by nature quite quickly. You need specific conditions to preserve a body.

Also, I feel I need to point out that fossils are not bones. They are the result of dissolved materials such as silicates and other rocks that seap into the porous bone matter and replace the actual bone. So, really fossils are rocks. This usually has to happen after the bone is covered and preserved by sediment.

And finally, there isn't any geologic evidence of a global flood. People have searched and there would definitely be geologic evidence of such a catastrophy. There have been large scale floods, and at times it encompassed the world based on man's perspective at the time.

Answer 3

Humans didn't arrive on the planet for about 64 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct.

The dinosaurs went into extinction through a chain of events unfortunate for them as a species, as they could not adapt to the sudden violent changes in their environment.

This is all bourne out in the fossil record, which is dated via a technique called radio carbon dating. Simply put, uranium in rocks changes to lead at a given rate - the more uranium the younger the rock, etc.

This is how we know for certain that the rocks dinosaur fossils are found in are 64 million to 237 million years old.

I don't understand the idea that Creationism is literal truth. If a person is religious then surely they would attribute all things, including evolution, to their God?

Never mind the hard evidence - there's no real point to the argument - why don't they just accept the facts and believe that their God is responsible?

Answer 4

But you know they didn't die in a global flood.

Dinosaurs died out over 70 million years ago, possibly as a result of a global catastrophe such as an asteroid strike.

The first humans date from only about a million years ago.

Human fossils are found, but are very rare, due to there only being about a million years for them to form.

In any case all fossils are rare - probably less than one in a million animal bodies ended up fossilised.

Answer 5

Hi, Being as old as the fossils would be they are all part of the earth by now. Once in a while they will find human fossils that are in ice or where the weather is colder.
poppy1

Answer 6

The dinosaurs were probably killed by a meteor. They lived millions of years before humans. Floods tend to be isolated to one region of the Earth at a time.

Answer 7

dinosaurs 270million yrs
humanoids 3million yrs
humans arrived long after the last dinosaur expired.

Answer 8

hi.
Be care full all the died baddies don't change to fossils.There is some conditions for it that I think you know them.
Also there is some destroying affects that erase the fossils.So we can not find them easily.

Answer 9

They were smaller so they floated away and were eaten.

Answer 10

If you mean the 'biblical flood'.....they didn't and there wasn't one......