New Fossil with an Impossible Evolutionary Explanation

Borealopelta Royal Tyrrell

Evolutionists are rightly famous for their ability to spin mythological “just so” stories that explain their beliefs. (In 1902, Rudyard Kipling published Just So Stories for Little Children containing imaginative explanations for how animals got their attributes.) A new fossil on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta is an example. The fossilized Borealopelta, which is supposedly 110 million years old, is called “one of the most spectacular fossil finds of all time.” This is because it is preserved intact: skin, soft tissue, bones. It looks like a stuffed animal. It is a “heavy-set, low-slung, tank-like dinosaur” that weighed 1.5 tons and was 20 feet long (“A Dinosaur So Well Preserved,” The Atlantic, Aug. 3, 2017). The fossil was discovered in 2011 by a heavy-equipment operator working the Millennium Mine oil sand quarry in northern Alberta. After years of tedious work to extract the fossil from a 15,000-pound block that was removed from the mine, it recently went on display at the Royal Tyrrell, a museum with world-class fossils accompanied by world-class “just so” stories. Consider the explanation of how this creature was fossilized: “Somehow, this particular individual ended up at sea. Perhaps it got careless on a shoreline. Perhaps it drowned in a flood and was washed out to sea. Either way, gases started building up in its body, causing it to float belly-up. As those gases released, the dead dinosaur sank, and hit the ocean floor hard enough to leave a small crater. Before sharks had a chance to nibble it, or worms had a chance to bury into its bones, it was quickly smothered by fine sediment and sealed off from the outside world. There it remained for millions of years, until March 11, 2011, when an excavator bit into it” (Ibid.). This is an impossible explanation of the type of fossilization exhibited in the Borealopelta. Creatures don’t fossilize like this naturally. When a creature dies and sinks into the ocean, it is devoured by sea creatures, bacteria, and worms, long before it can be covered with sediment and sealed off. In fact, the fossilization exhibited in the Borealopelta is the result of an ultra-rapid, extraordinary event that happened in an ocean that once covered Alberta. That sounds exactly like the biblical flood, but evolutionary scientists would rather make up an unscientific story than give any credence to the Bible. One fine day, as prophesied in Scripture, the museums of this world will be filled with truth rather than lies. “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14). The myth of evolution and the scoffers who promote it unwittingly prove that the Bible is God’s Word, because they were prophesied in the Bible 2,000 years ago. “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men” (2 Peter 3:3-7).

​(Friday Church News Notes, October 19, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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