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Message 1 of 343 (425182)
10-01-2007 2:17 AM


Seashell on mountain tops - How do Young Earth Creationist explain them?
From what I have seen they often make the claim that the Sea Shell fossils found on mountaintops are *obvious* support for a flood but never offer to explain why. I suppose it is the thought the seashells live in aquatic environments and a global flood that covered the mountains somehow explains their existence.
But just how does a single deluge transport immobile animals and marine plants up the higher elevations and even sometimes deposited marine fossils in several different horizons in a single column? Keeping in mind that that some form of violent hydrological transport would contradict other creationists claim that animals are sorted by their ability to escape.
Also most of the strata with seashell fossils are found typically embedded in limestone together with fossilized marine plants, fish teeth, animal burrows which provide strong irrefutable evidence that the strata was at one time a marine environment and not just some debris that was somehow washed in by a catastrophic event.
Leonardo da Vinci during the 15th century and Saint Sterno of the 17th Century had and the foresight and wisdom to recognize that the biblical flood cannot account for existence of the fossil remains of slow-moving mollusks and marine plants embedded in the rocks of mountains. But yet modern day Young Earth Creationist still believe that a flood explains this common phenomena so just what is the YEC detailed explanation.

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Message 2 of 343 (425209)
10-01-2007 9:49 AM


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Message 3 of 343 (425227)
10-01-2007 12:37 PM
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10-01-2007 2:17 AM


We find not only clam shells, but delicate structures like crinoids, things that could not possible have survived the violence necessary to transport them to the mountain tops.

In many respects, the Bible was the world's first Wikipedia article. -- Doug Brown (quoted by Carlin Romano in The Chronicle Review)

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Message 4 of 343 (425236)
10-01-2007 12:58 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by iceage
10-01-2007 2:17 AM


Back in the days when I was still a creationist, I offered the flood model as the explanation for fossils found on mountain tops in my geology class. My teacher went up to the board and drew out something like this.
Then she told me that water don't do this.
Obviously, I didn't get it at the time. Took me about a decade to finally realize what she was trying to tell me.
The fossils are not only found on mountain tops, but also are found on elevations that vary some thousands of feet. A world wide flood responsible for the deposition of these fossils would have distributed them at aproximately the same elevations throughout the world. In fact, if such is the case it would probably be the strongest evidence for a world wide flood.

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Message 5 of 343 (425423)
10-02-2007 9:27 AM
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10-01-2007 2:17 AM


... and Saint Sterno of the 17th Century ...
Just to be pedantic, he's been beatified but not canonized, so that would be "the Blessed Nicholas Steno".
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Here's Da Vinci on fossil shells.

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Message 6 of 343 (425424)
10-02-2007 9:28 AM
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10-01-2007 2:17 AM


DP.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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Message 7 of 343 (425581)
10-02-2007 8:13 PM
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10-01-2007 12:58 PM


LOL. No wonder you didn't get it, Taz.
As a youth, your probably understood that deposits in a body of water settle on the bottom.
I guess now you've become convinced they settle at some sort of uniform depth in relation to the "flat" surface of the water.
Just a reminder.

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Message 8 of 343 (425583)
10-02-2007 8:23 PM
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10-02-2007 8:13 PM


CTD writes:
As a youth, your probably understood that deposits in a body of water settle on the bottom.
I guess now you've become convinced they settle at some sort of uniform depth in relation to the "flat" surface of the water.
Um, I think you misunderstand the demonstration of that drawing.

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Message 9 of 343 (425605)
10-03-2007 4:37 AM
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10-02-2007 8:13 PM


Guessing
Your guesses at what other people think have been so ludicrously stupid and wrong lately that perhaps you should stop guessing what people think and start asking them instead.

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Message 10 of 343 (425607)
10-03-2007 5:15 AM
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10-03-2007 4:37 AM


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Message 11 of 343 (425612)
10-03-2007 6:41 AM
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10-02-2007 8:23 PM


The message 4 diagram
Um, I think you misunderstand the demonstration of that drawing.
I'm not really understanding it either, and I have a geology degree.
Back in message 4 you say:
A world wide flood responsible for the deposition of these fossils would have distributed them at aproximately the same elevations throughout the world.
Are you saying the would be at the same elevations because the same type critters would be at the same depth? You know, shallow water life forms vs. deep water life forms.
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Message 12 of 343 (425636)
10-03-2007 9:38 AM
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10-03-2007 6:41 AM


Re: The message 4 diagram
Totally a guess on my part, but the way I read it, he is saying the fossil evidence, if read in the context of a young earth, would require water to conform to the level of the rocks, creating an even depth of water worldwide, since shells and other sea life type fossils are more evenly spread out and not distinguished a elevations. Sorry for the run-on sentence.
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Message 13 of 343 (425639)
10-03-2007 10:04 AM
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Re: The message 4 diagram
I read it as saying:
If you say the water rose and deposited shells as we see them then the water would have had to reach many different heights in the flood year and stay there. That means the world wide water level would have to vary very ( ) widely across the globe.

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Message 14 of 343 (425673)
10-03-2007 5:29 PM


Okay, let's spell it out.
Water flows downwards.
Creationst "flood geology" is crap because it ignores this simple fact.

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Message 15 of 343 (425685)
10-03-2007 6:51 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by Dr Adequate
10-03-2007 5:29 PM


hi, first post
dr. adequate says:
"Water flows downwards.
Creationst "flood geology" is crap because it ignores this simple fact."
I have been reading this thread as flood geology is fascinating for me, and it seems that what hasn't been brought up is that the flood doctrine usually states that mountains were formed after the flood. Wouldn't this account for the seashells and wouldn't the water analogy be some form of logical fallacy as it doesn't really pertain to diluvial geology?
Thanks.

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