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To: fwdude
Fossilized in animals = mummified in humans.

Wrong. Any animal can be mummified, artificially or naturally--I've seen mummified cats in Egypt, and scientists have found at least one mummified mammoth. In mummies, the original tissue is still present.

Generally, fossilization occurs when the original tissue has been replaced by minerals--turned to rock, basically. It is possible for an animal to be naturally mummified and then fossilized, but it's not necessary.

What doesn't exist is a fossilized cat (or human), or a mummified (but not fossilized) dinosaur.

114 posted on 01/05/2014 3:30:57 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
QUOTE: "What doesn't exist is a fossilized cat..."

Not sure what you mean. A simple Google search reveals all kinds of fossilized cats, including the popular Sabre Toothed Tiger, Proailurus, Hoplophoneus, Panthera Blytheae, etc.

Incidentally, not all definitions of fossil include the idea on mineral migration into bone. eg Merriam-Webster: "a remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust".
Dictionary.com defines it as "any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc. "

Semantics, I know.

115 posted on 01/05/2014 5:49:54 PM PST by jimmyray
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
What doesn't exist is a fossilized cat (or human)

Ever hear of the cataclysm of Pompeii?

122 posted on 01/06/2014 7:30:37 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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