Asha'man

I was watching a Discovery channel show the other day about the T-Rex, and they mentioned the layer of Iridium found at the KT boundary.

How exactly do the YECs explain this? With the massive flood-sorting of fossils, I just can’t imagine a fine layer of iridium dust settling exactly at a particular layer of the mud.

Assuming the meteorite that provided the Iridium hit during the flood, how could it be deposited above half the dead animal corpses, but below the other half?

Is this just another nail in the flood-geology coffin? Can this idea be refined into another irrefutable argument to be kept in the arsenal? Or is there an escape I haven’t thought of?

Doubting Didymus

I think the standard response is that a worldwide flood would work in strange and mysterious ways and would probably mostly mimic layering.

I feel stupider just having typed that.

Besides, the flood stories' coffin has so many sodding nails in it that its practically made of solid iron.

Mageth

The ICR on the K-T boundary and dinosaur extinction.

Read it and weep. But don't quote it or any portion of it. They don't want their dribble being laughed at on our site.

It pretty much boils down to -

- the scienific theories and interpretation of the evidence regrading the extinction of the dinosaurs, the K-T boundary and the meteor that caused it are "uncertain". Since all scientists don't agree on them, geez, they can't be right.

- therefore, all of the historical extinctions cited by science happened in the one-year period of the Flood of the bible. It must be so, cuz the bible sez it's so.

- the flood may have involved several meteors striking the earth (as well as volcanic activity), which accounts for the impact sites that supposedly caused the great extinctions, as well as for the iridium deposits (which is a small portion of the sediments deposited during the flood)!

sensate

Things that were never alive don't get coffins. The YEC's flood has never been proven so don't flatter them by trying to disprove it.

lpetrich

One common view is that Noah's Flood had lots and lots and lots of surges, which is what produced all this complicated detail.

Noah's Flood, it seems, was a magic flood that could produce any rock formation and landform whatsoever.

Spaz

Hell, they're goin with unbelievable, why not go all the way?

Albion

They claim one of the theories involves mass suicide by dinosaurs? Wonder how they think that would have worked. Perhaps the dinosaurs thought the asteroid was the mothership or something and slit their own throats in order to get to dinosaur heaven faster.

ShabbyChick

Including layers of rock with ripple marks, mud cracks, and foot prints.

beausoleil

Is that worth worrying about? I thought there was a fair use (for criticism) exemption in copyright law.

Apart from the creation stuff at the end I thought it wasn't a bad summary.

Mageth

Is that worth worrying about? I thought there was a fair use (for criticism) exemption in copyright law.

Yes, there is a fair use exemption for criticism, among other purposes. But IMO it is worth worrying about, in that I wouldn't want to unnecessarily expose the SecWeb to lawsuits on which they might have to spend money to defend themselves which could be better spent elsewhere. That's why when dealing with sites like the ICR that post a strict copyright policy I prefer to link to and/or paraphrase their material.