We humans live in four dimensions. Length, width, height, and time. We can move up and down, left and right, forward and backwards. The fourth dimension, time, always move forward. Despite many movies, which I like by the way, we cannot travel backwards in time. But this is what many scientists try to do, in a way.
Many fields of science look at the present to try to determine what happened in the past. Geologists look at the earth today and the processes working on the earth as they attempt to determine what happened in the past. Likewise palaeontologists look at the fossils of plants and animals to determine what life was like in the past.
A recent article in Science magazine looked at fossils made by man, in a laboratory, in a single day. The article states “by ‘baking’ their own fossils with pressure, heat, and clay, scientists have now found a way to reveal how soft tissues preserve in fossils that turn up millions of years later—an approach that may allow researchers to peer into the past like never before.”
WOW, that is pretty amazing. Scientists can create fossils in a single day. The question is, does this advancement in science lead to the conclusion that fossils formed and soft tissues remain in those fossils over millions of years? No, it does not! What this really proves is what Christian scientists have already concluded from the Bible’s timeline of history. The global flood happened about 4,400 years ago. It buried millions and millions of plants and animals all over the world. Many of these turned into fossils due to the pressure, heat and physical processes over the single year of the flood.
As time continues to move forward this discovery is another example of an ever growing list of experiments and discoveries that add support to the theory that our planet was created recently; we did not evolve over billions of years. There is also a growing list of world wide scientists who have realized that Darwin’s theory of evolution and the theories built upon it do not stand up to scientific discoveries and experiments over the past 100 years. These are not Christian scientists. They are not believers in a god that created everything, but they are open minded enough to see the evidence against the prevailing evolutionary theories. From a science intersecting with religion, evolution intersecting with creation, point of view, we live in exciting times.
Image: Human made “fossils,” like this soon-to-be-preserved foot from an Anolis lizard, can teach scientists how fossils form and soft tissues survive the ravages of time. © EVAN SAITTA/FIELD MUSEUM/UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL AND TOM KAYE/FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT