Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Geology - Advanced/6/en

d. How do creationists, who believe in a universal flood and in a young age for the earth since creation, understand and use the geological time chart?

The geological time chart is constructed by analyzing index fossils. Index fossils are fossils that evolutionists believe existed for a relatively short period of time, and are found on most, if not all the continents. Because evolutionists have assigned dates to the times when the creatures from which these fossils were formed lived, they use this information to date the layers of rock in which they are found. In other words, if they find in a layer of rock a fossil from a creature they believe to have lived between 70 and 80 million years ago, they set the date for that rock at 70-80 million years.