Polystrate Fossils
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The essence of the creationist blunder about polystrate fossils seems to be that they think that geologists think that one layer of sediment takes a million years or so to be deposited, or that there are million-year gaps between the deposition of the layers, as in this example culled randomly from the Internet:
- Like trees go thru your sediment layers evolutionists still hold these layers represent millions of years. [1]
For more information on what creationists think that geologists think about this subject, see our main article on the Creationist Bedding Blunder.
But of course, geologists think no such thing; they are well aware that the beds in sedimentary deposits are deposited much more frequently than that: often they are the result of annual deposition. Hence, any fossil which takes more than a year to be buried by such a process should be polystrate.
