When is a fossil not? Human remains and the subjective self-
serving definitions of evolutionists This weekend we feature an
enquiry from Carol B of Ontario, Canada, about human fossils, to
which Andrew Lamb replies. I have been teaching a ‘Creation 101’
elective ... at my church. I understand why there are not many
human fossils created during the Flood, but the question came up
of why there are not more human fossils since the Flood. I know
that Neanderthals buried their dead, and that accounts for those
fossils. But shouldn’t we find more fossils since humans do bury
their dead? If one includes deliberate human burials, there are
indeed more post-Flood human fossils, in fact millions of them.
However, general convention is to not describe old and ancient
human remains as fossils if they are from a deliberate burial.
The term fossil seems to be reserved for those sad cases in
which human remains have been preserved accidentally, without
the trappings of burial such as coffin or jar, dug hole or built
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