Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

3 The Fossil Record Lucky Accidents of Fossilization Now let us turn to our richest geological museums, and what a paltry displa ...

56 Evolution and the Fossil Record In the marine realm, there are many agents of destruction as well. Soft-bodied organ- isms, l ...

The Fossil Record 57 FIGURE 3.2. In some places the fossil record is very dense and continuous, with extraordinary numbers of sp ...

58 Evolution and the Fossil Record Most single-celled organisms, like amoebas and paramecia, are soft-bodied and never fossilize ...

The Fossil Record 59 working man, an engineer for a local canal-digging company in the south of England. He had a keen eye for r ...

FIGURE 3.3. The geologic time scale was originally reconstructed by devout creationist geologists who realized that the record o ...

The Fossil Record 61 to the dilemma. The layers of rock with fossils of extinct animals represented a dark, dangerous period bef ...

62 Evolution and the Fossil Record The Surreal World of “Flood Geology” If the system of “flood geology” can be established on a ...

The Fossil Record 63 In Price’s later years, his bizarre ideas about geology were generally ignored as embarrassments by most cr ...

64 Evolution and the Fossil Record shells of marine invertebrates and fishes in the lower levels, followed by more advanced anim ...

The Fossil Record 65 Precambrian Cambrian Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Paleogene Fm ...

66 Evolution and the Fossil Record In a supreme twist of irony, the disproof of flood geology is found just beneath the Answers ...

The Fossil Record 67 exactly what part of the Ordovician each layer came from by its characteristic fossils. You could not ask f ...

68 Evolution and the Fossil Record the research I did in my doctoral dissertation. At the base of the sequence are marine fossil ...

The Fossil Record 69 The Grand Canyon Through the Looking Glass The main reason for insisting on the universal Flood as a fact o ...

70 Evolution and the Fossil Record of deposit: a single layer of mud. Most floods inundate an area, and then the mud slowly sett ...

FIGURE 3.7. Close examination of the actual rocks in the Grand Canyon makes the “flood geology” hypothesis completely absurd. (A ...

72 Evolution and the Fossil Record (E) (F) FIGURE 3.7. (Continued ) then as soon as some supernatural force rapidly tilted them ...

The Fossil Record 73 of deposition of the Grand Canyon Series sediments (along with long erosion between them, when the Galeros ...

74 Evolution and the Fossil Record that they dried out repeatedly, but also delicate ferns and other plant fossils preserved int ...