Creationists: If fossils are proof of the Flood, why are all the fossils of extinct animals and no modern ones

Question

If Evolution does not occur, then most (all) of the fossils should be of modern animals.

But there are no fossils of modern animals.

So when we look at all these fossils of animals which you claimed drowned in the Flood, why do we not find any modern animals amongst them?

Answer 1

because fossisation takes millions of years?

Answer 2

There are modern animals amongst them, it is just that like dogs breeding changes their appearance, so did the animals back then. Some are going to look different. Have you gone and looked for these fossils or are people who also haven't gone and looked telling you about it?

It's a matter of faith. If you are looking for evidence, you are looking too hard. You have to have faith in evolution, just like creation. However if you are looking for evidence, just look right around you and you will see a creator in everything!

You are just fighting the fact that our world around us is so complex that it points to a creator! When you look at a car, do you assume that it just happened to come together or do you assume that someone had to have designed that. "There is enough information in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Brittanica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over" R. Dawkins Mutations do not generate information. "I've never found a mutation that added information. All point mutations that have been studied at the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information, not increase it." K. Ham Study the Human Eye and you will see there has to be a creator!

Answer 3

There is some proof of a flood but really only in the middle east area. Most likely a larger than normal flood occured within that region. To someone writing a book about it back then this probably would have seemed like the whole world. Although I'm not really a creationist so maybe I shouldn't be answering this question.

Answer 4

There have been fossils of modern animals found in the same place as the extinct ones.

At Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, where you can actually see dinosaur fossils still in the ground, there are fossil clams in among the dinosaur bones. Clams are modern creatures. But, since they are found with dinosaur bones, which are assumed to be prehistoric, it is assumed that the clams have existed for millions of years without changing. At the La Brea Tar Pits, in Los Angeles, they show lots of skulls of prehistoric saber-toothed cats. They have also found lots of bones from rabbits, and birds, and other modern creatures. They don’t display them prominently because nobody cares about rabbit bones. Tourists just want to see the ferocious cats. But this partial display tends to create the false impression that only prehistoric bones are found in the asphalt pits.

The fact that remains of modern mountain-dwelling plants and animals are found together in one place, and remains of modern desert denizens in another, doesn’t mean that one ecological zone existed before or after the other one. It merely means that all the creatures that were together in one place during a disaster died together.

Heavier animals might sink to lower levels in a tar pit that lighter animals. A flood might sort bodies or bones by size, shape, or density. The fact that one tends to find certain bones together is not compelling evidence that there were different epochs during which different animals evolved.

Answer 5

For a couple reasons:
1. Modern animals are alive, although you probably don't know that.
2. Fossilization takes millions of years.
3. Fossils are NOT proof of the flood. Noah took some of ALL the current animals. Dinosaurs died out BEFORE the flood. I have a theory that when God made the earth, you know how he took chunks of stuff floating around in space to make it? Well, those chunks of stuff had dinosaur fossils from previous worlds billions of years ago.
4. The actual proof of the flood is that there is an object atop Mt. Aratat in Turkey, and continental drift is a product of the flood.

Answer 6

Better question. If evolution were true then why doesn't the fossil record show a progressing from one species to the next? Why does the fossil record instead show fully developed species "apparently" springing into existence.

Answer 7

There are lots of fossils of modern animals.

In fact nearly all fossils are of modern animals, birds and fish.

Pastor Art

Answer 8

Like the coelancanth? Or the cypriot mouse? Or the emperor dragonfly? Or the velvet worm? I've got plenty more examples if you want them.

Answer 9

Interesting. I didn't think that creationists would even bother with explanation of fossils other than, "They were placed there by pagans."

Answer 10

you are proof of your own existence

start from your current awareness and forget the doctrines of origin and sin

once you embrace your existence and life, things make sense and you move on past trying to make sense of ignorant dogmas designed to submit you and control life for you