Fossils do not prove evolution.
If evolution is true, then there should be thousands of examples
of transitional forms such as half reptile-half bird.
The simple truth is that the transitional forms don't exist
in the fossil record. Even the few that evolutionists try to use
such as Archaeopteryx and Eohippus, were just extinct animals.
Again, if evolution is true, where are all of the thousands of transitional
forms that would have existed over the millions of years of evolution?
Part of the problem lies in the “standard geologic column”,
which is supposed to represent the sedimentary layers and fossils
found in the earth’s crust. The time scale associated with
this column was just made up by a group of men that assumed the
earth is millions of years old and that the most primitive animals
are the oldest, since they evolved first.
According to Dr. Henry Morris, “The fact is that it (the
geologic column) exists nowhere in the real world, except on the
pages of textbooks. The standard column is at least one hundred
miles in thickness, whereas actual local columns average only a
mile in thickness… Furthermore, there is no correlation of
rock characteristics as such with the “age” of the rocks.
Any rock type (sandstone, shale, and so on) can be found in any
age…
How, then, is the age of a rock determined? The remarkable fact
is that the geological age of a rock is determined primarily by
the fossils it contains, on the basis of the fossil sequences that
had been assigned to the different ages by Cuvier, Lyell, and their
followers well over a century ago. The circle of reasoning involved
is subtle but once assumed generates a powerful argument for evolution.”
Dr. Henry Morris, Science and the Bible, page 69.
In other words, evolutionists determine the age of a rock by the
fossils it contains, according to the geologic column, which was just made up assuming simpler lifeforms are older and more complex lifeforms are younger. "Then, the paleontological sequences so constructed are taken as proof of evolution." (Dr. Henry Morris)
It’s called circular reasoning and
is basically nonsense!
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