Fish Fossils

Fossils.  What comes to mind when you read that word?  Most people think of dinosaur bones or other animal bones.  But, fossils are so much more than just dinosaurs, or even bones.  The majority of the fossils we find are fish, which fits quite well with the global flood account recorded in Genesis.  After all, there would be no boundaries between land and sea in a worldwide flood, so it is no surprise that we find fish fossils all over the earth.  Paleontologists have even discovered fish fossils on top of mountains far away from the ocean, which would be expected due to a worldwide flood that covered the mountains (see Genesis 7:18-20).

Not only does the fact that we find fish fossils all over the earth line up with what the Bible says, but the fossils themselves (all fossils, not just fish fossils) also show signs of being buried by a global flood.  If the fossils we are examining are a result of the world wide flood, we would expect to see signs that they were buried very quickly in water deposited rock layers.  We find fossils of one fish eating another, a small dinosaur with his head bent backwards, indicating that he was choking on muddy water when he died, and many other fossils that must have died catastrophically and been fossilized very quickly thereafter.

My all-time favorite kind of fossil is actually not any kind of dinosaur, intriguing as they are, but a kind of fish fossils – jellyfish.  The term “jellyfish fossil” sounds like a contradiction in and of itself, and it would be impossible if evolution were true (which is not logically possible).  How could a jellyfish, which is over 95% water and melts rapidly, survive long enough to be captured in the fossil record?  The answer is clear; the catastrophic world-wide flood recorded in Genesis must have captured these jellyfish and rapidly fossilized them before they had time to melt.