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Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Mon, 31 Aug 1998 06:15:49 -0500

At 11:32 AM 8/31/98 -0700, Pim van Meurs wrote:
>"An evolutionist geologist wrote, "A carcass after death is almost sure to
be torn apart or devoured by carnivores or other scavengers, and if it
escapes these larger enemies, bacteria insure the decay of all but the hard
parts, and even they crumble to dust after a few years if exposed to the
weather. If buried under moist sediment or standing water, however,
weathering is prevented, decay is greatly reduced, and scavengers cannot
disturb the remains. For these reasons burial soon after death is the most
important condition favoring preservation...Water-borne sediments are so
much more widely distributed than all other
>kinds, that they include the great majority of all fossils. Flooded
streams drown and bury their victims in the shifting channel sands or in
the mud of the valley floor."
>
>I surely hope that Morris did not use this as evidence of a 'great flood'
since the quote appears to not support this. Does anyone have the book ? I
hate to spend good money on trash. [ Morris, Henry M. The Twilight of
Evolution, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1967. ]

Morris precedes the above quote by

"And then meditate upon the remarkable fact that, for the most part, the
fossils simply must have been laid down under sudden and probably
catastrophic conditions or else they would never have been preserved as
fossils at all! Even such a consistent evolutionary uniformitarian
geologist as Dunbar recognizes that practically all fossils must have been
formed by floods or other catastrophes." Twilight, p. 62

glenn

Adam, Apes and Anthropology
Foundation, Fall and Flood
& lots of creation/evolution information
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm