Over the last several weeks we looked at this issue ~ If dinosaurs and people lived together, why do we find dinosaur fossils but no humans in the same layers, supposedly not even remnants of their civilizations? While various creationists have postulated several scenarios, here are the last three more possibilities that I personally would suggest:

5 - Consider that most of the earth - by far! - is untouched regarding the digging of fossils. Areas where fossils are dug from the ground represent an extremely tiny percentage of the surface of the planet compared to the places where they are not. Just because human fossils have not been found among the dinosaur bones does not mean that they don’t exist. It could possibly mean that they just haven’t been discovered yet. 

Critics will say the same thing about Noah’s Ark. If it was a true story, then where is the ark, and why can’t it be found? They assume that since it hasn’t been found that therefore the flood did not happen.

6 - Another scenario could potentially be hinted at by considering what the Lord says in Luke 17:26-29: “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.  It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.”

The flood destruction could literally have been total annihilation. It is possible that there was not much, if anything, to fossilize of the people who lived at that time. 

7 - Major relics of human civilization would be mostly at the bottom of the sedimentary layers of the geological column, under what is now known as the Paleozoic Cambrian layer - at the red arrow. Where the flood sediments begin, that layer is where someone who wants to find major evidence of pre-flood civilizations should look, not in the very upper layers, which are post-flood. Nobody is looking where major evidence and perhaps most relics would most likely be found.

Next time, a surprising conclusion....

In Christ,