>[snip -- see below].
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>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
I accept adaptation as clearly demonstrated. It could be that the preflood
oceans were less salty than today's seas (perhaps isotonic?) and only those
diatoms which could survive salty water lived to multiply and diversify
there.
Karen
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> 09:32 AM 9/25/98 -0600, Karen G. Jensen wrote:
>>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.
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