pz

I don't think you can even dignify a carcass that's been floating for a year with the term "carrion", which makes it moot whether a carnivore will stoop to eating carrion or not. It ain't flesh anymore. It's a stain in the mud, or a putrid bacterial soup washing out with the tide. At best.

Quetzal

I'd be extraordinarily curious as to Socrates answer to the question: What happened to all the dead rotting carcasses? I mean, assuming only two of each limited "kind" (unless it was seven) on the Ark, and fundy claims that there's "nothing new under the sun", what happened to the miles-think layer of putrefying dead meat from all those critters - everything from acanthostega to field mice and humans - that had to have died in the Flud? It must have been a really disgusting pile of, err, stuff, that Noah and Co. landing in - not Mount Arrarat, but a mountain of deliquescing flesh.

And they lived?

Monkey

He may be talking about stratification in aquatic systems. It's surprisingly stable but I don't think it could prevent the mixing of fresh and salt water during a global flood or maintain the specific envionments of Earths marine and freshwater aquatic biota.

The ICR published something about stratification and the flood:

http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-222.htm

Oolon Colluphid

Haha! Morpho, you've made my day with "deliquescing"! What a, erm, delicious word!
Of course not. The schistosomes, trypanosomes, Plasmodium, cholera, typhoid, typhus, hep B, Ebola, Lassa and the rest killed them off long before disembarking onto that squidgy mess...

DT