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DESCENDING THE EVOLUTIONARY LADDER
Paleontology is the study of
fossils, which are the mineralised remains of living things. Paleontologists
obtain useful information from trace fossils, (ichnofossils) the marks left
behind in rocks by living things; tracks or footprints, fossil faeces (coprolites),
worm trails etc. Paleontology is generally considered a specialist school of
geology and/or the intersection of geology and biology. Creationists do not
like paleontology because it provides hard evidence that life evolved over
billions of years, and was not created over the course of six days, six to
ten thousand years ago. There is no denying that the fossil record has been
extremely relevant to the history of evolutionary theory and was a very
strong source of evidence for early pioneers in the field. |
