How a fossil is made

One for geology fans (full version). A dvd with commentary is available - please contact me for details (http://www.osisdesign.co.uk)

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• ichthyosaur
• geology
• jurassic
• osis design

[shannonr]

What I have no time for is dogma, religious or scientific. This video is meant to illustrate a theory, one that has an incredible amount of supporting evidence, but just a theory all the same. If anyone has a reasonable counter theory by all means post it here, but please leave out petulant anthropomorphic creators who atone for wholesale destruction by tossing out rainbows... it just won't wash anymore.

[shannonr]

Nowadays, we still have people who look at the sky and dream, we still have religious dogma, and we also have science, which descended from all branches of thought and had a hard time establishing itself due in many cases to religious intolerance of unorthodox thought. I applaud the mystics, I listen with respect to scientists knowing that they may be mistaken, and I also have respect for some religious tradition, as I know it brings much comfort and reassurance to people.

[shannonr]

Before 'science', our first thinkers were probably mystics, after many generations some of their ideas were codified into religious theory, which in many cases became religious dogma, because as religion becomes organised it rejects dissent in order to cement its authority.

[shannonr]

However, as we are generally inquisitive it pleases us to try and find answers to life's riddles, and just giving up because 'we can never really know' would mean that we would never look at the sky and wonder about what is really up there. So we attempt to find answers.

[shannonr]

OK - I made this to illustrate a scientific theory that attempts to explain the presence of 'fossilised' remains found around the world. Scientific theories are proved wrong from time to time, they are just best guesses based on often painstaking research and experiment, but many are and will remain 'unprovable' because we are not magic beings who can know and understand everything that has happened or will happen. For all we know everything we experience may be an illusion.

[shannonr]

Hey everyone. If you disagree with this video because of what's in a book thats fine. Maybe there ought to be a notes section in the back of your book where you can put more of your ideas and comments...

[theTIck197]

@ExtremeWorship

Just so you know, and for anyone else who is interested and bothers to read youtube comments, when a continental plate is pushed into another continental plate, such as india going into asia to form the himilayas, the fossils that formed on the ancient sea bed are scraped onto the forming mountains and are brought higher and higher as the mountains continue to form.

source: I am a geophysics major

hail Satan

[LoricaLady]

@carlsm95 Cont. Oh,& while we're on the topic of the vast number of fossils out there, why don't we see any of the following things that evolutionists told us happened: fins turning into feet, fish turning into tetrapods, scales turning into feathers, tetrapods turning into birds. How come we only see 100% of each & 0 inbetweeners? (Plz don't say archaeotpteryx as many evolutionists had acknowledged it's no "transition", but just "a perching bird.") Personally I believe the fossils, not them.

[apaulstate]

This is without doubt one of the stupidest theories I have ever seen. Any high school drop out know that NO creature dies and then lies around for centuries waiting to be buried in sediment. Scavengers, large and small, bacteria, ultraviolet rays and so forth quickly consume all flesh, scatter the bones, eat the bones, disolve the bones etc. Animals, plants and their parts MUST be buried instanlty to become fossils. To dispute this is sheer lunacy.

[MrJonkelp]

you have some great stuff here

[TheSpikeystuff]

brilliant video

[FLTOPS2009]

I think you klickt to much on the post butten

[carlsm95]

@LoricaLady Don't tell me about debating with "civility" and "objectivity" when you already have very skewed and slanted views. I dont insult but I can understand why some do because creationists can be frustrating to talk to. Everything you just said in your several comments is based on ignorance, I've already heard and theyve already been refuted many times. But of course, due to their way of thinking that they must be right no matter what, creationists refuse to listen. So bye.