What does the Great Barrier Reef tell us about both Evolution and the Age of things?

jar, where the sea level fell and the reef died followed by rising sea levels and new reef building. What lessons can be learned from the Great Barrier reef?If what you say is true that the sea level fell, then this supports the biblical deluge, psalm kjv 104:8 that God prepared a place for the Waters, so its interestingly in agreement with God's Word that the Ocean's settled, all the sediments of the flood eruption, probably explains why your just off on the age of the Great Barrier Reef by couple million years, I mean the rocks sediments would of dated old even before they erupted out from the earth, not to mention all the capillary reverse osmosis of solute concentrations within the micro-pore rock lattice structures seeking to equalize solute concentrations constantly over the last 4,350 years, would likely be affecting any believed accurcies of any dating method, you would have to assume no leaching of elemental solutes have been occurring in the micro-pores via capillary osmosis, not just normal leaching of water solutes within the macro-pores, etc...P.S. Its just interesting that water is a solvent, doesn't seem to matter much from my point of view if its happening via the capillary driven solute pump driven by differences in solute concentrations within immeasurable numbers of micro-pores, or the free flowing macro-pore waters, etc... If the biblical flood occurred, then a whole lot of leaching was occurring, and your evidence suggests it did indeed happened(them glaciers formed, etc...), cause it agrees with the bible that oceans settled, and the waters flowed there, cause it was the place prepared for the waters, so they would not turn again and recover the earth (kjv psalm 104:9), etc...

crashfrog, I'd think the tides are continually bringing in sediments, and that the coral reefs act as a catch pan, as the tides sweep the sediments through the coral reefs, tidal currents would cause the sediments to continually to settle around the coral's, helping the reef growth rates upward (mineral rich sediments), the silts in the ocean shouldn't affect the coral's growth cause they would settle quite quickly (due to the sea salts) almost immediately after the daily tidal deposition of sediments within the reefs, so shouldn't be affecting the clarity of the water, affecting sunlight reaching the corals, silt contributions should just help the reef's growth, in the mineral rich sediments contributions, the tidal currents daily contributions continually accelerating the rate of the coral reefs growth upward, etc...

crashfrog, It would seem that the coral's primary food sources (plankton) would benefit by the mineral rich sediments depositions and would be affected by the depth & clarity and temperature of seawater, for their photosynthesis growth. In essense as long as the sediments settle around the corals, it would support the plankton, which is the coral's primary food source, etc...

crashfrog, I find it interesting that most of those posting apparently doesn't feel nutrients are needed for corals, perhaps true but the food source, zooplankton growth is benefited, and while sunlight might not be needed for corals the food source needs sunlight, so depth affects their growth, that sunlight is needed for zooplanktons to grow, (this is the food source for the planktons for your corals to feed on, etc...)I always thought that iron salts, aluminum salts and other factors in sea water salts is why there is no varves in the oceans sediments, and responsible for the silt coagulating so you don't have the silt layers, with this problem of silt affecting corals, unless of course massive clear cuttings, causing excess soil erosion, or excess herbicides in the runoff carrying over into the nutrient washed by the tides into the coral reefs, which could kill those fragile corals, the zooplanktons or both, etc...P.S. I have no problem that the massive killoff of your Great Barrier Reef that sank 4,350 years ago, could of been killed off by the massive amounts of silts in the biblical flood waters, and only find it interesting that scientists admit the seas lowered, supports the hydro-plate theory, psalms 104:8, the oceans settling, the waters flowing to the settled oceans levels, etc...Zooplankton http://www.chesapeakebay.net/info/plankton.cfmZooplankton are planktonic animals that range in size from microscopic rotifers to macroscopic jellyfish. Their distribution within the Chesapeake Bay is governed by salinity, temperature and food availability. The smallest zooplankton can be characterized as recyclers of water-column nutrients and often "are closely tied to measures of (nutrient enrichment"). Larger zooplankton are important food for forage fish species and larval stages of all fish. They also link the primary producers (phytoplankton) with larger or higher trophic-level organisms. The zooplankton community is composed of both primary consumers, which eat phytoplankton, and secondary consumers, which feed on other zooplankton.

crashfrog, I didn't think you ignorant of the zooplanktons need for nutrients, but I see the Great Coral Reef had 5,000 years to of grown before the biblical deluge, if one day is as a thousand years, meaning 9,350 years have transpired since the coral reef started growing if one takes 2 peter 3:8 literally, and are not ignorant of 2 peter 3:5-6, etc...Ned, You might benefit from a book on ecology, were all in this together, kill the zooplankton you kill the food source, etc...