herebedragons writes:
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It would be nice to have some simple rebuttals to arguments like hydro-logic sorting.
Answer: Potato chips in a bag.
When they look at you quizzically, point out that in a bag of potato chips, all the biggest chips are on the top and all the crumbs are on the bottom. That's what we should see if there were hyrdological sorting: The little bits fall through the gaps that the big bits leave as they clump together and settle at the bottom. If the fossil record were hydrologically sorted, all the whale fossils should be on top.
But they're not.
So they weren't.
You might consider pulling out your Lewis Carroll for that last:
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.
Rrhain
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