The video argues that a person has only about a 1-in-tens-of-millions chance of fossilizing. Rapid burial, low oxygen, and suitable chemistry can improve preservation, but they are not universal requirements, and the cited evidence does not establish that exact odds estimate for an individual human. The human fossil record is sparse—not virtually nonexistent—and includes remains older than 100,000 years. 🦴
Human fossils are rare, but the video's odds estimate is unsupported
Key facts
- Rapid burial, low oxygen, and suitable chemistry can promote fossilization, but they are not universal requirements.
- The video estimates roughly a 1-in-tens-of-millions chance for an individual human to fossilize; the cited results do not establish this estimate for individual humans.
- The human fossil record is sparse but real and includes human and hominin fossils older than 100,000 years.
Sources
How can I become a fossil? - BBCbbc.com
Less than one-10th of 1% of all species that have ever lived became fossils. But from skipping a coffin to avoiding Iran, there are ways to ...
What are the odds of a dead dinosaur becoming fossilized?scientificamerican.com
It is often stated in the paleontological literature that the chance an animal will become fossilized is "one in a million."
How Long do Fossils Take to Form? - Geoscience Research Institutegrisda.org
Modern observations tell us that only a very small proportion of the organisms living in a given environment will eventually become fossilized.
Fossilization is Rare - 8TH-GRADE SCIENCEscience8sc.weebly.com
Not many plants and animals are lucky enough to last 10,000 years or more and be turned into fossils. When an animal or plant dies its remains usually rot ...
Experiment: Fast-Formed Fossils - Answers in Genesisanswersingenesis.org
Do fossils require millions of years to form? Hardly! Even secular geologists now recognize that rocks form very quickly.
Why Don't We Find More Human Fossils?icr.org
For purposes of discussion, let us assume 300,000,000 people died in the Flood, and that each one was preserved as a fossil evenly distributed ...
Where Are All the Human Fossils?answersingenesis.org
All of these factors greatly lengthen the odds of finding a human fossil today. Differential Suspension. Not only would the turbulence of the ...
2. The process of fossilizationdigitalatlasofancientlife.org
a key factor seems to be very rapid burial in sediments with very little oxygen present; The low amount of oxygen is important because it slows the ...
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