Fossil record

In recent centuries, people have found pieces of rock and other hard material with indentations that look like the remains of dead organisms. Dating these by methods such as radiocarbon dating would seem to indicate that various organisms lived and died at certain times and places.

For those scientists who accept the idea that fossils show the shape of dead organisms and place them in geological time, the body of discovered fossils constitutes the fossil record.

Adherents of Darwinian evolution and Intelligent Design both accept the fossil record. Adherents of Suddend Creationism do not.