In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood

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25. Out-of-Sequence Fossils

Frequently, fossils are not vertically sequenced in the assumed evolutionary order.^a For example, in Uzbekistan, 86 consecutive hoofprints of horses were found in rocks dating back to the dinosaurs.^b A leading authority on the Grand Canyon published photographs of horselike hoofprints visible in rocks that, according to the theory of evolution, predate hoofed animals by more than 100-million years.^c Dinosaur and humanlike footprints were

Figure 14: Nebraska Man. Artists’ drawings, even those based on speculation, powerfully influence the public. Nebraska man was mistakenly based on one tooth^h of an extinct pig. Yet in 1922, The Illustrated London News published this picture showing our supposed ancestors. Of course, it is highly unlikely that any fossil evidence could support the image conveyed here of a naked man carrying a club.

found together in Turkmenistan^d and Arizona.^e Sometimes, land animals, flying animals, and marine animals are fossilized side-by-side in the same rock.^f Dinosaur, whale, elephant, horse, and other fossils, plus crude human tools, have reportedly been found in phosphate beds in South Carolina.^g Coal beds contain round, black lumps called coal balls, some of which contain flowering plants that allegedly evolved 100-million years after the coal bed was formed.^h Amber, found in Illinois coal beds, contain chemical signatures showing that the amber came from flowering plants, but flowering plants supposedly evolved 170-million years after the coal formed.ⁱ In the Grand Canyon, in Venezuela, in Kashmir, and in Guyana, spores of ferns and pollen from flowering plants are found in Cambrian^j rocks—rocks supposedly deposited before flowering plants evolved. Pollen has also been found in Precambrian^k rocks deposited before life allegedly evolved.

Petrified trees in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park contain fossilized nests of bees and cocoons of wasps. The petrified forests are reputedly 220-million years old, while bees (and flowering plants, which bees require) supposedly evolved almost 100-million years later.^l Pollinating insects and fossil flies, with long, well-developed tubes for sucking nectar from flowers, are dated 25-million years before flowers are assumed to have evolved.^m Most evolutionists and textbooks systematically ignore discoveries which conflict with the evolutionary time scale.