Re: Another Flood Conundrum

On Jul 29, 9:31 am, "Greg G." <ggw...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We are familiar with "body fossils" which are parts of an entity. Then
there are "trace fossils" such as nests, footprints, and other signs
of activity of lifeforms, also called "ichnofossils". The journal
_Ichnos_  is devoted to the study of ichnofossils.

Ichnos recently had an article on a partial dinosaur fossil from
Wyoming in the Morrison Formation. The bones had pits and holes with
parallel scratch marks that match the jaws of dermestid beetles.

Dermestids are the last of the scavengers on a dead body. After the
maggots have eaten all the juicy bits, the dermestids eat the skin,
sinews, and cartilage, once they are dry. (Often they are used to
clean a skeleton for study or display.)  When the other parts are
gone, they will start munching on the bones.

According to some creationists (most recently McNameless), the Flood
came in stages with water coming and going. In this scenario, the
Cambrian, Devonian, Permian, Triassic periods had been buried, all the
Jurassic dinosaurs were dead, but not yet buried, but none of the
Cretaceous dinosaurs and most mammals had been harmed, apparently. How
long was this interlude? Long enough for several dinosaurs to be
stripped clean by insect larva and beetles, surely more than 40 days
and 40 nights. Finally, those bones were buried and the Cretaceous
creatures were drowned and buried, then several episodes for all the
eras since the K/T boundary.

Please reconcile this evidence.

This post is inspired by a newspaper column on the fossils by Dale
Gnidovec, curator of the Orton Geological Museum at Ohio State
University.

--
Greg G.

Drop your conspiracy theory! We have you surrounded!

id like to know how creationists can explain stacked petrified sand
dunes. you have a stack of petrified dunes all facing different
directions... how can a flood do this?

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