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Author Topic:   Mass extinction and the Flood
Bonobojones
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Message 1 of 5 (55643)
09-15-2003 10:19 PM


I would assume something as Earth changing as the Great Deluge would also be associated with a mass extinction. I'm just wondering which one?
late Cambrian
Late Ordovician
Late Devonian
End of the Permian (the Big One)
Late Triassic
or the K-T
Or did the Flood leave no evidence of a massive die-off?
Just a dumb question from a lowly boatbuilder.
If this has been done before, my apologies.
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Message 2 of 5 (55658)
09-15-2003 11:13 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Bonobojones
09-15-2003 10:19 PM


Apparently the entire geologic record up to about the Tertiary is supposed to be the result ot the Flood. Or at least that's the one I heard.

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Bonobojones
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Message 3 of 5 (56003)
09-17-2003 9:53 AM


Thanks. Sometimes I get confused by the differing timelines given. The weirdest one seems to be Barry Setterfield's. I think he's trying to say that everything from the Cambrian on is post flood, but he needs to change lightspeed and decay rates radically to do it.

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roxrkool
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Message 4 of 5 (56036)
09-17-2003 11:21 AM
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09-17-2003 9:53 AM


Whoa! Haven't heard that one yet. Besides having to change speed and decay rates, he'd have to change the global climate in order to erode and deposit so much sediment.
Is the fossil record of the Cambrian *Explosion* supposed to represent the massive flood die off? Maybe he doesn't know about all the others, like the much larger Permian event that you pointed out.
I believe Setterfield is also the one who interprets all(?) folded strata as soft sediment deformation.

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Bonobojones
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Message 5 of 5 (56040)
09-17-2003 11:49 AM


J. Meert discusses and refutes the Setterfield view here
Barry Setterfield
Now, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I did take some geology and Anthro courses while at the U. of Maine. Where this guy got his education, I don't know.
http://www.setterfield.org/
I don't know if you followed it, but his wife, Helen, moderated the Baptist Board's Evo/Creo discussions. She posted a lot of his ideas and got spanked repeatedly. The board is read only since she left in a huff.
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