Claim CC360:
Few or no new fossils are being formed. Fossils must have been produced
by radically different conditions (a global flood) in the past.
Source:
Whitcomb, John C. Jr. and Henry M. Morris, 1961. <#The Genesis Flood#>.
Philadephia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., p. 129.
Wysong, Randy L. 1976. The Creation-Evolution Controversy.
Midland,
Mich.: Inquiry Press, p. 364.
Response:
- The mechanisms by which fossils form are still occurring. We do not
often observe them because they are generally out of sight or rare, but
they still happen.
- The La Brea Tar Pits have trapped and preserved animals (and at
least one person) in recent times.
- Pompeii preserved many bodies in 79 C.E.
- Sediments from rivers still cover corpses in their deltas.
- Insects and plants are being covered by geyser deposits.
created 2003-6-23
