Here are my thoughts on fossils and creation:

Fossils simply show that there have been creatures who died and were buried suddenly, before they could decompose normally. In fact, some were buried in the midst of childbirth - I've seen pictures of a half born creature fossilized with it's mother. To me, the fossil record is one of the best evidences of a global flood - millions of creatures killed and buried in an enormous catastophe.

The fossil record also does not show ANY transitional creatures. Sure, "missing links" are found from time to time, but they have all been proven false after further research. That part generally doesn't make the news. The missing links are still missing. So, once again, the existance of fossils does not support evolution.

The only debatable point is the age of the fossils. Radio-carbon dating gives figures of millions and billions of years for many fossils. However, we have no way to determine whether these numbers are accurate. We assume that carbon decays at the same rate over time, but we don't KNOW it for sure. We are incapable of measuring the behaviour of carbon isotopes over millions of years. So there's one question about the accuracy of radio-carbon dating.

Also, when Mt. St. Helens erupted, fossils were created. There is a fossilized miners' helmet which has been discovered. It carbon dated at millions of years old. It was, in fact, a few decades old.

I also understand that it is often assumed that a fossil is a certain number of years old, based on the kind of rock it is found in. And we assume that the rock is a certain number of years old based on the kind of fossils that are in it, and where they fit in the evolutionary time frame. A bit of circular reasoning.

Finally, the fossil record actually supports the idea of dinosaurs and fully-formed humans co-existing. There is a fossilized footprint of a human, within a footprint of a dinosaur. There are also cave drawings of dinosaurs, and I believe that the legends of dragons and creatures like that, that are common in many places of the world are based human contact with dinosaurs long ago.

I have no problem believing that God created dinosaurs right along side of men. They were likely on the ark, with everything else. (The average dinosaur was about the size of a sheep, by the way, and Noah would certainly not have taken mature adults of the huge ones - young ones would have been smaller.) And, they may well have mostly died out in the climate changes that followed the flood, or some other circumstance. Species are being lost daily on the earth - becoming extinct for one reason or another. No reason to doubt that the same thing didn't happen to the dinosaurs.