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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Punisher:
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We can infer from the fossil record that some animals, and types
of animals existed at times when others did not.

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That last statement is sufficient to invalidate a literal
interpretation of the creation in genesis.

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I'm afriad I don't follow the quote above.My interpretation is this: In the ordinary course of events, animals usually do not fossilze when they die. Usually there is an unusual event like a volcanic eruption or flood.Brachinus:
What is the basis for that assumption? And are you suggesting that these cataclysms occurred in such a way as to separate out more primitive forms from more modern ones?Fossilization is more likely to occur in some sort of cataclysm than in normal circumstances. So if we find widespread fossilization it would be reasonable to infer widespread cataclysm.Brachinus:
Or cataclysms, plural.And, if we find fossil graveyards with millions of animals jammed together, it would be reasonable to infer cataclysm of titanic proportions.Brachinus:
It would also be reasonable to expect to find representatives of all the creatures from that time and place to be caught up in it. That's not what the fossil record shows.I believe the evidence to be 'supportive' of a global flood. The fossil evidence doesn't prove there was a global flood, but it is consistent with that idea.Brachinus:
So where are the lobsters in Cambrian strata? Where are the trilobites in Pleistocene strata?

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Originally posted by Punisher:
that is what I said in my original hypothetical situation; "in different strata"

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original: Suppose you were on a dig 2000 years from now, and you discovered, in different strata, a Shetland pony, a quarterhorse, a thorough-bred, and a Clydesdale.

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If they were found in different strata, that would imply some sort of evolutionary link over eons of time. And if we know that they didn't evolve over eons of time, their presence in different strata would completely undermine the basis of estimating evolutionary relationships through stratigraphy.But since they didn't evolve over eons of time, it's a safe bet that we won't be finding them in different strata.