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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Are you now suggesting that the strata containing tracks were the original pre-flood surface rather than being laid down in the receding stages of the flood ?
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I agree that is one strange bug; and putting "Burgess Shale creatures" into Google Image turns up a bunch more. But then just putting "strange bugs" into Google image turns up quite a collection of bugs living today, including the ones Dr. A posted on a while back, that may very possibly rival the fossil bugs. (A few I suspect of being human inventions but I don't know) So I'm not so sure the fossil record has anything more outlandish than today's bug world.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
No. I'm trying just to picture the very forefront of the rising Flood, assuming it's building the strata with each new wave. But if the strata were precipitated out after the Flood was at its full height that would be a completely different scenario I'm also considering.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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That's why taxonomic classifications are important. They are more objective and rely on more detailed observation than a subjective impression of "strangeness"
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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Footprints are an obvious problem for you. You need dry (relatively speaking) land that will later be deeply covered and you need living animals. Those obviously point to very early stages of the flood, and ideally the original landscape. But that ends up creating other problems for you - it becomes very difficult to explain anything lower down in terms of the flood.
The mainstream scientific view has no such problem.
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edge Member (Idle past 1706 days) Posts: 4696 From: Colorado, USA Joined:
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I agree that is one strange bug; and putting "Burgess Shale creatures" into Google Image turns up a bunch more. But then just putting "strange bugs" into Google image turns up quite a collection of bugs living today, including the ones Dr. A posted on a while back, that may very possibly rival the fossil bugs. (A few I suspect of being human inventions but I don't know) So I'm not so sure the fossil record has anything more outlandish than today's bug world.
The problems is that those creatures are not 'bugs' as we know them. These are marine creatures and are not insects.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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The problem is slightly different.
If we look at the geology what we find is unordered layers of similar materials. We find sedimentary layers and igneous layers and organic layers and marine layers and aeolian layers all stacked vertically with different ordering depending on the location examined. But when we look at the fossil evidence we find an entirely different pattern. Biological samples are ordered and in a non-repeating pattern whether we are discussing animals or plants. What we see is a clear evolution of lifeforms that is similar across the whole record. We never find latter forms mixed with earlier forms. The ordering of the biological samples, the record of landscapes, is laid out like a storyboard, like a series of time lapse pictures. The oldest samples show no critters with skeletons. Next we find exoskeletons, then backbones. The first plants are all asexual, then we find sexual reproduction by spores then seeds then pollen. The ordering in biological samples always is evolutionary, changing over time; the types of materials seen in the geological samples are pretty constant over all time. Sedimentary rocks are made the same way they always were. Shale, limestone, lava, ash... the processes simply repeat. The fossils are absolute evidence of a succession of landscapes over vast periods of time where the geological processes continued and repeated but the biological processes themselves changed producing new and unique specimens.My Sister's Website: Rose Hill Studios
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Beautifully told standard propaganda. Not a hint that it's physically impossible for there ever to have been the landscapes invented out of the rocks in which the so-nicely-ordered former life forms supposedly lived. It's all quite plausible in a Just-So sort of way if you don't think about that extreme implausibility of turning a landscape into a slab of rock. All you've got is rocks, nothing but rocks, and you make up whole worlds to have existed within those rocks. The absurdity is staggering, but it's more staggering how it is rationalized away.
So let the denials begin. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : punctuation
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foreveryoung Member (Idle past 582 days) Posts: 921 Joined: |
How do you think rocks come to be?
