la brea tar pits/ humphreys

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Originally posted by funkmasterfreaky:
Interesting topic. Seems the only info i can find is on Christian based web pages.

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Look a little further.

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Hmmm how come other science pages don't mention this? Wonder why this has been here for a few days and no one wants to talk about it? Interesting indeed.

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Actually, I believe we beat this to death not long ago. Creationist partisans had little of substance to counter evolutionist arguments, as usual. It got to be pretty tedious, so now the subject is soporific. Perhaps Moose can give you a link to that thread. Or perhaps you could dredge up one (please, just one at a time) creationist argument and we could discuss it. Making vague charges like the one below are not really worth discussing.

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I'd look in to it more there graedek, but as far as pure data you should know better than to ask for something as silly as that. Either side will have arranged selective facts in such a way that it could support their theory. And i would venture to guess that neither side is providing the the whole truth thus they are both lying to you. With holding facts and data that was discovered because they couldn't plug it into their theory. Pure raw data indeed!

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An interesting charge. Perhaps you can confirm it?

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I found this interesting, as I was told that the animal remains in the tar pits must have all wandered into the brear tar pits. I'm wondering how water logged wood walks into a tar pit.

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Hmm, maybe it's time to resurrect my old hydrocarbon flood theory...Anyway, finding logs, twigs, etc., in a tar pit is hardly surprising, regardless of what fantastic story Terry wishes to rationalize. Most tar pits are 'pits' or depressions in the ground, or even in stream beds. As such, they would collect trees and other materials falling into them, including water. Sorry, but this is no mystery at all. Just another intellectual contortion by the creationist mind.