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Dictionary » F » Fossil FossilFossil 1. Dug out of the eart; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. 2. (Science: paleontology) like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. Whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near london, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. 3. (Science: paleontology) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living. 4. a person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. The remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil.Characteristic of a fossil.The degraded remains of a dead organism that is buried under the sediments on the land surface that accumulate over a long period of time, which helps to preserve the fossil in this timeframe. ![]()
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Results from our forumRe: Any other explanations other than Mutation?... phenomenon of objects falling. Does this mean gravity does not exist, or is not a factual phenomenon? Nicely put. If evolution had happened, the fossil record should be showing the unselected species which died because of weak traits, such as an unusable leg because it is part fin. Again mechanically ...
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?... is then from exchanging plasmids. But these are separate transient genomes not the genome that accomplishes reproduction. There are "living fossils" that have changed so little it seems to us that they should have become a new species by now or at least new morphology. But this change ...
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?... or order? You see there is flexibility within a given model, just like you have flexibility in your model. The rabbits are still rabbits, and the fossil record shows fully formed organisms, not extinct transitions which were not selected (not deformities but species who didn't make it because ...
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?... lemur like Ida and hail it as "finally the missing link!" Which is an admission by scientists of the lack of transitional forms in the fossil records. Since the human race is so smart, why do we have children killing people in school, why do we have serial killers. Why do we have educated ...
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?... where ends tangled the rearranging of the chromosome territories may have already produced a noticeable morphological change. Morphology based fossil evidence dates human speciation to roughly 6 million years ago, which is in the range of estimates for the chromosome fusion. When detailed in ...
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