Re: diatoms and the global flood

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:14:59 -0500

At 09:32 AM 9/25/98 -0600, Karen G. Jensen wrote:
>
>Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:43:01 -0500
>Glenn Morton gave some possible scenarios re: diatoms and the flood [see
>below].
>
>Here's another possiblility:
>
>5. Diatoms lived in upland waters preflood, and were not washed into the
>sediments until rising water eroded those uplands (so they are not found in
>Paleozoic deposits). During the high-water phase of the Flood, when
>diatoms
>had mixed into the ocean, some species found conditions favorable for
>massive multiplication, generating the multitudes of diatoms (with their
>C26 steranes) found in Cretaceous deposits. Then, when the floodwaters
>receded, leaving giant lakes in many places around the world, some of the
>lakes provided appropriate nutrients, temperatures, etc. for extremely
>prodigious diatom multiplication (different species in different areas),
>until the nutrients etc. were exhausted or the lake was filled, leaving the
>mid-upper Tertiary diatomite deposits we mine today.

I will accept that as a global flood possibility. But then the problem
comes that most freshwater creatures can't handle the salt in the ocean and
die. One must almost believe in evolution to have this occur.
glenn

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