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The rejection of the validity of fossils and of dating by religious fundamentalists creates a problem for them:

They cannot deny that hundreds of millions of fossils reside in display cases and drawers around the world. Perhaps some would argue that these specimens - huge skeletons of dinosaurs, blocks from ancient shell beds containing hundreds of specimens, delicately preserved fern fronds -- have been manufactured by scientists to confuse the public. This is clearly ludicrous.

Otherwise, religious fundamentalists are forced to claim that all the fossils are of the same age, somehow buried in the rocks by some extraordinary catastrophe, perhaps Noah's flood. How exactly they believe that all the dinosaurs, mammoths, early humans, heavily-armored fishes, trilobites, ammonites, and the rest could all live together has never been explained. Nor indeed why the marine creatures were somehow 'drowned' by the flood.

The rejection of dating by religious fundamentalists is easier for them to make, but harder for them to demonstrate. The fossils occur in regular sequences time after time; radioactive decay happens, and repeated cross testing of radiometric dates confirms their validity.


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Do the evolutionists want everybody to keep the childbook image of a cute little boat with two giraffe heads popping out the top and a tubby Father Christmas type Noah on deck in their minds when considering the flood?

Has anybody heard the much more realistic version? Has any Christian really ever said that every single living creature outside of the ark was destroyed? This is mistaken. In fact, God's intention was to wipe the corrupt human beings at that time and start anew, apart from Noah and family. Many sea creatures would have survived this, and certainly Noah did not need a two by two following of fish walking up into the ark...the ocean took care of them. He had an aquarian right outside his front door.

Here is a pdf link that I think is well worth viewing for those who are interested to hear the realistic version of events.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter13.pdf