question for those who believe in evolution.?

Question

it seems when a living creature dies, an animal, for arguments sake, the flesh and bones decay. no bones can realistically remain in a single location for millions of years to then become covered up with dust, etc, and then be turned into fossils under the immense pressure. Everything becomes dust in the wind, to coin a phrase, long beforehand. So do you as an evolutionist believe that either a single cataclysmic event happened to cause fossils or many cataclysmic events? And a second part to the question, are fossils still being created today; if so, where do you believe this is occurring.
PS, I'm asking because I'm curious, not trying to denigrate what anyone believes. Just curious. Thanks

Answer 1

dude.. not all bones become fossils. in the fairly unusual cases they do it was because they we entoumbed in someting sticky taht prevented the disintegration.
Like the dinos in the LaBrea tarpit. Or dino footprints in the clay/limestone deposits. The entire point is fossils get created when they get covered up faster than erased.

Also the bone does not remain bone for long. The minerals get absorbed by the bone over time and the whole thing can mineralize into rock... or it can decay very slowly leaving behind a imprints in a silt layer.

Mass extincitions have been recorededin the past and these coincide with cataclysmic events.. and a lot more fossils being found from one period than from another but fossils are not restricted to creation from extinctions they occour throuogut time under the right conditions.

And yes... fossilization is occouring right now as we speak. its a natural process that takes millions of years so its hard to see but fo example if you have ever seen body of a dead fish get covered over with mud in a river delta you are witnessing the beginning of the fossil cycle. In a few million years given a few trillion coverings a could thousand of these will emerge at fossils.

Not that anyone is going to be alive to look for them then.... because at the rate we're going the religious Left Behind rapture folks will see to it that we all get blown up as quickly as possible so that they can go to heaven...

oh well... I'm willing to bet they are in for a nasty surprise.

Answer 2

Cataclysmic events don't cause fossilization, it's a result of an animal dying in the right place at the right time. Specifically, an animal must be frozen, covered in sediment quickly following its death, or it must die in an area with a low oxygen content. Furthermore, we're more likely to find fossils of animals that had large, hard parts (or big bones) and which existed in a wide distribution for a long time. We would be VERY lucky to find an ancient jellyfish fossil, for example, but trilobite fossils are a dime a dozen.

Fossilization is still occuring, in areas where conditions are right. It might not be occuring as quickly as it has in Earth's past, because there would be fewer regions likely to remain undisturbed long enough for the process to complete.

Bones don't have to remain in one location for millions of years, by the way. They can be fossilized even if they move. By way of evidence, many dinosaur skeletons have been found spread out over a large areas, and in many cases the bones are broken due to the stresses incurred post-mortem.

I hope this helps!

Answer 3

I still question the descendancy line of evolution, but that's a different topic.

The event that may cause such a thing to happen would be much like a mudslide, a freezing event, an open tarpit, or a toxic gas vent. Each of these will cause an instant preservation situation. For example, the mudslide would mean said animal was caught in a wave of heavy earth, crushing them into an earthy tomb, where most decaying agents wouldn't reach. However, that also means the animal's carcass may have been broken and mangled, leaving any remaining bones in a twisted manor.

Some of the others might limit the activity of the decaying agents, such as the freeze or toxic gas. It's not ideal for their survival.

So, many of these events were as simple as some of the events we see still today. It doesn't require anything massive for an animal to die where it can be covered, protected from decay.

Answer 4

The fossils don't necessarily have to wait for millions of years. Imagine mud slides, for instance, covering a creature in seconds. Or the tar pits like they have in California.

And yes, they're still being created -- any time the actual conditions are right and the site remains undisturbed. The only thing is -- man disturbs almost everything.

Answer 5

thats not what happens though with larger animals with denser (is that even a word) bones.

Not everything turns into dust in the wind (great song by the way) either.

I'm a psuedo-hobbyist-scientist, so I am not going to pretend to have many facts or even a great understanding of this.

I just know that bones are found of humans dating back thousands of years so there are fossil records.

Silver, Evolution and the bible are not diametrically opposed to one another. Think for yourself, not what a group tells you to.

Answer 6

Fossils remain, or bones if you will, when oxygen is lacking as that is needed to promote decay. So if an animal falls in a mud bog for example their bones are more likely to be preserved.

Answer 7

bones take a long time to disintegrate, and don't you think some of that dust blowing around could cover them up long before they disintegrate? In forested areas, leaves fall quite thickly and cover things in one season. Fossilization is probably taking place all over the globe, wherever conditions are right. Archaeologists are finding cities beneath cities that no one knew about.

Answer 8

i think it really depends on where the animal died. because you dont find the same kind of fossils all over the world at the same depth. When the bones are sitting there something like a mud slide or something like that could cover it harden it thus is preserved. this might not be but its my thought on it.

Answer 9

Some of the evolutionists have a touchingly naive view of the formation of fossils!
The idea that an animal will hang around for long enough to be covered by silt is laughable.

Most creatures get eaten in minutes or at most days, when they die. Yet the rocks are full of billions of dead creatures.

These give clear evidence of rapid burial - fossils have been found of animals in the middle of giving birth and in the middle of eating another animal. Also there are fossils of jellyfish showing their soft body parts. It must have just been sitting there waiting for that silt to arrive :)


Good challenge to the evolutionists - and ably demonstrates most peoples' failure to understand how the claims of evolution do not stand up to scrutiny.

Answer 10

Bones do indeed remain in the same place for millions of years. If they didn't, they wouldn't become fossils.
Just follow the link provided.

Also: In response to Silver G's question and comment,
no I don't think I'm an ape, I think you are:)