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KnightWhoSaysNi · 02-23-2003, 05:18 PM

From our friends at AIG : :banghead:

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The first series of illustrations shows what usually happens to fish when they die. In most instances, when fish die, they float, or by the time they sink to the bottom, they have already been attacked by scavengers and various parts of their body have begun decaying, etc. Before they can be covered by sediment, there�s either not much left of them, or they are greatly deformed, etc. This is a fact, which we all can observe.

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The second illustration shows what the education system has taught many people about the formation of fish fossils. When a fish dies, it slowly sinks to the bottom; it is slowly covered by sediment; and then it turns into a fossil. Based on what we observe today, this is �fiction.� It does not explain how millions of fish fossils have been perfectly preserved. To form the millions of fish we see in the fossil record, we would need a catastrophic event, which is what the illustration for next week represents.

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This week's illustrations show that only way to preserve millions of fish perfectly is through a catastrophic event. Sediment had to be dumped on them very, very quickly. This illustration shows a fish swimming along and then lots of sediment being dumped on it. The next illustration shows the fish buried under sediment and turning into a fossil, perfectly preserved.

Doubting Didymus · 02-23-2003, 05:25 PM

"why did god do that to the cute fish, daddy?"

theyeti · 02-23-2003, 05:41 PM

"Probably, son, because of something you did."

Doubting Didymus · 02-23-2003, 05:54 PM

Ain't theology grand?

Spaz · 02-23-2003, 05:54 PM

So that was when God flooded the earth with dirt?

AIG makes me want to light things on fire

Silent Dave · 02-24-2003, 02:40 AM

This is the same AIG that takes issue with Kent Hovind?

Dave

GreggLD1 · 02-24-2003, 07:43 AM

Why do these people even use computers? I mean, how could computers possibly work, when those dumb-as-fence-posts-scientists invented them?

Gregg

And haven't these people EVER seen a rotted, skeletal fish wash up on a beach? Ye godz.

butswana · 02-24-2003, 08:16 AM

Yeah, electron theory is JUST a theory.

Albion · 02-24-2003, 11:48 AM

Conveniently leaving out the little matters of different dates for different fossils and the different body shapes over time. But perhaps there wasn't room in the comic strip to mention that.

Jimmy Higgins · 02-24-2003, 12:45 PM

emphasis added:

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and then lots of sediment being dumped on it.

I thought sediment was particles that fall out of suspension with the flowing water, not a big pile of dirt!

What gets me the most is how the flood deposited both the bedrock and the soil! Nice neat very planer shale in Cleveland. Also a bunch of varved silty clays, from Lake Erie when it covered Cleveland a long time ago. Somehow the flood was capable of doing both of these at the same time.

I have a new rule. If cigarette companies can't use cartoons for advertising, neither can YEC's! Its misleading the children.

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02-23-2003, 05:25 PM	#2
Doubting Didymus Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: East Coast. Australia. Posts: 5,455	"why did god do that to the cute fish, daddy?"

02-23-2003, 05:41 PM	#3
theyeti Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Denver, CO, USA Posts: 9,747	"Probably, son, because of something you did."

02-23-2003, 05:54 PM	#4
Doubting Didymus Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: East Coast. Australia. Posts: 5,455	Ain't theology grand?

02-23-2003, 05:54 PM	#5
Spaz Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: 6th Circle of Hell Posts: 1,093	So that was when God flooded the earth with dirt? AIG makes me want to light things on fire

02-24-2003, 02:40 AM	#6
Silent Dave Banned Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Bloomington, MN Posts: 2,209	This is the same AIG that takes issue with Kent Hovind? Dave

02-24-2003, 07:43 AM	#7
GreggLD1 Regular Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 151	Why do these people even use computers? I mean, how could computers possibly work, when those dumb-as-fence-posts-scientists invented them? Gregg And haven't these people EVER seen a rotted, skeletal fish wash up on a beach? Ye godz.

02-24-2003, 08:16 AM	#8
butswana Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 1,804	Yeah, electron theory is JUST a theory.

02-24-2003, 11:48 AM	#9
Albion Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: US east coast. And www.theroyalforums.com Posts: 2,829	Conveniently leaving out the little matters of different dates for different fossils and the different body shapes over time. But perhaps there wasn't room in the comic strip to mention that.

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