A new interpretation of the fossil sequence

Fossils show that life on our planet has a past, and that there is something mysterious about that past. Even if Earth had hosted life for billions of years, it would not necessarily follow that there would be mineralised traces of such life. There might not have been a rock cycle causing older sediments to be successively buried and life might have existed just on the surface, leaving no trace of its history.

But that is not how things are. The fossil record provides us with an opportunity to investigate the history of life, almost back to its beginnings. It is a mystery which we can try to solve in the hope of answering some of man's profoundest questions.

Noah's Ark Zoo Farm is privileged to be the sponsor of a unique website that seeks to answer some of these questions - unique because it is the only creation-oriented site that values the findings of modern geology. The sequence of events from the earliest period up to the present day is therefore accepted. We do not suggest that geological science must be reinvented before the evidence can confirm the (supposed) biblical perspective. Our startling proposal is that what we now know about Earth history has, rather, turned out to be fully consistent with it.

Organisms have changed over time because the Earth has been constantly changing; they had to adapt if they were not to perish. The rock sequence follows a cataclysm which destroyed the Earth, and the fossils in the rocks record the Earth's recolonisation. The original Earth therefore cannot be studied. What can be studied are lands and oceans which formed by natural processes after the cataclysm. To that extent they have an evolutionary history, just as the organisms which recolonised them do. Plants and animals were created with an immense potential for variation, and in the new world they progressively realised that potential as they multiplied and spread abroad.

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