It doesn't really matter what these scientists say about the age of a fossil. 'it must have fossilised very quickly' or 'it took millions of years'.
They age fossils from the rocks that they are in. And they age rocks from the fossils they contain.
Scientists say what they want about the age of fossils. As long as it suits their religion that it all occurred by pure chance, and for that faith they need very long time periods.
How is it that there are so many creatures alive today which are also found in the fossil record?
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And they age rocks from the fossils they contain.
No they don't. They age rocks by radiometric methods. The radiometric ages agree with the fossils.
How is it that there are so many creatures alive today which are also found in the fossil record?
That's stupid. That's like asking "why are there so many people alive today when they're also found buried in graveyards?"
That it doesn't take millions of years to create a fossil doesn't mean that some fossils are not millions of years old.
Your idea of how scientists establish the age of rocks and fossils is moronically simplistic... as I suspect you are.
How is it that there are so many creatures alive today which are also found in the fossil record?
Because nothing is eternal, except for stupidity.
They age the fossils according to the Carbon-14 isotopes remaining in the fossil, and according to the relative date of the sedimentary layer in which the fossil is found.
Only rarely is carbon used, because of its relatively short half-life. In principle you are correct, though. Other decay sequences in use: K/Ar, and Ur/Pb.
"They age fossils from the rocks that they are in. And they age rocks from the fossils they contain. "
Wrong. See:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dating.html#Circularity
"Scientists say what they want about the age of fossils."
Wrong. Scientists say what the *evidence* tells them.
"As long as it suits their religion that it all occurred by pure chance, and for that faith they need very long time periods."
Wrong. Scientists have many religions and none. You see, grown ups are far more sophisticated than you can possibly imagine and can hold and compartmentalise seemingly contradictory notions. You might want to give it a try, growing up I mean.
"How is it that there are so many creatures alive today which are also found in the fossil record?"
Can you name one? Or do you mean how come there are so many creatures alive today that look vaguely *similar* to those found in the fossil record?
Yet another willfully ignorant creationist.
How is it that there are so many creatures extinct today which are also found in the fossil record? And why is it that the bible forgot to mention 30 foot tall lizards?
Here's the thing. rocks are made of minerals, compressed over long periods of time, interrupted by climate, but repeated over and over. Never seen flagstone?
The best chance of a dead body to become a fossil is to be trapped in the same events creating the stone. Heavy sediment that settles and hardens repeated in layers many times is natures vacuum seal packaging.
"How is it that there are so many creatures alive today which are also found in the fossil record?"
6000 year old stuff isn't as deep and a lot of things on Earth are over 50,000 years old in this form.
"How is it that there are so many creatures alive today which are also found in the fossil record?"
Because if the environment does not change, changes little, or doesn't change in a way that directly and majorly affects a given organism, they don't change, or change much, either.
"They age fossils from the rocks that they are in. And they age rocks from the fossils they contain."
Well, if fossils of one particular era and only that era are found in a rock, the rock is approximately the age of the fossil. And if a fossil is not of known age, the age of the rock it is in is a pretty good indicator. Why? Simple. The rock and the fossil in it are about the same age! This is because the rock began forming about the same time as the fossil began fossilizing.
There AREN'T creatures alive today in the fossil record. The fossil record consists almost entirely of extinct animals, some of which are very similar to modern-day animals, but most aren't.
Also, it has to be dead to be a fossil.
"How is it that there are so many creatures alive today which are also found in the fossil record?"
If it works it works, if it doesen't it dies out. Is that too complicated for you?
They may have found that squid fossil with it's ink sac intact in Wiltshire, but you certainly live in the river in Egypt, XY.
Butthurt that this (never mind the shitload of evidence found previously) conclusively proves the whole 6000 year YEC theory is a load of bollocks, much?
Never mind denial, you're in the river in Paris: insane.
'As long as it suits their religion that it all occurred by pure chance.'
How many times do we have to tell you? Listen once more, please, you and all the other anti-evolution people who just don't know what you ae talking about... EVOLUTION DOES NOT OCCUR BY CHANCE.
Please learn the basic rules of the theory before you open your mouths.
And your qualifications to say the scientists are wrong are what, exactly?
You pull shit out of your ass and claim to know more than those that have been studying the subject their entire lives?
Because not all species that existed millions of years ago are extinct, perhaps?
I have to say that those creatures that lived millions of years ago had no idea how lucky they were that there were no fundies to dumb down the planet.
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