[Ok, so how would receding flood waters distribute the remains of animals and plants?]
By the force of the flow of water over soft sediment (take the eroding of the Grand Canyon as an example) the animals that might have perished in the various layers would get washed out only this time that would get reburied in the reverse order to what they were originally ie the last buried would be the first to get washed out and then find itself at the bottom of the new pile of debris
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Isn't this based on dr dino's idea of the grand canyon being carved out in a short time at the end of the flood?
Look, instead of sitting on-line and talking about shit you don't know about, go to the library and have someone help you in the children's section. Get some books about dinosaurs and the formation of the earth and resubmit your post.
Supposedly. Err? Huwha!? If the entire earth were flooded with water...wouldn't all fossils be on the SAME level in random, disorganized pile? Furthermore wouldn't the distribution of particular types of fossils vary from place to place? I mean humans appearing to have evolved (scuze me been 'created') before the dinosaurs in Africa but afterwards in Asia, etc.?
Its an easily replicatable experiment...you could probably do it in your backyard.
"animals that might have perished in the various layers would get washed out only this time that would get reburied in the reverse order to what they were originally ie the last buried would be the first to get washed out and then find itself at the bottom of the new pile of debris"
Thats the most organised flood I've ever heard on. Most floods just mix everything up, and they don't even last 400 days.
The grand canyon story is a standard fundie sound clip. At the very end of the flood, when the sediments that make the walls of the canyon have been deposited, the last streams of water
flowing away cut the grand canyon in a few days because it was still mud, not rock. They don't explain how you get mud to form a vertical cliff a thousand feet high.
So you're saying that all the dinosaurs should be on top, and we should be finding Egyptian artifacts and skeletons if we dig further?
Interesting hypothesis. Except for the part where no, you're an idiot.
You're presupposing that animals died over a long period of time and got buried in various layers BEFORE the flood. And that the flood washed out the various layers level by level, in a very methodical fashion, without mixing any of them up. Your hypothesis is such bullshit, I'm amazed you would post it for anyone to see.
“By the force of the flow of water over soft sediment (take the eroding of the Grand Canyon as an example)”
The Grand Canyon twists. The amount of force necessary for the Floodwaters to move THAT MUCH soil would have left a much straighter channel. I haven’t made a formal study of Erosion, but the tracks I’ve seen in mud after a single even are largely straight lines. agged, but nothing curving back on itself. NOthing like the path of the Colorado River.
"the animals that might have perished in the various layers would get washed out only this time that would get reburied in the reverse order to what they were originally. So, somewhere downstream of the Grand Canyon we should find fossils in the mirror positions of the fossils in teh Canyon’s walls? You have a reference for these?
"ie the last buried would be the first to get washed out and then find itself at the bottom of the new pile of debris”
This assumes that the Flood itself ordered them in the deposits of strata in the first place. Any reference to an observation of a flood, or a mud slide, sorting the debris? Seems to me more like it’s always a jumbled mass, if it’s from one single event. We would not find all the t-rex at one strata, and all the stegasaurus at a distinct, different strata.
So it shouldbe, if the Creationist model is worth a shit, a jumbled mass that fed into a differently jumpled mass.
And just ONE question: Exactly how did the flood waters sort all the dinos to distinct layers, AND their eggs to the same layers, AND their emptied egg shells, AND their nests, AND (and this is the tricky one) Their footprints? ALL THIS EARTH moving around as mud and they still retain footprints? Please describe the experiment that would show this in action.
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