What Can We Learn From Fossils

by Dr. Steve and Ruth Carter on June twenty, 2017

Learn From Fossils

Most fossils are a few yard years onetime. They can help us understand what animal and plant life was like many years ago. Some of the creatures we see preserved in rock may no longer exist today, like trilobites and dinosaurs. Creatures that no longer exist we call extinct. If we did not have the fossil record, we would have no thought what these forms of plants and animals were like.

Many fossils we find are from animals and plants that do exist today. Very little has changed in their structure and advent. We call them living fossils. The nautilus, horseshoe crab, coelacanth (a fish), and ginkgo tree are examples of living fossils.

Fossil vs. Modern

Another matter nosotros can learn from the fossil tape is that something very important is missing. At that place are no fossils of creatures turning from ane kind of brute or plant into another kind. It'due south articulate from Genesis that God created each organism to reproduce after its own kind. The fossil record supports the creation account from the Bible.

The fossil tape is likewise a statement of how much God hates sin. He sent a overflowing that covered the world so that every land animate being that had the jiff of life in information technology would perish. Fossils remind united states of america that God is off-white and He judges sin severely.

But look! God gave the world a second chance. He didn't just end history with the worldwide Flood. He preserved two of every kind (and seven of some) of air-breathing state animal to kickoff up the world again. And He saved a family unit—Noah's family—so the man family unit could continue. God did this because He had fabricated a promise that He intended to keep. That promise was to send a Savior to this earth who would exist a Rescuer from sin. His proper noun was Jesus. And just as the Ark was a identify where Noah and his family could exist safe from the judgment of the Overflowing, and so Jesus is the ane who can keep us prophylactic from God'due south judgment on our sin.

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And finally, the fossil tape shows us that we tin trust God's Word, the Bible, completely. Everything we can find from the fossils nosotros find fits perfectly into the account of the world'south history as the Bible records it.

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