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Old 01-27-2002, 07:07 AM   #1
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Here is another grenade for Patrick to toss at the YECs:

<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991839" target="_blank">http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991839</a>
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Can anyone say a trillionth nail into the coffin of flood geology?
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<strong>Can anyone say a trillionth nail into the coffin of flood geology?</strong>
That coffin ain't nothing but nails. :-)

And they have all rusted together.
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Thanks LV. 50cm in diameter? Those were some pretty big jellyfish.
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There's another good article in last month's GSA Today, available on-line, describing an Eocene 'fossil forest' from Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic.

<a href="http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-document&issn=1052-5173&volume=012&issue=01&page=0004#i1052-5173-012-01-0004-f02" target="_blank">Eocene Meridional Weather Patterns Reflected in the Oxygen Isotopes of Arctic Fossil Wood. GSA Today: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 4-9.</a>

The stratigraphic sequence illustrated below indicates that there are ~8 levels containing upright stumps interpreted as in situ.


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Those poor jellyfish. Beaching themselves in the middle of a world-wide flood.

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Originally posted by LordValentine:
<strong>Here is another grenade for Patrick to toss at the YECs:

<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991839" target="_blank">http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991839</a></strong>
If only it were that easy:

&lt;InvalidReasoning type=YEC&gt;
You evos are so easily confused! The fact the
beaches and jellyfish are so rarely preserved
just proves that this must have happened as
a result of the global flood, just as the Bible
tells us! Clearly the beach was covered quickly
by sediments caused by the flood. Besides, if
these jellyfish were 500 million years old, then
evolution would have made the modern ones
different! They would have evolved different
escape mechanisms!

Why do I know this? Examining the facts? Years
of study? No, the bible says so!

I will pray for your confused souls...
&lt;/InvalidReasoning&gt;

Gosh, I'm scaring myself....
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&lt;InvalidReasoning type=YEC&gt;
<a href="http://www.theologyonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1229" target="_blank">bob b from theologyonline forums</a>
&lt;/InvalidReasoning&gt;

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The problem with that hypothesis is that the beach is beautifully preserved. If highly rapidly moving water and sediment had covered it, the pattern would have been destroyed, not to mention the concentration of jellyfish in one place is contrary to a flood which would have scattered them very quickly.
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<strong>The problem with that hypothesis is that the beach is beautifully preserved. If highly rapidly moving water and sediment had covered it, the pattern would have been destroyed, not to mention the concentration of jellyfish in one place is contrary to a flood which would have scattered them very quickly.</strong>
Were you there?!! Nothing can contradict the Bible -- it's God's word, after all. So you evos need to find out where your reasoning is wrong! To do otherwise just shows that science is nothing but codified atheism.



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