Contorted positions of fossil animals indicate rapid burial (Talk.Origins)

Claim CC361.3:


 * The contorted positions of fossil animals indicate that they were rapidly buried alive.

Source:
 * Brown, Walt, 1995. In the Beginning: Compelling evidence for creation and the flood, 6th ed. Phoenix, AZ: Center for Scientific Creation, p. 9.

CreationWiki response:

While this explains some, such as Brown's Figure 9, in some cases fossils are twisted around each other, which does not occur by drying ligaments.


 * 1) While scavengers will disturb corpses, they also tend to scatter them, leaving little to fossilize.
 * 2) Water currents strong enough to contort a corpse will also tend to scatter it, leaving little to fossilize.

Evolutionists are free to interpret the evidence any way they want to. But it is interesting that Talk Origins chose to attack only one of several examples, such as well-preserved soft tissue, compressed fossils, and fossils buried in the act of doing things such as eating.

It is true that by itself evidence of rapid burial does not prove a global flood, but it is just one of several lines of support for such a flood.

Posições contorcidas dos animais fósseis indicam sepultamento rápido (Talk.Origins)