Geology: Forming of the Fossils - Assignment Example

The history and arguments about the origin of the earth and evolution have given many scientists sleepless nights trying to unearth what might have happened long before we came into being. Scientists hope that one day the matter will be put to rest by providing evidence and being able to prove to the world beyond any reasonable doubt that certain specific activities took place. Their progress is mainly centered on the rocks which are the source of their evidence. The discovery of rocks that will provide the evidence and chronological evidence was a great milestone.

The religious divide, on the other hand, seems to disagree with the idea of millions of years and squeeze it to before six days of creation (Dawkins. 2012). Having gone through all this for years I tend to agree with the scientist. “Young Earthers,” are ignoring the overwhelming “scientific” evidence for an old Earth. Both the scientist and men of religion do certainly agree on the story of Noah and the arc (Dawkins. 2012). The scientist then went ahead to study the consequence that such a catastrophe might have left on the surface of the earth.

Because the flood did take place it must have left some effects on the surface of the earth. This argument is so compelling because looking at millions of years of erosion at the Colorado River the Grand Canyon was formed and such activity must have taken place during Noah’s flood (Dawkins. 2012). Many geologists, who are Christian and non-Christian, have looked at the hundreds of thousands of feet of rock layers and fossils worldwide and have simply assumed that the Flood didn’t produce them (Dawkins. 2012). They went ahead and invented theories that those rock layers and fossils formed long ago before we came into existence.

We can’t ignore the fact that a global, year-long, catastrophic Flood did happen at the time of Noah. We can say this without a doubt because of the authority of the historical record in the book Genesis. Such a catastrophe must have therefore left a massive amount of geological evidence (Dawkins. 2012). Since the flood took place it must have buried both vegetation and creatures and as water recede it must have eroded many of the sediments laid down in the first half of the Flood and redeposit them elsewhere (Dawkins. 2012). As we look at the thousands of feet of rock layers and fossils worldwide surely Flood could have produced them.

If such an event was to take place today, it will be naïve for us to think that no geological features will result from it. Therefore thinking that Noah’s flood left no geological feature is not right. If we believe that the geological establishment that the earth is billions of years old and shows no sign of a worldwide Flood then we will contradict our belief in Noah’s Flood (Dawkins. 2012). As John Morris put it when a fish dies, it rots and is fed on by scavengers (Dawkins. 2012).

But if fish fossils are preserved and even the scales and organs are preserved then there will be no time for bacterial action. We can then say that something extraordinary happened to form the fossils.