Re: 7 Days

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:32:11 GMT, "Michael Gaskell"
<msgaskell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Nick Milton" <nickspamtrap_milton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 13 Sep 2006 03:45:51 -0700, marcandmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Michael Gaskell wrote:

It was Marc who wrote: "So God falsified the evidence?"


sorry to be a fly in the ointment, but I said God altered the evidence,
not falsified it.
It was because of human sin that God allowed death and decay into the
world, and also brought a worldwide flood

Ther is no geological evidence for a world-wide flood.

What's the theory for how whales end up in the fossil record?

Do they die then sink to the seabed and get covered in sand, then after
millions of years become fossilised, is that how it works?

There are whale carcasses at the bottom of the sea now. What do you
think would happen to them if they were covered by mud or sand?

A partially buried, articulated whale skeleton being covered by
sedimentation in the deep ocean off the coast of California has been
observed by oceanographers diving in submersibles. It is an excellent
modern analogue of how whale fossils are created (ref Allison et al.
1990; Smith et al. 1989). Many other whale carcasses have been
discovered in this area, in sites of active deposition.

Now let's hear your theory. While you are at it, you can explain why
different fossil whale species are found in different stratigraphic
layers, the oldest (basilosaurids and dorudontids) having teeth and
vestigial hind limbs.

Nick

Allison, P. A., Smith, C. R., Kukert, H., Deming, J. W., and Bennett,
B. A., 1990, Deep-water taphonomy of vertebrate carcasses: a whale
skeleton in the bathyal Santa Catalina Basin. Paleobiology. vol. 17,
pp. 78-89.

Smith, C. R., Kukert, H., Wheatcroft, R. A., Jumars, P. A., and
Deming, J. W., 1989. Vent fauna on whale remains. Nature, vol. 341,
pp. 27-28. (Set. 7, 1989).
.

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