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Author Topic:   Potential Evidence for a Global Flood
Granny Magda
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Message 235 of 320 (633043)
09-12-2011 8:05 AM
Reply to: Message 221 by Just being real
09-11-2011 10:54 PM


Re: Polystrate fossils
Hi JBR,
I can see that you've already had plenty of replies, so just two brief points;
Yet the examples of thousands of polystrate tree and animal fossils I am referring to are found as well preserved at the top portions as they are at the bottom.
1) As well preserved at the top as at the bottom? That doesn't sound like a flood to me. If there are trees fossilised in situ both at the top and the bottom of the formation, they cannot have deposited in a single event. At least, not unless antediluvian trees grew in mid air. What you describe is only consistent with gradual deposition of layer upon layer. No individual layer would have taken millions of years to form, but nor could it have been formed as quickly as you suggest. Such a formation could not possibly have been caused by a single huge flood.
2) Thousands of examples? That's not very many. Surely if the whole of the world was flooded, there would have been entire forests of trees buried by the sediment? We could reasonably expect to see hundreds of millions of such fossils. They would be everywhere, great forests of them. That is not what we see.
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Granny Magda
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Message 242 of 320 (633235)
09-13-2011 9:15 AM
Reply to: Message 241 by Minnemooseus
09-12-2011 7:45 PM


Re: Polystrate fossils
Hi Moose,
Hopefully JBR will clarify for us. If he did mean that the tops of the trees where well preserved then that would be odd. Mostly because a) they're not; and b) we wouldn't expect them to be well preserved had they been exposed to a global deluge, we'd expect them to be stripped bare.
Now different tree horizons at completely different stratagraphic levels are another thing. You are not going to get root system paleosoils covered by some sort of "flood event", then stratigraphicly higher up root system paleosoils covered by some sort of "flood event", all from the same "flood event".
I agree and further, it is very easy to point to examples of this; multiple layers of paleosoil, with plant fossils standing vertically in them, with roots attached, lying layer upon layer. I would be very interested to hear how JBR would square this with a global flood.
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