Secular Geologists Invoking Flood Explanations

To restate, uniformitarianism is the belief in slow and gradual processes over long periods of time. The present is the key to the past, secular geologists believe. We have pointed out many times that such gradual processes do not explain much at all, and there is evidence for a young earth.

The secular science industry was forced to occasionally use catastrophic processes such as floods. Uniformitarian processes and the standard fossilization story are unacceptable to thinking people who know something about geology and fossilization. So, there are areas of agreement between creationists and secularists, but the secular side is still lacking.

Maximo the crocodile underwater, Library of Congress / Carol M. Highsmith

A crocodile fossil was found, and it had died after eating a small dinosaur. Quite often, the regional floods invoked by paleontologists would be too weak to provide the fossilization and geological evidence that they are attempting to explain. What would be more consistent is if they would cowboy up and admit that the global Genesis Flood explains many pieces of data far better than what they use now.

A fossilized crocodile discovered about one metre below the surface in the Winton Formation in Queensland, Australia, had a young dinosaur in its stomach. That ornithopod (a bipedal herbivore) under 2 kg became the last supper—either scavenged or ambushed—for the extinct crocodyliform. This reptile, appropriately named Confractosuchus sauroktonos (broken crocodile, lizard killer), was dated between 92.5 and 104 million years old. They recovered about 35% of the crocodile’s 2–2.5 m body, with an almost complete skull. However, “the abdominal region preserving the ornithopod was badly damaged by excavation equipment prior to its discovery”.

To bite down on the rest of the article, see "Flood-buried crocodile’s last supper was a dinosaur."