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Fossils show that life on our planet has a past, and that there is something mysterious about that past. Even if planet Earth had hosted life for billions of years, it would not follow necessarily that there would be mineralised traces of such life. All rocks might have been formed when the planet was formed, and life might have subsisted just on the surface, leaving no trace of its history.
But that is not how things are. The fossil record provides us, wonderfully, with an opportunity to investigate the history of life, almost right back to its beginnings. It is a mystery which we can try to solve, in the hope of answering some of mankind's profoundest questions. Questions such as, Where did life come from? Where did I come from? Do fossils reveal an evolutionary story where there is no essential difference between life and non-life - or something else?
Noah's Ark Zoo Farm is the sponsor of a unique website that addresses these questions - unique because it is the only site anywhere on the net that tells the story of life from a biblical (but non-creationist) perspective.
The fossil record is a record of progressive recolonisation, following a cataclysm which destroyed land and sea at the very beginning of the rock sequence. The Earth in its originally created form cannot therefore 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 have an evolutionary history. They were created with an immense potential for variation over time, and they progressively realised that potential as they multiplied and spread abroad over that continually evolving, vulnerable and unstable world.
To find out more about this new approach, visit the site by clicking on the image.
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