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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

The study of the forms of life existing in the fossils of plants and animals is called paleontology. This discipline differs from that of archaeology, which is the study of man's past by scientific analysis of the material remains of his cultures. The two studies, however, often intersect. When studying paleontology, it is also often necessary to draw from geology, and most particularly, sedimentary geology.

Evolutionists who also study paleontology or sedimentary geology sometimes put forth arguments against the world-wide flood spoken of in Scripture being the source of most of the fossils we find.

 

However, in the opinion many creationists, such arguments demonstrate a potential misunderstanding of the forces of nature that bear upon such a world-wide, cataclysmic event. Re-thinking of sedimentation is beginning as some geologists take a more detailed look at the multi-layering phenomena observed, say, at Mount St. Helens, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, in finely separated rock strata, hard-rock erosion from mud-flow, multi-level sedimentation and tree re-planting, coalification, etc. The effects of these processes on the radiometric attributes of underlying strata, (for example trapped Argon concentrations in igneous rocks) are also coming to light via focused, scientific studies.