The Theory of Creation is Proven True
 by Fossil Records

 

by Julia Engstrom

 

            Billions and billions of years ago, there was a very bad accident somewhere in the cosmos that caused a giant explosion that lasted for years and years.  When the smoke and dust finally cleared away, a beautifully formed planet had been formed, with seas and oceans, dry land with picturesque lakes and mountains, and best of all – populated with interesting plants, insects, animals, and humans.  All life forms had perfect cell structures and each species of animal seemed to know just what other species or plant he was to eat in order to survive.  In time plants and animals evolved from lower cell forms into more complex ones.  Animals such as apes even evolved into human beings.  The above is a very basic description of what many scientists call “The Big Bang Theory” or “The Theory of Evolution.”  This theory sounds like it could not possibly be true.  And, in fact, it is not.  Using the scientists’ own testing methods as they have used them on fossils shows that the only theory that could possibly be true is the Theory of Creation.  (This is the theory where God, as written down in the Book of Genesis, made the earth and all that is in it in six days.)  The scientists’ own tests show such things as species being created altogether during a very short period of time, with almost no species having evolved over time from one animal to another.  The fossil samples show animals and plants exactly as they are today.  The Theory of Creation is absolutely proven true in the study of the fossil record.

            The word “fossil” comes from the Latin verb “to dig.”  A “fossil” originally just meant anything that had been dug up.  Today it means any remains or traces of organisms.  When we hear about fossil fuels, they are actually fossils.  Coal is the remains of plants.  Oil is also, although they are thoroughly decomposed in the making of oil. 

            Trace fossils include animals that have left a print.  It can be a human footprint, or leaf imprints, borrows made by worms, or trails found cast in the mud that has since turned to rock.  Some trace fossils are actually considered casts because as the remains dissolved, the cavity that was left filled up with a mineral, such as opal.

Trace fossils of footprints and burrows

            Most fossils are found in sedimentary rocks.  These rocks are created layer upon layer with the mud and sand that collects at the bottom of rivers, lakes, swamps, and oceans.  After thousands of years, and sometimes less, the weight of upper layers of sediment pressing down on the lower layers turned them into rock.  Any plant or animal life that is trapped within these layers becomes a fossil.  A very common fossil type is that of seashells.

 

        Uptonia seashell found near Yorkshire, England

            There are a few fossils that show entire plants or animals that have been preserved in ice, tar, or hardened sap.  The two most common of these are pollen (which can only be seen under a microscope) and insects that got trapped in tree resin which eventually turned into the stone amber.  In fact, these are among the oldest fossils discovered, along with bacteria that can only be seen under a microscope. 

 

Insect preserved in amber

            Creatures with hard bones or bodies make the best fossils.  It is extremely rare to find a fossil of a jellyfish for example, because there are no hard parts.

            The fossil record is the entire body of evidence left by all of the fossils.  The reason the fossil record is such a valuable tool, and in fact considered the number one proof that the theory of evolution cannot possibly be correct, is because it is so complete.  For some species, there is a near perfect fossil record which means that nearly every animal left a fossil.  Other fossils show only parts of plants or animals.  An example of a fossil record could be a single species of snail.  In one study of a Pliocene snail, there were ten samples from a sequence of snail shells.  These shells were from a freshwater deposit in Yugoslavia, laid down from ten million years ago to three million years ago.  They were able to see, from the fact that there were no gaps in the sequence of shells, that the species remained true from beginning to end.  The oldest snail and the youngest snail, and all the snails in between, all look like the same snail.  This is extremely positive proof that at least this one species did not evolve into anything else or mutate “accidentally” into some higher life form.  When you couple this species with the hundreds of thousands of other species that have left fossils behind, you can see that this is very strong proof that the theory of evolution is not true. 

            While not all fossils have a complete record, neither does the modern world of plants and animals.  And all of the gaps that exist between all basic kinds in the fossil record also exist today.

