Re: index fossils

Bill Payne (bpayne15@juno.com)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:31:34 -0600

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:43:10 -0500 "Glenn R. Morton"
<grmorton@waymark.net> writes:

>It is the settling rate of these nannofossils that prevents their rapid
>burial. Remember Stokes law for something like a nannofossil requires
that
>it would take up to 51 years for it to fall to the ocean floor. The
flood
>only lasted one year.

Why do you say that rapid burial is necessary, and why do the
nannofossils need to be deposited during the Flood?

>And there is total separation of morphological form
>which would not be the case for stress induced morphological change.

How would you differentiate between "stress-induced morphological change"
and change resulting from evolution? Aren't both supposed to be gradual?

>Believe what you want, Reality only allows certain things to be true and
>requires other things to be false.

Unless God intervenes supernaturally. And the reality you speak of is
experientially based; since we are all limited in our experiences, then
we are also limited in our understanding of reality.

Bill