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Author Topic:   fossils and catastrophism.. Funk has a question
wehappyfew
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Message 7 of 10 (31598)
02-06-2003 10:24 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by funkmasterfreaky
02-06-2003 9:36 PM


Good questions, funky, but I'm concerned that you are not absorbing the answers very well...
funky writes:
Your saying there are a very few fossils because you are assuming your right that the earth is millions of years old.
Actually, there are quite a large number of fossils in the earth. There are almost a trillion synapsid fossils in the Karoo Formation in South Africa, for example. A synapsid is a medium sized vertebrate with features of both mammals and reptiles. They range in size from fox to hippo size. A trillion of any large animal is far more than the Earth can support - and that's just one obscure group of animals.
If you add up all the fossils found in the geological column... restore all the coal seams into forests... revive all the coral reefs, fish, diatoms, clams, dinosaurs and trilobites... you would have a layer of living biomass about 2 miles thick over the entire Earth.

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