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Author Topic:   What happened to all the dead rotting carcasses?
lpetrich
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Message 30 of 46 (35774)
03-30-2003 1:01 AM


Jesuslover153:
Second I believe that there were two biblical events that would explain fossils.. one the Great Flood two the whole Babylon experience, I believe that Pangaea existed up till this time and it is here that it is broken apart and our current continental situation was brought forth.. this process would not have left as many fossils but certainly it could have...
Galloping continents.
However, for some strange reason, the continents have slowed their drifting down to exactly the rate that one deduces with the help of radioisotope dating of rocks. Currently, the rate is typically around ~3 cm/yr, as can be deduced from earthquake effects, VLBI, and GPS measurements. Over 200 million years, this adds up to ~6000 km, which is about the distance from their Pangaea positions.
Furthermore, there is an abundance of evidence for pre-Pangaea continental drift. There are some old mountain ranges, like the Appalachians and the Urals, which are results of the formation of Pangaea from earlier continents. And there are several orogens, mountain-range roots, that date back much further, some to over 2 billion years.
So continents have been playing "bumper cars" for the last 2 billion years.
As we know it does not take a huge amount of years to cause fossils, just the right circumstance
Why drag in such irrelevancies?
Fossils are NOT dated by estimates of how long they take to form.

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lpetrich
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Message 32 of 46 (35872)
03-30-2003 11:01 PM


Except that Pangaea had existed around 200 million years ago, and an earlier supercontinent, Rodinia, existed about 1 billion - 800 million years ago. There is a possible even older one that would have existed around 1.5 billion years ago.
And humanity was not around back then.
Our ancestors were therapsid mammal-like reptiles when Pangaea existed, and protozoans when the earlier supercontinents existed.

  
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