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For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

We continue today by introducing the testimony of the fossils as we take a closer look at the various types that have been found. Thus we begin to accumulate what we could call a fossil record. How this record is interpreted is largely subjective, depending on one’s point of view as to how the plants and animals they represent came to be. What that record tells the unbiased observer may be surprising. In addition to the replaced and permineralized fossil types described earlier, sometimes soft tissues of plants or animals are carbonized, or rapidly buried and compressed. Frozen mammoth carcasses found in ice or insects trapped in amber are examples of preservation fossils, whereby an organism is preserved with very little chemical or physical change. Most of us have seen clams or other invertebrate shells that have been recrystallized. In other words, the aragonite crystal structure of the shell has been changed to mineral calcite rock.