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LESSON 7

LESSON 7. THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION. Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of an organism. Permineralization occurs when the pores of the plant or animal remains are impregnated by minerals.  When this happens, the original shape of the object is not changed.

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LESSON 7

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  1. LESSON 7 THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION

  2. Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of an organism.

  3. Permineralization occurs when the pores of the plant or animal remains are impregnated by minerals.  When this happens, the original shape of the object is not changed.

  4. Petrifaction is a type of permineralization.  It occurs when the organic matter is completely replaced by minerals and the fossil turns to stone.

  5. Molds and Casts Casts and molds are types of fossils where the physical characteristics of organisms have been impressed onto rocks.  This happened when organisms became buried or trapped in mud, clay, or other materials which hardened around them.  The bodies decayed, leaving molds of the organism.

  6. Impressions

  7. Fossils can even be frozen remains in ice.

  8. To form a sedimentary fossil it takes rapid burial, heat, and pressure.

  9. Evolution would predict that the further one went back in time the less valuable the classification system would be as animals combined together.

  10. Kingdom - AnamaliaPhylum- ChordataClass - MammaliaOrder - PrimateFamily - HominidaeGenus - HomoSpecies - sapiens

  11. Species are on the tips of the branches

  12. Missing Links

  13. Creation predicts that as one goes back into the fossil record, that the classification system will function just as it does for present organisms.

  14. When we look at the fossil record and compare it to today we see extinction rather than evolution.

  15. People have been indoctrinated into believing that fossils support evolution.

  16. In reality the fossil record argues against evolution and in favor of creation.

  17. Darwin thought that the fossil evidence was the most obvious and serious objection to his theory.

  18. In his chapter, “On the Imperfection of the Geologic Record”, he dealt with the sudden appearance of groups of fossils.

  19. He wrote, “… intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic change, and this is perhaps the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.

  20. When faced with these facts, Darwin chose to discard them. He believed that future discoveries would uncover the “missing links”.

  21. Fossil evidence of Plants?

  22. According to fossil pollen, dinosaurs ate oak, willow, magnolia, sassafras, palms, and many other common flowering plants.

  23. Flowering plants first appear suddenly and in great diversity in the Cretaceous period. They were complete and fully formed.

  24. Darwin called the origin of these plants “an abominable mystery”.

  25. E.J.H. Corner, Professor of Botany at Cambridge University stated…

  26. “… to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

  27. How about Vertebrates?

  28. Archaeopteryx

  29. Archaeopteryx had feathers, wings, and a beak like a bird.

  30. Like reptiles, it had teeth in the bill, claws on the wings, no breast bone, an unfused backbone, and a long bony tail.

  31. The ostrich has claws on its wings that are more reptile-like than Archaeopteryx.

  32. Several birds, such as the Hoatzin do not have much of a keel.

  33. No living birds have socketed teeth, but some fossil birds did.Some reptiles have teeth, some do not. This is not used as a means of classification.

  34. There is no clue to how the legs evolved into wings. They are fully formed and functional.

  35. The feathers are completely developed with hooks and eyelets for zipping and unzipping.

  36. Archaeopteryx had several types of feathers, and seem to indicate that he was a strong flyer.

  37. The furcula (wishbone) is the attachment for the muscles for the power stroke in flight.

  38. Though Archaeopteryx did not have a keel, he had a robust furcula.

  39. Many believe that Archaeopteryx should be considered an early bird, not a missing link.

  40. In a Texas quarry, bird bones were found that are older and deeper than the specimens of Archaeopteryx.

  41. Pro-avis

  42. There is NO evidence for Pro-avis. It is a hypothetical pre-bird that John Ostrom of Yale believes must have existed.

  43. Evolution contains much circular reasoning. Rocks are dated by their fossils, and fossils are arranged to fit the evolutionary theory. How than can one say that fossils prove evolution when they have been arranged by evolutionists.

  44. Scientists use “indicator fossils” to date the strata!

  45. Scientists then arrange the fossils according to their evolutionary theory.

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