Thursday, April 16, 2020

3 Examples of Rapid Fossilization...

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.
Genesis 7:21

"There are many research reports to choose from but three examples will suffice.

Firstly, a fossil ichthyosaur from Germany’s famous Holzmaden
quarry has been found with fossilised blubberand skin remains. Called Stenopterygius, this extinct marine reptile is said to be 180 million years old. Dr. Johan Lindgren of Lund University in Sweden says, “the still-flexible skin meant the specimen must have been fossilised so fast that organic molecules were trapped inside the mineral component of the fossil.”

Secondly, recent fossil finds by Chinese scientists revealed such an astonishing level of preservation that slow-n-gradual burial is not an option.

Found along the Danshui river in China’s Hubei province, thousands of fossilised jellyfish, sponges, anemones, worms, arthropods and algae are said to have been entombed in an ancient underwater mudslide.”
Dr. Martin Smith, a palaeontologist at Durham University excitedly said, [The] preservational quality is mindblowing … If you sent a time traveller back to the Cambrian period armed with a camera and an x-ray machine, the images they’d come back with would be nothing compared to these fossils, which preserve detail finer than a human hair.”
In their paper the scientists make clear that the exquisite preservation of the fossils is due to a sudden mud flow that swept the animals into cold, deep water, thus slowing decay.

A third example of fossil evidence that is wonderfully compatible with the Noahic Flood was reported in the prestigious journal Science.

Over 215 eggs (maybe up to 300) were found in a sandstone block, assigned to a species of pterosaur called Hamipterus tianshanensis. Some had embryonic remains, but what really caught popular attention was that the pterosaur eggs had soft parchment-like shells.
Authors Xiaolin Wang (Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing) and Alexander Kellner (National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro) write, “This sedimentological data, associated with the exceptional quantity of eggs and bones, indicate that events of high energy such as storms have passed over a nesting site, causing the eggs to be moved inside the lake where they floated for a short period of time, becoming concentrated and eventually buried along with disarticulated skeletons.”
That is quite imaginative, but what is certain is the conclusion that a high energy watery event is needed to explain such preservation."
CMI