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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
We propose that
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
is responsible for the fossil ordering.
Anatomically similar animals tend to have similar 1/2/3 prpoerties and hence fossil order is approximately correlatable with anatomical similarity or supposed homology.
So we should have sorting by anatomical similarity? All deer-like creatures ought to be in the same strata. All bird-like creatures ought to be in the same strata. All reptile-like creatures ought to be in the same strata.
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In detail this would require a huge set of simualtions that would require knowledge of:
A. the pre-flood biogeography
B. every animal's hydrodynamic sorting propoerties
C. every animal's mobility and escape behaviour
D. the pre-flood topography/continental configuraiton
E. a precise model of the how/timing of the flood stages
As everyone knows this is all extremely difficult. So the only hope of ever doing anything like this might be to pick a subset of organisms and try it out.
In other words you have an impossibly complex theory-- or should I say irreducibly complex? And it is therefore invalid by virtue of being untestable. What's that you say? A,D, and E are all unknowable. There is no data.
What you need is a theory to describe the sorting behavior which does not depend upon unknowns. Something like the sorting of oil and vinegar in a jar of water. Jar size doesn't matter. Jar shape doesn't matter. The initial conditions don't matter. The method of stirring the mixture doesn't matter.
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The evoltuionary model does not suffer from this difficulty of possibility of reconstruction becasue each layer is simply assumed to be a surface layer habitated for thousands of years. Each animal lived and died in its layer. Our model has no such simple assumption possible.
To assume that the upper layers of dirt are older than the lower layers does not seem like much of a stretch to me.
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