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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
There's little evidence to demonstrate that, in some beds at the very least, one might not even get every vertebrate creature fossilised in a catastrophic situation. Why not (in some beds at least)? What are these 'special conditions' other than burial? Teach me.
Perhaps I'm overstating the requirements for fossilisation ...
maybe all it needs is rapid burrial.
It's a slightly different train of thought but ...
In that case it is even less likely that the Flood is responsible
for the majority of the fossil record.
IF the majority of the fossil record were laid down by the
flood, surely we would expect to see MANY fossil samples of
each animal and plant in existence at the time of the flood.
If ALL that is required is rapid burrial, and there was a lot of
that during the flood year, then we should see enormous numbers
of each species as fossils.
We don't. We find many fossil samples of some creatures,
and very few of others.
Those that we find many samples of, exist (with some variation)
through several different geological time periods, while those
with few samples exist in few geological time periods (how ever long they really were).
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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
In the field, in many beds we can see ripple marks in every every square foot of every layer! You think we wouldn't be able to find evidence a fish was rapidly buried there if it was? I think you're just finding it hard to
If there are ripple marks in different layers, did the waters
recede long enough for the sediment to solidify into rock, then
come back again ? All in a one year period ?
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