I've only had this explained to me a few times, so if anyone's more
familiar with this story, please correct me! Anyway, this is the way to
explain all the
dinosaur bones and layers of
Earth containing them:
So, once upon a time, long long ago but right here on
spaceship Earth, but before the
time of
Noah, lizards were really, really big and humans lived a long time.
What in the world could cause this? More
oxygen, of course! You know how
the
Greenhouse Effect works, right? Think like that, only with a big layer of
water surrounding the
atmosphere, keeping lots of oxygen in. And that water
was perfectly fine just where it was until
God got mad and let it fall --
Noah's
flood! Naturally, the flood made the Earth a little muddy. Reptiles got buried in
the lowest layers of the mud because they were too dumb to find higher ground. The animals got buried
according to how far up they were able to make it before drowning, which might explain the apparent
evolution in soil layers - they're all really the same age, though.
Oh yeah, and the
antediluvian atmospheric oxygen content also messed with
things like
Carbon-14 content. All modern animals are
descended from the ones taken on the
ark... probably all the smallest models that
were available at the time; I mean, if you drove a
Ford Festiva, would you take a
german shephard cross country or a miniature
pomeranian?
Et voila.
(By the way, not even most of the
Creationists I know would tell you this one, but it's definitely the most amusing/disturbing twisting of science I've been earnestly told. Sorry I couldn't tell it with a straight face... it's much more effective that way.)