"The Ottawa Citizen"
Sunday 14 January 2001

Fossil record supports co-existence of dinosaurs and man
Lyall Jones
 

In his article, "The creationist safety net" (Dec. 27), Andrew Potter mentions
that some creationists still hold to the "moronic" notion that man and
dinosaurs co-existed. But an awful lot is being swept under the rug here.

The truth is, the fossil record actually does contain plenty of astonishing
evidence of this very thing that evolutionists so vigorously deny -- dinosaur
and human bones, footprints, and the like existing in the same rock strata. Or
the human remains are found below the dinosaur remains in the rock strata --
somehow in the wrong evolutionary order, it seems.

But alas, evolutionists are notorious for glossing over details and pounding
their evidence into the mould of preconceived ideas. And so, they have invoked
many a long-winded theory (as any weary student of geomorphology knows) to
explain away the evidence and sweep the embarrassing details well out of sight
under the evolutionary rug.

(By the way, you can check out all those "embarrassing details" in a book
called The Genesis Flood by Whitcomb & Morris. Interesting stuff, let me tell
you. It deals with creationism from a scientific point of view -- so
exhaustively scientific, in fact, that it should please even the most exacting
and scientific of folks.)

Noah's Flood is ridiculed as mere fable nowadays. Nevertheless, its effects
are easy to see in the Earth today. If we don't want to believe it just
because the Bible says so, then fine, let's use some scientific reasoning, no
problem. There's all the scientific evidence in the world we need. (All you
really need, though, is a little common sense.)

Anywhere you go in the Earth, you can find sedimentary (that is, water-formed)
rock layers. And how do the scientists think all these "water-formed" rocks
came into being? Local floods, they say.

Well, why not just get smart and realize that all these "local floods" in
every corner of the Earth were actually just one great big flood?

And where are all the fossils located? Why, in these same type of rocks. So,
what happened to the dinosaurs? They were drowned, of course. And for their
bones to turn into fossils, the drowning animals had to undergo sudden burial
under tons and tons of dirt and sediment stirred up by a flood of catastrophic
proportions. (That's scientific fact, in case you're wondering.) Those huge
fossil graveyards didn't get there by any gradual processes of evolution, be
sure of that.

So, away with this absurd notion about the fossil record disproving creation.
Nonsense. The truth is the fossil record gives clear, ringing testimony to
what the Good Book says happened in prehistoric times.

And if that's not enough, it does a pretty good job of disproving evolution at
the same time.

As for some of the other pillars of evolution -- dating methods, ape-men, and
the like -- these also are just as shaky in their scientific validity as the
above-mentioned evidence of fossil records and rock strata. If space
permitted, I would love to address those issues as well. Maybe another
time.

Lyall Jones,

Ottawa

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