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Radiocarbon in Dinosaur and Other Fossils - Article
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Various Authors - ... under uniformitarian assumptions, we hypothesized that fossils from all three erathems, including dinosaur fossils, should also contain measurable amounts of radiocarbon. Consistent with this hypothesis, we report detectable amounts of...

Where Are Fossils Found? - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... are typically found in sedimentary rock, almost all of which were originally deposited as sediments by moving water. Subsequent processes hardened them into sedimentary rock, as overlying pressure squeezed the water out and the grains...

Some strengths and weaknesses of the polymer shield explanation for soft tissue fossils - Article
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Various Authors - ... August 2019 The presence of short-lived soft tissue in fossils has proven challenging for uniformitarians to explain. Wiemann and co-authors1 describe a mode of preservation that may help explain the presence of primary protein remnants in...

Creation Kids: Floods Form Fossils Fast - Article
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Various Authors - ... Kids learning and activities page. Did you know that fossils almost never form today? You might have heard that fossils formed over millions of years. But actually fossils can form in a very short time under the right conditions. Click...

Does The Geologic Column Prove Evolution? - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... illustrates the nature of the fossil record, with recent fossils on the top and older ones on the bottom. By following the fossils from bottom to top, one can "see" evolution. Single-celled organisms evolve into marine...

When Did the Fossils Die? - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... 1800's, Christian leaders began to be perplexed by the fossils. Their problem stemmed from the facts that: 1) fossils appear to be the remains of once living plants and animals; 2) some scientists, such as James Hutton and Charles Lyell,...

Dino Cells - Content
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... vimeo, 44961385]Paleontologists dig up all kinds of fossils, mostly just small bones or sea shells. But occasionally they discover unusual fossils, like squid with ink, lizards with skin, or even a T. Rex with blood!Evidence for Creation:...

Don't the Fossils Prove Evolution? - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... are led to believe that the order of first appearance of the fossils over time proves evolution. I suggest that it does no such thing, for several reasons. First, the fossils do not occur in this order, simple to complex from bottom to top....

The Hell Creek Formation: The Last Gasp of the Pre-Flood Dinosaurs - Article
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Tim Clarey, Ph.D. - ... complicated. In the past, changes in the stratigraphy and/or fossils were used to pick the upper boundary, but now secularists choose the Iridium-rich layer as the top, regardless of other geological data. Limited occurrences of an Iridium anomaly...

Why Don't We Find More Human Fossils? - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... of the fossil record is basically correct, most of the fossils were deposited during the Flood of Noah's day, as "the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished" (II Peter 3:6). These organisms were trapped and...