            In addition to the snails, there are many other things that have been learned by the study of the fossil record.  As already stated above, scientists have been surprised by the fact that all the plants and animals appeared suddenly.  They did not evolve slowly from simple cell forms.  They appeared whole, looking very much like they do today.  David Catchpoole describes the following study:

            A recent New Scientist article ponders a baffling enigma to evolutionists – ‘living fossils’.  These are creatures alive today which are identical to fossilized forms, believed to have lived ‘millions of years ago.’  Examples include the coelacanth fish (fossil coelacanths are believed by evolutionists to be 340 million years old), Gingko trees (125 millions years), crocodiles (140 million years), horseshoe crabs (200 million years), the Lingula lamp shell (450 million years), Neopilina mollusks (500 million years), and the tuatara lizard (200 million years).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

                                                                                 Horseshoe crabs alive today.

 

            This poses a conundrum for evolution:  ‘Why have these life-forms stayed the same for all that time?’  New Scientist quotes several evolutionists who say ‘chance’ and ‘luck’ are the answer.  Unsatisfied with this, other evolutionists look for alternative explanations.  They believe the cockroach (reputed to have survived for 250 million years) demonstrates that the key to success is to “be abundant and live everywhere’, i.e. to be an opportunistic generalist, not fussy about food and habitat.  However, many ‘living fossils’ are in fact high specialized, such as the coelacanth, superbly suited to living in deep-sea caves.  New Scientist suggests that the coelacanth remains unchanged because its habitat has not changed.  But this applies also to many other species, living and extinct.

 

            Probably the main reason the fossil record is considered to be so conclusive as evidence for the Theory of Creation is because it shows no transitional links found between species or even the same species.  In other words, no apes ever became humans.  The fossil record has supplied fossils from almost all species of plants and animals, but no links have been found between plant to animals or fish to amphibian, or amphibian to reptile, or reptile to birds and mammals.  The fact that there are no transitional links means that what evolutionists claim could not possibly be true, and that is what makes the missing transitional links so important.  If there is no evidence that a fish grew legs and became a frog in the fossil record at all, how can it be said that this is what happened?

            There have not even been any intermediate forms between various kinds of creatures that have ever been found.  Evolutionists claim that it might have taken fifty million years for a fish to evolve into an amphibian.  But there are no transitional forms that can support this theory.  There are no fossils with part fins and part feet that have ever been found.  There are no fossils that show animals with partially evolved legs, or eyes, or brains, or any other tissues or organs.  This is the case between every major plant and animal group. 

            The fact that the fossil record is huge makes this evidence absolute.  There are millions of fossils that make up the fossil record. 

            To return to the thesis that the Theory of Creation is absolutely proven true in the study of the fossil record, it is interesting to find that all of the plants and animals appeared at once.  The Book of Genesis reports that God made all of the animals on the fifth and sixth days.  “And God said, ’let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.’  So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. . . .  And God said, ‘Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds:  livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.’  And it was so.  God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.”  (Gen 1:20-21, 24-25)

            From this we can see that the Theory of Creation matches exactly with the fossil record which shows all of the animals being created at one time – not over a span of millions of years.  The record in Genesis also shows that each animal was made specifically according to its type and species - “each according to its kind.”  The fossil record shows no evidence that certain species evolved or mutated into other species or even into a different plant or animal within their own species. 

            The significance of the missing transitional links has been great among the world of the evolutionists.  They had expected to see the fossil record showing that one species evolved over time into an entirely new, usually more complex species.  When there was no evidence of any of these links, the evolutionists have come up with a new theory of evolution that is called “macroevolution.”  This theory of macroevolution says that plants and animals changed suddenly from one kind to another without going through any gradual process, thus eliminating the need for the transitional links.  This theory is the exact opposite of the theory they had always held that plants and animals gradually evolved.  This latest theory sounds a lot like the Big Bang Theory.  Did it take another Big Bang to change all of the plants and animals to other plants and animals – including apes to humans? 

            It cannot be stressed enough that the lack of transitional links has more than proven the Theory of Creation.  There is simply no answer for them to be missing other than the one we read about in Genesis.  If the explanation as given in the Book of Genesis is accepted, all of the questions of how the earth and the plants and animals were created can be answered.

            The fact that scientists have the fossil record to rely on is of great help in figuring out just what did happen when the earth was very young.  Because the fossil record contains such an enormous amount of fossils in it, it is said to be an accurate picture of what has transpired among plant and animal life for at least five hundred or so million years.  It sounds like the evolutionists do accept the findings in the fossil record.  They are simply scrambling to come up with a new theory to support evolution.  However, it cannot be done.  The Theory of Creation is absolutely proven true in the study of the fossil record.