Thursday, November 16, 2006

Paleontology: Polystrate Fossils

An impossible hurdle for Evolution is "polystrate" fossils. These are fossils which were petrified vertically through rock strata. If the rock strata had been laid down slowly over millions of years, these fossils extending up into numerous layers of strata could never have formed.

A prime example of this observation is the Yellowstone National Park fossil forests. Here, thousands of trees and wood fragments seem suspended vertically in the stone without branches or root system support. They seem to have been torn away from their native ground and floated upright in fluid. Consisting mostly of logs and ripped-up bark pieces, these tree fragments were fossillized as the rock layers were laid down around them.

Many of the dinosaurs which are found are likewise discovered with the rock layers having been laid down around them as opposed to on top of them.

Rock layers normally contain only "cast" or "mold" fossils which could possibly be consistant with the way of formation which Evolution declares. But more and more polystrate fossils are being observed. This fact makes Evolution and its "millions of years" mantra impossible.


-R. Josiah Magnuson

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