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100 Reasons to Choose Biblical Creation Over Evolution
69. Fossil Fish
Very often, fossil fish are found flattened between very thin strata layers. Somehow these fish were flattened to the thickness of a piece of paper without deformation of the thin layer above it. Note that dead fish usually float but in these instances, the fish were somehow pressed onto the sea floor. How does this happen? Current physical processes seem inadequate to explain these types of fossils. Liquifaction during the flood of Noah is the key.
As the sediments were being continually reshuffled and sorted into thin layers due to the enormous tidal forces above, the dead fish would have migrated upward through the more dense sediments into what is known as a water lens (a layer of water between sediments, created from the pressures of the passing waves above). The fish would have floated in the water lens until the next wave crest passed directly above it. The downward pressure produced would have then forced the roof of the lens down onto the fish, flattening it into its present condition. Because fish are commonly found in this condition around the world, a global catastrophe involving massive liquifaction episodes is likely to have occurred. Again, the flood of Noah appears to have been an actual event.
Liquifaction during the flood. As the wave peak moves overhead, sediments are compressed. As the peak passes and the trough moves in, water stored within the sediments is forced upward. As the process repeats itself the sediments are sorted into distinct horizontal layers. A lens is created when the permeability of layers beneath is greater than the layers above. This sorting action would have caused dead fish to be pushed up into the liquefaction lenses where they were eventually crushed when the "roof" collapsed. This is where their flattened bodies became fossils. This scenario explains the very existence of fish fossils, and their peculiar flattened condition under thin sedimentary layers. (The image above is from Walt Brown's excellent website www.creationscience.com, where liquefaction is explained in greater detail).
I photographed this explanation for how fish are fossilized in the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. This explanation is totally inadequate. It totally ignores the fact that fish are without exception scavenged long before they reach the bottom. Nor does it explain how these fish could be squeezed into the thickness of a piece of paper under such thin sedimentary layers.