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Fossils, strata and the flood

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killinghurts
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Message 1 of 163 (558161)
04-30-2010 2:07 AM

It is often stated by creationists:
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The fossils, and the sedimentary deposits they were entombed within, have simply been misinterpreted by the scientific community The fossil record is instead a recording of a devastating global scale flood.
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Source Fossils: The Biblical View
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Question:
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If a catastrophic earth wide flood event occurred, why do fossils appear near perfectly sorted within the geological strata?
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Wouldn't they have all been mixed up?
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The question (yet to be answered) has been best clarified by Apothecus in this thread:
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"Apothecus" writes:
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In the fossil record, why are the single celled organisms found way down at the bottom, followed by progressively more complex organisms like trilobites, and on and on past early reptiles, amphibians, early mammals (in order, mind you), with early humans and their accompanying fellow "modern" organisms at the top of the heap?
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This is what I would like a reasonable, evidence based answer to.
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Edited by killinghurts, : added clarification to question
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killinghurts
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Message 107 of 163 (558604)
05-02-2010 11:38 PM

Hi all.
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Apothecus has put the question better than what I have in the original post. This is what I would like a reasonable (i.e with clear evidence) reply to from the creationist community.
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"Apothecus" writes:
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In the fossil record, why are the single celled organisms found way down at the bottom, followed by progressively more complex organisms like trilobites, and on and on past early reptiles, amphibians, early mammals (in order, mind you), with early humans and their accompanying fellow "modern" organisms at the top of the heap? Would "magic water" make this happen and fly in the face of everything we observe about hydrodynamic sorting today?
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Thanks.
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Message 109 of 163 (558970)
05-05-2010 9:18 PM

Thanks Dr Adequate, I can't help but detect a tone of sarcasm there...
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Anyone else from the creationist community care to answer the question?
  
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05-13-2010 3:13 AM 		Reply to: Message 110 by Architect-426
05-07-2010 10:56 PM

Re: "Geology" is jacked-up... Stratification = Massive Volcanism
Hi Architect-426
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"Architect-426" writes:
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These guys cannot shake the early dogmatic teaching from Great Britain regarding the made up geological (illogical) time column.
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Can you please detail (with examples) the "dogmatic teaching from Great Britain" to which you refer?
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Thank you.
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