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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2719 days)  Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
Hi, Granny Magda.
Granny Magda writes: What kind of flood sorts all the grasses into the top layers, whilst picking out plants like cooksonia and depositing them on the lower layers? I never thought of using grass to make this point before. That's probably actually the most powerful observation you could have thought of to make this point! Well done! -----
Granny Magda writes: We never find fossil grasses in the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian... If a flood were responsible for the "fossil record", we would expect to see grasses fairly evenly distributed. We don't. Why is "fossil record" the term in quotes here? "Oh, that so-called 'fossil record...'!"  Anyway, I think you've neglected the possibility that Cambrian grasses might have been able to run faster than therapsids, sphenacodonts and temnospondyls, thus allowing them to stay ahead of the floods Or, how about the possibility that before the Flood, due to the vapor canopy and all that, there were more animals around to eat the grass, and they simply consumed all the grass before it fossilized? I bet you didn't think of that, did you?  Merry Christmas, Granny! -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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