Fish School Fossil — Anything but the Flood

Paleontologists were shocked — shocked, I tell you — to find a slab of limestone fossil with a school of fish. The standard myth (which just about anyone can refute with using their think bones and observations) is that fish die, sink to the bottom of the water, and are gradually fossilized.

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Deniers of the global Genesis Flood try desperately to find rescuing devices to avoid that the evidence clearly illustrates. One jasper even suggested that they died en masse before they were buried, which only made things worse. Or was it global warming?

When a fish or something dies, it decays, gets scavenged, or something else happens. It does not lay there waiting to turn into a fossil. The right circumstances must be present. The fact that a number of these fish were obviously caught while schooling gives evidence for the Genesis Flood, old son.

A limestone shale slab from the Green River Formation, USA, has incredibly ‘captured’ a mass of 257 fish swimming together in a school. The fish, each just under 1 in (2.5 cm) long, belong to an extinct species, Erismatopterus levatus. Just before being fossilised they were swimming in the same direction. Swimming together in a school is a dynamic process and this slab amazingly preserves, in ‘freeze frame’ as it were, this coordinated collective motion. Such discoveries are rare. As pointed out in the New York Times, “It’s difficult, for instance, to find evidence of schooling fish in the fossil record. You need just the right circumstances to fossilize something like a school of fish in place within a rock. Then, that rock has to survive intact long enough for a paleontologist to discover it and study it”.

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