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The biggest problem about this fossil is that its only a half fossil. Thats right only half of the leaf is fossilized, see the pieces missing ? i peeled them off with my finger, the other parts are solid rock, the parts peeled off look and feel like a dead leaf.
Fossils are permineralized. If it looks and feels like a dead leaf, then it is not a fossil.

Millions of years i think not, in all truth, this fossil was "made" by me, i placed it in the perfect conditions and it fossilized in about 1 year.

This is more evidenace supporting a young earth.
How is this supposed to be evidence for a young age of the world? An old earth can have a bunch of young fossils, just like your fossil (if it were one) wouldn't be evidence that the world is only a year old.

The age of the earth sets an upper limit for the age of fossils, and fossils set a lower limit for the age of the earth. Your point falls in neither of these categories.
 
I meant the pieces i peels off were like a dead leaf, the rest of it is solid stone.


Its evidence because fossils don't need millions of years to turn to stone. and all the fossil we see today were form the flood, well probably about 98% of them.
 
johnmuise said:
I meant the pieces i peels off were like a dead leaf, the rest of it is solid stone.
So the dead leaf was not permineralized, i.e. it has not become stone itself yet.


Its evidence because fossils don't need millions of years to turn to stone.
Assuming this to be the case for the sake of this argument...so what? What has this to do with the age of the earth?
 
Half of it is solid stone.

Because contrary to popular belief of the earth being billions of years old, small bits of evidence like this indicate that all the fossil we see might not have taken millions of years to turn to stone. (Noahs Flood) and hence a young earth.
 
johnmuise said:
Half of it is solid stone.
Well, come back when the leaf actually is permineralized. Just being encased in stone doesn't make it a fossil.


Because contrary to popular belief of the earth being billions of years old, small bits of evidence like this indicate that all the fossil we see might not have taken millions of years to turn to stone. (Noahs Flood) and hence a young earth.
What relevance has this regarding the age of the earth? All fossils are younger than the earth. Whether they took a million years to form or just a week is irrelevant to the age of the earth.
 
more proof you don't need millions of yrs. unless of course he is a cave man... :-D
just to show all things can be questioned..
 
That is a calcite concretion around the skeleton, not a permineralisation. The bone is still normal bone. This can be seen here:
http://paleo.cc/paluxy/boottop.jpg
If it were permineralized, then the bone should be solid. Instead we still see the pores in the bone.
 
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