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Author Topic:   Do creationists try to find and study fossils?
foreveryoung
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Message 98 of 182 (698260)
05-04-2013 10:44 PM
Reply to: Message 92 by Faith
05-04-2013 9:52 PM


Yes, the past left evidence, unique evidence such as the bazillions of fossils in the miles deep stack of sediments that has not occurred on such a scale since and never will. It is open to interpretation in a way evidence formed in the present is not because in the present you have similar events for comparison. That is not the case with the prehistoric past. The evidence remains open to interpretation. The same evidence you take to prove evolution I take to prove the Flood and I think the interpretation of a stack of neatly horizontal sediments as eras in time is stupid in the extreme.
Why is it that those deep stacks of sediments always have the oldest dated rocks on the bottom and the youngest dated rocks on top? How did the flood manage to do that? Why is it that the least complex fossils are always found on the bottoms layers of sediment and the most complex fossils are always found on the top? How did the flood manage to do that? Lets just take fish for example. Why are there no modern fish found in the bottom layers? Why are the fish found in the top layers never found in the bottom layers? This is even true for fish of approximately the same weight. Why and how would a flood sort fish out in this manner?

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Message 100 of 182 (698263)
05-04-2013 11:18 PM
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05-04-2013 10:50 PM


Why is it that most of the fossils found in the thick sedimentary layers you speak of don't exist today? If they all came off the ark 4000 years ago, you would think at least some of them would still exist.

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Message 141 of 182 (698330)
05-05-2013 2:12 PM
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05-05-2013 1:14 AM


The answer to your question is that most of those fossils that don't exist are nevertheless within the same Species or Kind of those that do exist as their close cousins. Microevolution has occurred since the Flood acting on the small portion of the pre-Flood genetic picture that survived the Flood. The fossils show us the enormous variety that existed before the Flood.
Where are the descendants or cousins of T-rex? Where is the microevolution that descended from her?

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foreveryoung
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Message 148 of 182 (698355)
05-05-2013 10:50 PM
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05-05-2013 10:02 PM


Re: a great example of how creationists do not study fossils.
The sedimentary layers are all originally horizontal, remarkably flat-topped, remarkably without the sort of erosion one finds on surface land,
Ever heard of the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon? That is a huge erosional surface. There was over a billion years of erosion and non deposition that occurred over that surface.

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foreveryoung
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Message 164 of 182 (698402)
05-06-2013 5:46 PM
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05-05-2013 11:22 PM


Re: a great example of how creationists do not study fossils.
You said all the sedimentary layers are perfectly flat and show no signs of erosion like the current land surface does. I suppose that was off topic for you to mention it? Since you mentioned it, I am responding to it. There are surfaces that show erosion like the current land surface does. I just showed it to you. Now, it is up to you to tell me why the Great Unconformity is not an erosion surface like that of today.

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