How can we even know what happened millions of years ago?

2. How can you know what happened millions of years ago if no one was there to see it? Evidence and observation are the building blocks of all scientific inquiry; evolutionary science is no different. The theory of evolution puts these clues together into a cohesive explanation of the diversity of living things.

How can a scientist know what happened millions of years ago if no one was there to see it?

Evidence in the form of the fossil record, geological formations, and genetics attest to change having taken place and give clues to how evolution works.

How do we date things millions of years old?

Scientists called geochronologists are experts in dating rocks and fossils, and can often date fossils younger than around 50,000 years old using radiocarbon dating. This method has been used to provide dates for all kinds of interesting material like cave rock art and fossilized poop.

Why don’t we have fossils from cats that lived twenty years ago?

Accept any response that refers to fossils taking a long time to form, such as: ‘There are no fossils of cats from twenty years ago because fossils take millions of years to make. Twenty years isn’t long enough to make a fossil.

How do Creationary scientists date fossils?

How do Creationary scientists date fossils? They date fossils from the Flood. The age of most fossils is nearly the same.

How do we know dinosaurs are millions of years old?

There are two ways to determine the age of a dinosaur fossil. One is called relative geologic time, which involves deciding whether one dinosaur fossil is older or younger than another. The other is often called absolute geologic time, which involves estimating how many millions of years old a dinosaur fossil is.

How do bones last millions of years?

Its bones are protected from rotting by layers of sediment. As its body decomposes all the fleshy parts wear away and only the hard parts, like bones, teeth, and horns, are left behind. Over millions of years, water in the nearby rocks surrounds these hard parts, and minerals in the water replace them, bit by bit.

Why have we only know about dinosaurs for 200 years?

Accept responses that refer to the link between fossils being discovered and dinosaurs, such as: ‘We have only known about dinosaurs for 200 years because dinosaurs lived so long ago that fossils are the only evidence of them that has survived this long.

How many years ago did dinosaurs die out?

There is no evidence that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and in fact no evidence that there WAS a 65 million years ago. All of these ages are based first on faith in the evolutionary story, which is then the lens used to examine evidence.

How do we know the age of the first fossils?

We can know that through dating methods like the widely known Carbon Dating. The youngest fossil we know of dates back to around 65 million years ago. No fossils younger than that have been found after this. It’s to be noted that a mass extinction occurred around this time so none of the terrestrial dinosaurs survived.

Why are there gaps in the fossil record?

They say the fossil record fails to show what are called “transitional forms,” generally the in-between stages as one type of creature evolved into another. The fossil record certainly has gaps, mostly because the conditions required to create fossils have been rare ever since life began on Earth.