Where”s the missing link?
When we look at the oldest sedimentation layers which contain animal fossils we do not find any cattle. We do not find any mammals. We do not find any fossils of animals that are alive today. When we look at younger layers we see a different set of animals. Eventually we come upon layers which do contain fossils of animals alive today. What are we to make of this? Are we to believe that new animals came into existence on a regular basis as the older ones became extinct? Our current knowledge of physics says that matter cannot be created or destroyed. The Bible says that all the land animals were created on the sixth day. This, clearly, does not explain what we see either as there is no livestock amongst early fossils. What we do have is a mystery that seems to be explained very well by the theory of evolution. Some fossils span several sedimentation layers. Does this disprove evolution, or does it show that some species have evolved to a point that natural selection has not ”weeded” them out yet? And the “Evolution hall of shame.” Curious how all of those fossils purport only the missing link in man”s evolution. It would appear that faking other animals” evolution isn”t as profitable. So why haven”t we found the missing link? After all, haven”t we uncovered all of the fossils on the earth? Half? One thousandth? One millionth? Looks like we have a long dig ahead of us. So in the meantime we hold this theory up for scrutiny and wait for the discovery that will bring it down. And what about petrified trees? When I see one exposed by weathering I see a harder substance resisting more than the surrounding sedimentary rock. So, if a standing tree is covered by mud and fossilized and then the surrounding mud is partly weathered away and another mud layer covers this up, then I have an explanation of why an upright petrified tree penetrates several sedimentation layers.
— Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