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Faith writes: Beautifully told standard propaganda. Not a hint that it's physically impossible for there ever to have been the landscapes invented out of the rocks in which the so-nicely-ordered former life forms supposedly lived. It's all quite plausible in a Just-So sort of way if you don't think about that extreme implausibility of turning a landscape into a slab of rock. All you've got is rocks, nothing but rocks, and you make up whole worlds to have existed within those rocks. The absurdity is staggering, but it's more staggering how it is rationalized away. So let the denials begin. Once again Faith, reality show you are wrong. What we have is not just rocks but rather rocks that contain the absolute proof of those other landscapes. Where the leaf fell a tree grew. Where the critter died the critter lived. It is that ordering of Biological samples that you must explain. Edited by jar, : hit wrong keyMy Sister's Website: Rose Hill Studios
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I think you're forgetting the compaction part of the lithification process. The flat layer of rock that you see today wasn't so flat and thin when it was on the surface in the past. It's been smashed down by all the new surfaces on top of it. All the normal surface conditions were there when it was on top, it just later got covered in more layers of stuff that compacted it down. No amount of compaction would change "all the normal surface conditions" of any surface on the earth now or ever into straight flat rock. Hills, valleys, riverbeds, lake basins, deep tree roots, no. Same answer to your Message 266 where you say compression would have made the strata appear flatter. Not unless the compressing weight was flat itself, and that would be true of the strata themselves whose weight would certainly have enormously compacted lower layers. But not if the sediment being compressed had any of the lumpiness of a normal surface of the earth.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Faith writes: No amount of compaction would change "all the normal surface conditions" of any surface on the earth now or ever into straight flat rock. Hills, valleys, riverbeds, lake basins, deep tree roots, no. Same answer to your Message 266 where you say compression would have made the strata appear flatter. Not unless the compressing weight was flat itself, and that would be true of the strata themselves whose weight would certainly have enormously compacted lower layers. But not if the sediment being compressed had any of the lumpiness of a normal surface of the earth It's a good thing no one but Creationists make such silly claims then isn't it Faith. And once again reality shows you are wrong. One great piece of evidence totally refuting your silly depiction is the Appalachians.My Sister's Website: Rose Hill Studios
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Good start on the Denial Brigade. Changing the topic to put the creationist in the hot seat is often an effective tactic too.
What we have is not just rocks but rather rocks that contain the absolute proof of those other landscapes. Where the leaf fell a tree grew. Where the critter died the critter lived. Yes, what we have is not just a stack of drawers as it were, but drawers with socks in them or knives and forks or loose change and rubber bands, which is absolute proof that where the drawers are now there used to be a whole level of the building occupied with socks or cutlery or loose change and rubber bands. Y'all look at the layers, the slabs of rocks in say the walls of the Grand Canyon, which appear as a stack of layers to a great depth. You dig in one or another of them and discover fossilized marine life, or a leaf from a tree of a certain type and you imagine those things are indicative of the surface of the earth in the time period associated with that rock, and you mentally construct that surface or landscape out of the once-living things peculiar to that rock. At least a tell in which a series of settlements have been stacked one on top of another contains the actual remains of those settlements, but these rocks are rocks, with the most minuscule "clues" to your imaginary former landscape contained in them. Sorta like reading tea leaves at the bottom of a teacup. I would think if you stood back again and once again saw the wall of rock slabs from a distance you'd have to consider it just as absurd as I do that any given rock in that neat stack was EVER part of such a landscape. But it's become too ingrained in Geology for that disillusionment ever to happen. And it's more fun to make creationists jump and dance anyway. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Faith writes: Yes, what we have is not just a tier of drawers as it were, but drawers with socks in them or knives and forks or loose change and rubber bands, which is absolute proof that where the drawers are now there used to be a whole level of the building occupied with socks or cutlery or loose change and rubber bands. Fortunately no one but a Creationist or a four year old would say such a silly thing.
Faith writes: Y'all look at the layers, the slabs of rocks in say the walls of the Grand Canyon, which appear as a tier of layers to a great depth. You dig in one or another of them and discover fossilized marine life, or a leaf from a tree of a certain type and you imagine those things are indicative of the surface of the earth in the time period associated with that rock, and you mentally construct that surface or landscape out of the living things peculiar to that rock. You or some Creationist might think something that sill but not the rest of humanity. What people have done is look at what is actually found and honestly keep track of what is found. What is found is as I have pointed out to you before, an orderly progression and evolution of biological samples beginning at the earliest samples and changing over time to what is seen today. The question is how can such an orderly evolution of biological samples be explained? Conventional theory has an explanation and that is evolution over long periods of time. Interestingly the conventional theory also explains the unordered repetitive geological samples found. Unfortunately no Creationist or Biblical Flood supporter has ever been able to present any other theory which explains what actually exists.
Faith writes: I would think if you stood back again and once again saw the wall of rock slabs from a distance you'd have to consider it just as absurd as I do that such neatly stacked rocks were EVER part of such a landscape. You might think so but the rest of humanity actually steps back and looks and also gets closer and looks and realizes that what you claim exists is just ignorance and denial. Edited by jar, : appalin spallinMy Sister's Website: Rose Hill Studios
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Righto. Good one. Belittle the creationist, that will work.
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