tgamble

Scott Huse stated in his book:

"There are caves, fissures, and mass burial sites around the world that are literally packed with masses of fossils; often times the fossils of these various animals come from widely seperated and differing climactic zones, only to be thrown together in disorderly masses."

Is this accurate? His book is reccemended by Jack Chick which is a very good reason to be skeptical of his claims! Thanks. He seems to have all the scholarship and knowlege of Kent Hovind.http://hometown.aol.com/whatwulddarwindo/creationcritique/creation.html

Obviously local disasters can explain fossil graveyards but why would they include animals exclusive to different climate areas. Unless the climate was different at the time.

The alleged locations include Huse was specific where these places are;England, France, California,USA, Scotland, and the Baltic Amber deposits,Nebraska,USA.

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MrDarwin

I use a standard rule of thumb for such claims: if the assertion is made without going into any detail about it, and if it is not backed up with specific citations from the literature, then he's probably just making it up.

Dr.GH

There are sites which have complex fauna assemblages. These are to my knowledge
always traps such as caves or as in the case of the La Brea fauna, in tar pits. These traps
accumulate bone over a very long period of time and are not “mass burial” sites. The La
Brea tar pits are a good example with species from several THOUSAND years have
accumulated together. These bones collected across the late Pleistocene into the recent
period, a time period that saw the end of an ice age and a change in the environment from
forest to arid grassland. Another example is Shield Trap Cave in Montana, USA (Oliver
1989). This cave has bone and charcoal deposits which span nine thousand years, and as
it is still open, it could continue to accumulate bone for thousands of years more.

Mass burials are sites where large numbers of contemporaneous individuals are buried
simultaneously. All mass burial sites I know of reflect restricted species, although often
with very large numbers of individual animals. Huse is falsely joining two totally
different geological processes. Another liar for Jaysus. What a surprise.


Oliver, J. S.
1989 “Analogues and Site Context:Bones from Shield Trap Cave (24CB91). Carbon
County, Montana. USA” in Bone Modification, Bonnichsen and Sorg ed.s, Institute for
Quarternary Studies, Univer. of Maine.

Dr.GH

I should add that the notion Huse presents that there are totally discrete climatic regions
with totally exclusive fauna is also either very ignorant, or dishonest. Is he trying for
some sort of flood argument here, or all “kinds” were present at all times/places?

MrDarwin

But aren't trilobites, lepidodendrid trees, dinosaurs, whales and horses all jumbled up together in these deposits?