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the Origins program. Origins was a special
program, near to the heart of my late husband,
Russell Bixler.
I trust that the information in this presentation will
be helpful in your study of creation science.
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-Norma Bixler
What are
Fossils?
• From the Latin, fossilis, meaning “dug up”
• The mineralized remains, traces, and
impressions of plants and animals that
lived long ago and have since been dug up
Fossil
Discoveries
• Billions discovered
• Dinosaurs – Rockies, South Africa, Central
Asia, Belgium
• Fish – California, New York, Scotland
• Marine Invertebrates – Almost everywhere
Fossil Discoveries
& Instant
Stardom
• Yields instant coverage in newspapers worldwide
• National Geographic
• Such discoveries important for research funding
•“Discover or perish”
• Calls into question objectivity
Fossil Record
in Darwin’s Time
• Very few paleontologists
• Very few fossils
• Even the limited evidence concerned Darwin
•“Where is the fossil evidence?” he asked
• Rationalized why there was no fossil support for
his theory
Fossil Explosion in
the Cambrian Strata
• A virtual explosion of life
•“Biology’s Big Bang”
• Nearly all animal phyla make first appearance
• Seems to have been “planted there”
• No pre-Cambrian ancestors
• Many of these animals continue today
Stasis and the
Fossil Record
• In evolution, one would
expect constant change
• By contrast, we find stasis
• Fossils show no slow modifications over
time
No Intermediate
Fossil Forms
• All creatures fully formed
• No evidence of transition
• British Museum: 60 million specimens – not
one transition
• Evidence reveals sudden appearance of
animal life forms
Evolutionist
Concessions
• Darwin –“Where is the fossil evidence?”
• Ste