Thanks for providing the reference, 'pete from seven stars link'. But so what? There must have been millions of floods/inundations in the history of the Earth! Besides the Burgess Shale creatures were marine ones - and so were underwater. Whatever buried them was the 'reverse' of a flood! We have the Burgess Shale fossils as a result of blind chance (which I believe really drives the Universe - not 'God'). They represent a rare event which has added to our knowledge but revealed gaps in that knowledge (c'est la vie!).

What religious fundamentalists fail to understand is that Science is not a dogma like Religion (as interpreted by fundamentalists). An individual scientist, at some particular point in time, may defend his/her position vigorously but that point of view may subsequently be overthrown by further evidence. What fundamentalists do is to concentrate on the gaps and to ignore the Big Picture. Nevertheless, to point at a gap and shout: "Ah, ha! That gap 'proves' that the Bible is right!" is utterly ludicrous and has no intellectual credibility whatsoever!