What is the significance of rock and fossil evidence?
Like clues in a crime the police do not initially identify a person they want to pin the crime on and then seek to tie him to the event – they find a number of clues which identify potential subjects of interest. They then attempt to prove the relation of these suspects to the crime until the trail of evidence is strong and dependable. Usually multiple facts on the same evidence are considered – for a crime it might be fingerprints and video tape and eye witnesses, for fossils it could be carbon 14 and dendronchronology and geologic strata.
