What biblical explanations could there be for fossils?

Question

What biblical explanations could there be for fossils?

Answer 1

Seven days is a short time when the material you use to start with is 3-5 billion years old.  " beast of the earth according to their kinds".  Genesis.

Answer 2

Um.....God killed the dinosaurs??

Answer 3

Satan put them there to confuse people and turn them to his side?

Answer 4

Noah's Flood, of course. Any plant or animal must be buried quickly in order to fossilize. All the mud being sloshed around would do that.

When the world was covered with water the moon's pull would cause tides. without any continents to stop the tides, the dirt would get distributed in nice, neat layers. That is what caused the layers, mineral deposits, and the fossils to form.

Moving water can do all sorts of crazy things. Try it yourself. Make a plume, run water down it, and put different grains of sand down it. If that is too much work, go to the store and buy one of those two-colored sand in water ornaments and play with it yourself. If it is too expensive, just see the experiments done on hydrological sorting at http://www.noevolution.org.

*Rotovia*

Thanks for quoting the KJV Bible, but please reread the question.

*Sonic*

Use your head before you post comments.

Answer 5

I don't think the Bible ever said how long a day was

at the beginning, although this is not my religion.

I always thought that a day might be a millennium or more.

  If you insist on so many hours of daylight and so many hours of darkness to complete a day, then we do not really know because in parts of Alaska the days are longer

than 24 hours and at the top of the world 6 months of daylight & 6 months of darkness.

We have no idea where the land masses were at the beginning, we can only guess.

As for the fossils as life became extinct bones and other fossils were left behind to show the magitude of creation. It doesn't matter who or what caused the earth to form, what is important is...it did. If it wasn't here, you also would not be here to ask or answer questions on Y/A.

So you see, you are as important, no less, no more than other beings and organisms on this speck in the universe.

Answer 6

From a Christian perspective:

15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

16Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

19He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

21He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

24He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Answer 7

None whatsoever, what gives you the impression that a collection of children's stories could explain anything as complex as fossil formation.

Answer 8

The flood scrubbed the surface of the planet, then as the waters receeded, the soils and fossils were sorted as they redeposited according to the principle of hydraulic sorting.

Pretty simple, really. And no "missing links".

What was that about Occam's Razor?

Of course for those who actually bought that junk about the world being mythical billions of years old (stop laughing, some folk actually believe that!), have you ever worked the radiometric formulae that are used to determine the age of the Earth? I have. Which is why I know there is no scientific proof of the world being that old. Anyone who wishes to laugh at my statement has my permission to do so AFTER you've actually worked through the dating formulae.

Princess.Drama, you might be surprised to find out just how many scientists have answered your question - you're just not allowed to see the answer.

Peace to you, cousin.

Answer 9

The Great Floods in those days back in the past centuries.

Expose by the good condition of fossils found around the world in perfect condition after soaking in the water for so long in time.

Genesis 6.7

Genesis 7.12, 24

Simple common sense !

What do you think?

Answer 10

7 days doesn't mean 7 days and nowhere is it written that God only created man or the things that now inhabit the planet

Answer 11

Maybe God placed them there to test faith, but I believe they formed naturally.

Answer 12

God created all living things on earth during the creation week in Genesis 1. The creatures on earth were buried in the flood of Noah which is what we observe today. Fossils of sea creatures are found on the tops of the highest mountains in the world indicating they were under water at some point which is what the Bible states..... that all the mountains were covered by water and after the flood, these lower mountains  were raised up. We also find huge fossil deposits around the world with milions of creatures in them showing it was a global flood. Such fossil beds and other sites show they were buried rapidly. And the oil and coal deposits are remnants of animals and vegatation being buried during the flood.

http://www.thetaxpayerschannel.org/graph...

Answer 13

Well everything has a potential to become a fossil when it dies.  So there really is no need for a biblical explanation in this case.

Answer 14

Ha Haaaaaa.....

There are none.  Christians must be so gullible that they'll believe anything the church tells them.  I used to be one, until my mind realized that any religion could be true or false, iow: logic kicked in.

Tomorrow they'll be telling us that the bible says up means down and left means mustard.

The bible has nothing to do with fossils as far I know.

Answer 15

Wow, the ignorance is really off the scale and embarrassing.  First off, a flood didn't create all fossils.  There are litterally miles thick sediment that are piled up layer by layer with fossils in each layer.  Some of these layers were formed from deep sea marine, some terrestrial, some as the sea shore moved, etc.  These were obviously fossilized over hundreds of millions of years.  To all but those that bury their heads in the sand, fossils are proof of live evolving over hundreds of millions of years and even billions of years.  I don't see how that matches the accounts in the Bible.