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Originally posted by Chara:
Would that not have speeded up the "breaking down" process? Plus from the little reading I've done on this subject wouldn't a lot of carcasses (assuming that the flood took place the way that the bible says it does) have been buried in layers of rock, sand, etc.
The decay process is almost entirely biological. The important factor is the access that organisms have to the body. The vanguard decomposers are already living inside you. There are fly maggots, vultures, etc. and what have you. But in the case of the biblical flood, all of these things are dead. The dead are then rapidly buried under feet to miles of sediment, all of it sterile because it wasn't on the ark. No decomposition could have occured until Noah let the animals off the ark. There was nothing alive outside to do the decomposition. The burial effectively seals the deeply buried bodies from any organisms on the ark that may get of and decompose them. But there must certainly be shallow graves that the bacteria can get to and animals on the surface as well. The smell must have been awful after a few weeks.
While thinking about this, I realized that we should expect to find millions of salt saturated mummies buried in the ground. Not just bone.
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