It's Not a Boulder
What is a fossil that is used to determine the age of the surrounding rock layers?
Index fossils
What are bone-forming cells?
Osteocytes
What is a state of equilibrium with very little change?
Stasis
What is the idea that in an undistrubed rock layer, the oldest rock layers will be on the bottom and the youngest rocks iwll be on the top?
Principle of superposition
What are the fossils foudn in pre-Cambrian rock that were found to be distinct form any other forms of life?
Ediacarans
What structure in whales would have been nearly impossible to evolve over millions of years and maintain functionality?
Melons
What is correlating the rocks?
What is the Coelacanth?
Believed to be a transitional form between fish and amphibians
Where should Carbon-14 not be found?
Anything older than 55,000 years old.
Evolution should be slow (tons of fossils). However, the fossils seem to appear out of nowhere in the fossil record. This indicates that the organisms appeared out of nowhere, rather than evolving from a common ancestor.
List three reptilian characterstics of Archaeopteryx and explain where they are found in modern birds.
Claws on its wings (baby ostriches have them)
Flat breastbone (as do many modern birds)
Teeth (chickens can if the correct gene is turned on)
Why is the horse series not a great example of evolution?
The hoof of a one-toed horse was foundin the same layer as a three-toed horse (indicating they existed at the same time (unlikely that one was an ancestor). The toe gene can be turned off or on.
The fossils of horse "ancestors" vary as widely as the skeletons of modern horses
List two different soft tissues found in fossils and how evolutionists explain them.
Blood vessels found in a T. Rex bone believed to be over 65 million years old. Blood should not last that long.
Osteocytes and protein found in duck-billed dion that should be 80 million years old.
Evolutionists reason that soft tissue must survive must longer than originally thought
List the five questions about new fossils.
How much of the fossil was found?
Where the fossil parts found close togetehr or far away?
How were the fossils dated?
How much of the fossil shows proof of it being a transition fossil?
Do the fossils demonstrate devolution or evolution?
Why are Rodhocetus and Basilosaurus not good examples of evolution?
Rodhocetus - no observable bones that wouold allow it to have a whale's tail. No observable bones that would prove that its pelvis was fused to its skeleton