How Fossils Are Really Formed

Did you have the same questions I did in science class when fossil formation was explained?

• Wouldn't animals decompose before getting buried?
• Aren't there decomposing agents at the bottom of a pond, too?
• Why don't fish that die today get fossilized?
• If the "dying near, and falling into a pond" scenario is so rare, why are there fossil beds with HUGE amounts of fossils?
• And why are they all jumbled together in bone graveyards?

Dinosaur National Monument - Vernal, UT

It turns out the textbook explanation is wrong. 

Fossils are actually formed by a cataclysmic event that includes widespread catastrophic flooding. The silt-laden flood water washes indiscriminate amounts of wildlife into an area where they collect and are buried immediately and deeply. Then time turns the sediment into rock and the animal remains are mineralized. The older the fossil, the more mineralization has generally occurred. That is why megafauna bones (victims of the most recent cataclysm) are more bone-like and show more detail than some of the older fossils, like dinosaurs, who were driven to extinction by a previous cataclysm. The oldest fossils, like trilobites, don't have much of any internal detail left.


Since these cataclysms are few and far between, then almost none of earth's record during the time in between cataclysms is fossilized. Hence the head scratching over punctuated equilibrium and missing links.

Catastrophes and the rapid burial of life explain why:
• many fossils are found together in beds
• so many are found in violently twisted shapes
• they are all jumbled up
• there is little sign of scavenging
• Many fossils are incomplete, dismembered
• fossils are a snapshot of a moment in time with non-existent "missing links."


So what we see in the fossil record is the preservation of the organisms that happened to be alive when one of several of extinction events took place. Which was a regular occurrence.

But it will take a long time for mainstream science to realize the obvious. They simply can't swallow the idea of cataclysms, because it makes the earth many, many times younger than they hope it to be. Because even 4.5 billion years is not enough time for everything around us to spring spontaneously out of nothing. The odds are impossibly high.

This dogmatic adherence to an unproven theory hasn't always been the norm. The scientific community used to entertain wide-ranging ideas and hypotheses before they got enamored by the theory of evolution. In 1688, Robert Hook said that we could use fossils to "raise a chronology . . . and to state the intervals of the times wherein such, or such catastrophes and mutations have happened."

And that is exactly what we can do today. To figure out how, read: Unconformities Are Clues to Cataclysmic Extinction Events

Additional reading:
Fossils Show Rapid and Catastrophic Burial
Is There Circular Logic in Fossil Dating?
SCIENCE WATCH; Man-Made Fossils
How to Make a Fossil: Part 1 – Fossilizing Bone
How to Make a Fossil: Part 2 – Dinosaur Mummies
and Other Soft Tissue
Is there evidence that the flood was global?
Creationism and Fossils
How does young earth creationism handle the evidence for millions of years in the fossil record?
MAN-MADE ARTIFACTS FOUND IN '300-MILLION-YEAR-OLD SANDSTONE
Is Most Published Research Wrong?
Evidence that Noah's Flood Formed the Fossil Record - Dr. Kurt Wise (The Paleontology of the Flood)

John Reeves Stumbled Upon a Goldmine of Ice Age Fossils (Example of a huge deposit of bones)

Evolutionists, You’ve Been Caught Lying About Fossils