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Thread #155384   Message #3664401
Posted By: Stu
29-Sep-14 - 05:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Subject: RE: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
"Rather, I view the supposed geological column as roughly equating to order of burial in the noahic deluge disaster."

If there was evidence for such an event, then I would accept that fully. However, there is no evidence the sedimentary strata we see making up large parts of the surface of the earth was laid down in a single event. Not a jot.

We can recognise flood events in the geological record; they form distinctive lithofacies.

Questions:

How to you account for the zoning of fossils (i.e. why are they not mixed up)?
How do you account for the increasing complexity of multicellular life we see in the fossil record?

As I've said gawd knows how many times before Pete; go and find a horse in the Burgess Shale, a lion in the Triassic rocks of Utah, a pig in the Late Cretaceous rocks of the Hell Creek in Montana. If you're correct then these fossils should all be mixed up, but there are thousands of collectors out there looking in many, many fossiliferous beds and they have not found any of these yet. Why is that (clue: not a conspiracy, not confirmation bias, not a vested interest in keeping their job as most are volunteers, not dishonest scientists)?