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Dr Adequate
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Message 807 of 1352 (808180)
05-08-2017 9:51 PM
Reply to: Message 762 by CRR
05-08-2017 3:00 AM


Re: Fossilised forests
The linked article discusses whether the petrified forest at Yellowstone was repeatedly buried by volcanic ash.
I don't see where he denies that the sediment is volcanic.

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Message 900 of 1352 (809168)
05-16-2017 3:35 PM
Reply to: Message 863 by CRR
05-11-2017 7:06 AM


Re: Six "Flood" Arguments Creationists Can't Answer
Fossils have turned up in the wrong place many times and this continues today. This leads to the range of fossils often being extended. Vertebrates have been confirmed in the early Cambrian. Pollen fossils have been found in Precambrian strata although it was claimed that flowering plants don't occur in the fossil record until early in the Cretaceous era. Grass was not supposed to have evolved until millions of years after the end of the dinosaurs but traces of grass have been found in fossilized dinosaur coprolites (dung). Ducks, squirrels, platypus, beaver-like and badger-like creatures have all been found in ‘dinosaur-era’ rock layers along with bees, cockroaches, frogs and pine trees. Picture T. Rex stomping along with a duck flying overhead. Perhaps that Precambrian rabbit will soon appear.
You're not providing any citations, I notice. I also notice that you have no idea what would constitute the "wrong" place for a fossil.
Finally, I note that none of this answers the point that you cannot explain the order in the fossil record.
Similarly there are many living fossils, animals and plants that were thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago. Coelacanth, Wollemi Pine, a rodent called Laonastes aenigmamus , and a sponge called Nucha vancouverensis are examples.
What of it? If this was a point against evolution, which it isn't, it still wouldn't answer the point that you cannot explain the order in the fossil record.
There are several mechanisms that separately and together could provide a Creationist explanation for the sequence in the fossil record.
No they couldn't. Separately and together, these excuses do not provide an explanation. This has been tried and failed.
See here.
EvC Forum: The Great Creationist Fossil Failure
Why don't we find mammals underneath Trilobite bearing layers? Because Trilobites lived on the bottom of the ocean and very few mammals lived underneath them.
But we do find marine organisms above terrestrial organisms. Just not trilobites above mammals.
We can also ask how well the fossil record supports the [neo-]Darwinian evolutionary model. Darwin said that according to his theory there should be many finely graded intermediate types but admitted that these did not appear in the fossil record. Darwin hoped that future discoveries would fill in the gaps. Over 100 years later Gould admitted the lack of transitional forms was the trade secret of paleontology, and he and Eldridge came up with Punctuated Equilibrium to explain this. This theory has not been a success. Transitional fossils are still missing.
But this is stupid shit that creationists have made up because their drivel can only be supported by telling dumb lies. And if it wasn't a bunch of dumb dirty lies, which it is, it still wouldn't answer the point that you cannot explain the order in the fossil record.

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