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Flood sorting

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compmage
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08-27-2002 2:46 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by John
08-26-2002 11:59 PM

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Lets have it. How does the flood sort dead things into the observed geologic strata?
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Magic
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08-28-2002 3:21 AM 		Reply to: Message 5 by Tranquility Base
08-28-2002 12:51 AM

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We propose that
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1. biogeography - the localisation of species
2. hydrodynamic sorting - the flow and sink properties of organisms
3. relative mobility - escape speed, direction, desire to escape etc
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is responsible for the fossil ordering.
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So flowering plants ran faster than all other plants and that is why they are found near the top?
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08-28-2002 10:22 AM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Tranquility Base
08-28-2002 3:26 AM

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^ Compmage, at what stage does your filtering work - in your retina, the optic nerve, visual processing or somewhere else in your brain?
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I listed three mechanisms that are difficult to deconvolute.
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Funny...maybe you could answer the implied question?
Why do we only find flowering plants near the top of the geological column?
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08-30-2002 3:12 AM 		Reply to: Message 31 by Tranquility Base
08-29-2002 8:42 PM

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Peter
The flood occurred in surges based on geo-data (if there was a flood)...
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Come again?! This is like saying "your answer is correct (if you gave an answer)...
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