How do dinosaurs become fossils according to the theory of evolution?

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I can understand how an animal can become fossilized when water and mud encase it (a flood) but I don't understand how the fossils in the geologic column got there? If marine life dies in the water, it rots! When animals die on land, they rot! Yet, they find all these animals in subsequent layers, one on top of another. Sometimes they find all the dinosaurs at one level as if they all died at one time.

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According to Ian Juby, founder of the International Creation Science Special Interest Group for Mensa members, http://www.icssig.org and a sustaining member of the Creation Research Society: http://creationresearch.org

Even the evolutionists have acknowledged that fossilization must happen rapidly - and can happen in hours. They also acknowledge that to make a fossil, the organism has to be buried rapidly. Now they would claim a local flood or sandstorm, but when you look at these fossil beds, they literally cover large portions of entire continents, and can be found on multiple continents - evidence that it certainly was no "local flood."

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Answer 2

Dead creatures become fossils according to geology, the theory pof evolution explains what these fossils mean in the history of life.

The word you are missing from your description is "usually". Dead animals and plants usually decay. However in conditions where the environment is very low in oxygen this may not happen. Rapid burial in any anoxic environment leads to very slow decay and fossilisation, even then it tends to be only the hard body parts that are fossilised. The ocean floor also tends to be a good location for fossilisation.

The 5 main methods of fossilisation are:

Permineralization (Petrification) - This process involves the replacement of the original organic tissues with minerals from the surrounding rock, including silica, calcite or pyrite.

Unaltered preservation - This occurs when the organism is preserved in its original state and protected from the affects of permineralization. Examples of this include insects which become trapped in tree sap, which later turns to amber.

Carbonization (Coalification) - This results from removal of all but the carbon elements. Other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are removed.

Authigenic preservation - These fossils are the molds and casts of organisms which have dissolved or rotted away, leaving only a trace of their existence.

Recrystalization - This occurs where crystals form within the original structure, eventually replacing it and resulting in a crystallized copy.

Animals do die together in large numbers, flash loods, landslides and volcanic eruptions can all suddenly bury large areas of land in very short periods. And over the hundreds of millions of year that life has been around even the tiny chance of fossilisation means that with so many animals we have a reasonable number of fossils.

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well since things cant evolve into fossils re submit you question and I will answer the question

Answer 4

David got it right. The geologic column (as you called it) is generally made up of layer upon layer of sediment that is built up in miles thickness. Sometimes these layers are nearly 100 per cent fossils and sometimes they are barren of fossils. There was no flood that caused fossils. There were millions of floods that are responsible for many terrestrial fossils. Often the best fossil beds are from one of these floods. Trust me, it has nothing to Noah. Most fossils are marine in origin. They are stacked up layer upon layer over millions, even billions, of years.

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Answer 5

What nonsense, not everything rots - If you go to the Museum of London you can even see a pair of Roman knickers that were preserved in anoxic conditions! In the right conditions things are preserved, the combination of air and water rots bones but exclude the air and there is plenty of time for the bones to become fossilised. The question you might ask is that given the millions and millions of dinosaurs that lived on earth why are we not sitting on a mountain of bones! The answer is that only under the right circumstances are they preserved - simply read more until you understand.

Answer 6

Animals that die and are quickly buried are protected from scavengers and having their bodies dislocated. The bones are tougher and over time are replaced by minerals in the water and soil. A fossil is a cast of a once living creature. Stone has replaced bone.

The bog people come to mind.There were human bodies that are found in peat bogs. They appear to be sacrifices or executions. While they died their body was interred in the bog. There the acids and low oxygen preserved their skin and internal organs. Scientists could even know what their last meal was. Here's a case where "they rot!" doesn't hold true. In fact some of the bodies are more then 10,000 years old.