Contorted positions of fossil animals indicate rapid burial

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 References 5 See Also 6 Acknowledgments

Claim

The contorted positions of fossil animals indicate that they were rapidly buried alive during the Great Flood.

Source

• Brown, 1997, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. 21. Rapid Burial. [1]

Responses

1. Many of the most famous fossils in the paleontological record are known to be the result of rapid burial. For example the Burgess Shale organisms look to have been suddenly buried by a submarine collapse of a cliff or ledge of silted clay. Many upper mid-western dinosaur and mammal fossils were suddenly buried when alive by an ashfall from a massive volcanic eruption. One could argue that most well-preserved fossils are the result of sudden burial events. Animals that die in the open are eaten and scattered by scavengers, and bacterial decomposition and atmospheric oxidation takes care of the remaining traces. The fact that most of our good fossils show evidence of sudden burial is not proof of the biblical flood but just proof that sudden burial by any of several geological mechanisms (that are well understood) is a good way to make fossils.
2. Most of the "contorted positions" of various fossil vertebrates strongly suggest that they underwent rigor mortis before burial.
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References

1. Weber, Christopher Gregory, 1980. Common creationist attacks on geology. Creation/Evolution issue 2, pp. 10-25.

See Also

• Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?
• Fake Fossils
• Theory of Evolution

Acknowledgments