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Evolution Part 2 - Fossils
What are our three tools?
Things We Learn From Fossils
Let’s Look at Fossils!
So, what’s a fossil?
Some fossils trapped in Amber
Some fossils are footprints
Some fossils are whole skeletons
Some remains are frozen in ice
Most fossils are microscopic
Fossils reveal an amazing peek at our earth’s past
Learning About God and His World
Distinguish Fact from Interpretation
What part is fact? What part is someone’s interpretation?
What do bones tell?
Remember: Minority Moth Example
Remember: Horse fossils
Museum Exhibits often add their own interpretation
Just look for the facts.
Dinosaurs are a good example. What is fact and what is interpretation?
Remember: God Teaches Us Through ...
God wants us to look at His Natural Revelation and see His Divine Nature and Power
Three Things to Remember About Fossils
Simplest things not necessarily in the deepest rocks
Horseshoe crabs are similar to trilobytes
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Three Things to Remember About Fossils
No Transitionals: Charles Darwin was hoping for fossil finds to confirm his theory
Not Yet!
Evolutionist Still Hope for some transitional fossil
Dr. Pat Shipman Johns Hopkins Paleontologist
What about Caveman/caveape?
Could this be your great… great… great… grandmother?
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Let’s look at what we see given as evidence for ape to man evolution.
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Ramapithicus
Next Best Candidate--Lucy?
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Human Tree Confusion
Lots of great stories!
What we find are fossil records of different animals that are always different and never turn into something else.
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The last to arrive was man. Gen. 1: 26
Neanderthal Burials
Cave Art
Do you want to see a picture of a caveman?
Variation Typical of Racial Differences
Once again: “Look Daddy...”
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“What is man that thou art mindful of him?”
What really is the difference in us and other living things? Gen. 1:26, 2:7 “made in God’s image”
Dr. Kellogg’s experiment
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T. Dobzansky, 1974
Three Things to Remember About Fossils
Let’s See the Wonder in Our God’s Creation
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