From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 16:31:12 EST
That would be a totally unfair comment if it were not true!
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: test questions-old topic
> bivalve wrote:
> >
> > >Bivalve fossils (eg. clams) are commonly found closed, yet today when
bivalves die the shells open and are disarticulated. Articulated bivalves
are further e
> > >Please point out the false statements and semantic games.
> >
> > The claim that bivalves invariably open and get disarticulated after
death is a false statement. The forms most commonly found articulated are
those that are
> >
> > Other species have extremely tightly attaching hinges, so that it takes
breaking the shell to detach the valves. Also, there is variation in
strength and deca
> >
> > Secondly, although the total number of articulated fossil bivalves is
quite large, disarticulated specimens are much more common, and fragments
commoner still.
> >
> > Finally, the evidence of myriad separate events of rapid burial,
interspersed with abundant evidence of slow deposition or even erosion, in
no way supports a y
>
> (Apolgies for chopped off lines - not sure whose fault they are.)
> It will be interesting to see if this prompts any reconsideration by
whoever it
> was that originally posted this YEC "proof." My experience is that YECs
are quite free
> with such claims &, when they are refuted never pause to wonder if there
may be
> something wrong with their position. Instead they just say "Whatever" &
go on to the
> next spurious argument.
> Shalom,
> George
>
>
> George L. Murphy
> gmurphy@raex.com
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
>
>
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