Sometimes, it's the little things that highlight the utter absurdity of the YEC worldview which asserts that not only is the Earth a mere 6000 years old, practically all the fossils were deposited by a global flood in a period lasting under one year a mere 4500 years ago. One of the best sources of such YEC-defeating material comes from Dr Joel Duff, whose website Naturalis Historia has featured here more than once. The last few posts at his website have features some of these fascinating glimpses into the past, including:
- A communal latrine in Argentina approximately 200 million years old used by mammal-like reptiles
- Fossilised moa footprints in New Zealand around 1 million years old
- Fossilised snakes in a dinosaur nest from the late Cretaceous around 67 million years ago
- A 'lost Grand Canyon' in Egypt.
Mainstream geology has no problem explaining these discoveries, but as Duff points out, YECs who start with their conclusion - a young Earth and a single recent cataclysmic event operating over a few months as the mechanism which created these phenomena - have insuperable problems to face.
