Fossils Buried Fast

Here is something to notice about fossils that most people never think about: *they should not exist.*

Watch what happens to an animal that dies in a field. Within hours, scavengers arrive. Within days, insects and bacteria. Within a season there is very little left, and within a few years, nothing at all. That is the normal end of every creature — to disappear completely. Nothing is preserved.

A fossil is the interruption of that. For a creature to become a fossil, it has to be sealed away from air and scavengers *fast* — buried in sediment quickly enough for minerals to take its shape before decay finishes it. That is not a slow process. It cannot be.

And some fossils are almost impossible to explain slowly. There are fish preserved with smaller fish still in their mouths, caught mid-meal. There are clams fossilized *closed* — a clam relaxes open when it dies, so a closed fossil clam was buried alive. There are creatures fossilized in the act of giving birth. There are jellyfish — animals with no bones at all, which normally leave nothing whatsoever — pressed into stone.

Something buried these things in a hurry. Genesis 7 tells us what.