[quote]pushharder wrote:
Jab1 wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Why do you struggle against my nudging? The facts are, 100% of the time, the body (plant or animal), cannot decay before fossilization occurs. Right? C’mon, man, cough it up.
Or do you want to assert that a dead plant or animal can rot away into nothingness and then somehow, magically, a fossil appears out of nowhere? No, no, no, you don’t want to assert that. So tell me what ABSOLUTELY must happen for fossilization to occur. If you tell me that a dead, carbon based life form can just lay on the ground or in the water for millions of years and bacteria will not consume it while the gods of evolution work their magic…then…I am going to laugh at you far louder than you presume to laugh at the Flood.
I’m not sure where you’re getting this strawman from. Have I not already said that sediment covering an organism will preserve it, and told you about the mechanisms by which is does this? What about falling in to a tar bit, which causes quite rapid preservation? Or the example I gave above about old Darwinius? You know actually bits can decay before fossilisation occurs, which is why there are far more fossils of bones (which take freaking ages to decay) than soft tissues. Like I already said, it depends on the tissues and the circumstances. When have I ever even vaguely hinted that a “dead, carbon based life form can just lay on the ground or in the water for millions of years and bacteria will not consume it”?
Please, stop this duplicity, what both of us have written is on this board for anyone to see and you’re making a fool of yourself by conjuring up things I am supposed to have said.
You apparently think that there is one thing that must happen for fossilisation, and I’m pretty sure you think it was a global flood, which very rapidly covered animals with layers of sediment and pressure (please correct me if I’m wrong on this though). If that was so, where does coal from?
Settle down, friend. Your panties are wadded up so tightly in your ass crack that you are subject to your scrotum being fossilized from the heat and pressure. Take a deep breath. Exhale. Say, “I’m going to play in Push’s sandbox and behave myself for awhile.”
You did not emphasize until now that the body must be covered in mud quickly before scavengers or bacteria work their will. Then pressure and heat do their thing.
So, in the creationist model we have an idea, the Great Flood, that says if it did indeed occur we would expect to find millions of dead things, covered in mud, weighed down by water, all over the earth. What do we find on the terrestrial orb of ours, JabbyTightPanties? Voila! We find evidence of millions of dead things that at one time were covered in mud then weighed down by water all over the earth.
And the really cool thing is fossils have been known to form in a relatively short time, ~ 100 - 200 years. Want proof?
Coal can form rapidly too. Want proof? Huh?
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You have serious reading comprehension problems. I’ve already said that I know that fossils can form in a short time. Please do enlighten me about the rapid formation of coal though.
I’m not entirely sure where you got the idea that I was unsettled from, but evidently someone who is so totally lacking in evidence feels the need to resort to childish taunts. That’s ok, you’ve done it before; I’d expect nothing less, or more, from you by now.
If the flood provided such perfect circumstances for fossilisation, why are fossils so rare? How do you explain geological strata and the ages of things? Surely you’re not suggesting that the majority of fossils we have today are from the same period of time? Did dinosaurs live with humans?
I’d really like you to provide me with some evidence for a global flood too. Pretty please.
