Graveyards around the World

Countless billions of plant and animal fossils are found in extensive "graveyards" where they had to be buried rapidly on a massive scale. Often the fine details of the creatures are exquisitely preserved.

For example, billions of straight-shelled, chambered nautiloids are found fossilized with other marine creatures in a 7 foot (2 m) thick layer within the Redwall Limestone of Grand Canyon. This fossil graveyard stretches for 180 miles (290 km) across northern Arizona and into southern Nevada, covering an area of at least 10,500 square miles (30,000 km²). These squid-like fossils are all different sizes, from small, young nautiloids to their bigger, older relatives.

To form such a vast fossil graveyard required 24 cubic miles (100 km³) of lime sand and silt, flowing in a thick, soup-like slurry at more than 16 feet (5 m) per second (more than 11 mph [18 km/h]) to catastrophically overwhelm and bury this huge, living population of nautiloids.

Hundreds of thousands of marine creatures were buried with amphibians, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, insects, and reptiles in a fossil graveyard at Montceau-les-Mines, France. More than 100,000 fossil specimens, representing more than 400 species, have been recovered from a shale layer associated with coal beds in the Mazon Creek area near Chicago. This spectacular fossil graveyard includes ferns, insects, scorpions, and tetrapods buried with jellyfish, mollusks, crustaceans, and fish, often with soft parts exquisitely preserved.

At Florissant, Colorado, a wide variety of insects, freshwater mollusks, fish, birds, and several hundred plant species (including nuts and blossoms) are buried together. Bees and birds have to be buried rapidly in order to be so well preserved.

Alligator, fish (including sunfish, deep sea bass, chubs, pickerel, herring, and garpike 3-7 feet [1-2 m] long), birds, turtles, mammals, mollusks, crustaceans, many varieties of insects, and palm leaves (7-9 feet [2-2.5 m] long) were buried together in the vast Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Notice in many of these examples how marine and land-dwelling creatures are found buried together. How could this have happened unless the ocean waters rose and swept over the continents in a global, catastrophic Flood?

At Fossil Bluff on the north coast of Australia's island state of Tasmania, many thousands of marine creatures (corals, bryozoans [lace corals], bivalves [clams], and gastropods [snails]) were buried together in a broken state, along with a toothed whale and a marsupial possum. Whales and possums don't live together, so only a watery catastrophe would have buried them together! In order for such large ammonites and other marine creatures to be buried in the chalk beds of Britain, many trillions of microscopic marine creatures had to bury them catastrophically. These same beds also stretch right across Europe to the Middle East, as well as into the Midwest of the USA, forming a global-scale fossil graveyard. In addition, more than 7 trillion tons of vegetation are buried in the world's coal beds found across every continent, including Antarctica.

Exquisite Preservation

Such was the speed at which many creatures were buried and fossilized-under catastrophic flood conditions-that they were exquisitely preserved. Many fish were buried so rapidly, virtually alive, that even fine details of fins and eye sockets have been preserved. Many trilobites have been so exquisitely preserved that even the compound lens systems in their eyes are still available for detailed study.

Mawsonites spriggi, when discovered, was identified as a fossilized jellyfish. It was found in a sandstone bed that covers more than 400 square miles (1,040 km²) of outback South Australia. Millions of such soft-bodied marine creatures are exquisitely preserved in this sandstone bed.

Consider what happens to soft-bodied creatures like jellyfish when washed up on a beach today. Because they consist only of soft "jelly," they melt in the sun and are also destroyed by waves crashing onto the beach. Based on this reality, the discoverer of these exquisitely preserved soft-bodied marine creatures concluded that all of them had to be buried in less than a day!

Some fish were buried alive and fossilized so quickly in the geologic record that they were "caught in the act" of eating their last meal. Then there is the classic example of a female marine reptile, an ichthyosaur, about 6 feet (2 m) long, found fossilized at the moment of giving birth to her baby! One minute this huge creature was giving birth, then seconds later, without time to escape, mother and baby were buried and "snap frozen" in a catastrophic "avalanche" of lime mud.

Conclusion

These are but a few examples of the many hundreds of fossil graveyards found all over the globe that are now well-documented in the geological literature. The countless billions and billions of fossils in these graveyards, in many cases exquisitely preserved, testify to the rapid burial of once-living plants and animals on a global scale in a watery cataclysm and its immediate aftermath. Often these fossil graveyards consist of mixtures of marine and land-dwelling creatures, indicating that the waters of this global cataclysm swept over both the oceans and the continents.

When we again read the biblical account of the Flood and ask ourselves what evidence we should expect, the answer is obvious-billions of dead plants and animals buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the world. And that's exactly what we find. The global, cataclysmic Genesis Flood and its aftermath was an actual event in history, just as God tells us in His record of earth's history.

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P.S. Note

You may have recently heard "news" information that tries to debunk the water canopy theory put out by the "scientific" community. They have tried to say that the water canopy theory does not hold water under more in-depth scrutiny. Remember that science actually supports it through the mounds of evidence left for us;  not to mention, the Word of God confirms it! Do not be influenced by the smoke and mirrors used by the atheistic community! Remember these "scientists" are very often not scientists at all. They are usually a committee or group of atheists that are trying desperately to cling to their dying evolutionary model.

They know their model does not work. But, instead of re-evaluating their theory or just scrapping it all together, they try to turn towards the overwhelming majority of people in the real scientific community that say the Biblical worldview is true and try to debunk it with their own conjecture. Remember the atheist community is highly invested in their evolutionary paradigm; financially, politically, emotionally, and religiously. They simply cannot step away from their dead "theory" of evolution!

Understand this and continue to pray for them and those that they try to influence in society. Try to educate the populace and yourself about the truth of God's Word and sow the good seed of God in this world.