RE: Whimpy Roots

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Payne [mailto:bpayne15@juno.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:39 PM
> To: glennmorton@entouch.net

> Thanks, Glenn. Kevin had said that a floating mat of vegetative debris
> would disperse. I forgot that these mats are alive and the roots would
> intertwine to lock the mat together where it could support people and
> dinosaurs.

I wouldn't go so far as to make the claim about big dinos. You have no
evidence of that. I have not seen anyone march an elephant across
Mississippi Delta

>
> > It is clear that the Pennsylvanian cyclothems were deposited on a very
> flat
> > topography.
>
> Yes, flatter than any swamps on the face of the earth today. So where's
> your modern analog?

Raise the sea level and the Amazon basin wouldn't be a bad analog. My point
was that slight rises and falls of sea level could account for the
sedimentation we see.

>
> > Such situations of floating vegetation, which we see today,
> > probably would have applied to that situation. And that would allow an
> > explantion of the partings. The partings occurred when muddy water
> flooded
> > the area. It filtered through the floating vegetation, left its shale.
>
> That's amazing, Glenn, you and I have the same explanation for partings.
> And thanks again - Kevin had hammered me when I said tonsteins were the
> result of turbidity flows; I like your explanation that they filtered
> down through the mats.

No we don't. You seem to think it requires a global flood. I don't. so we
don't have the same explanation.

>
> > And you know something, Bill? None of this requires the silliness of
> > believing the unbelievable, which is what you constantly ask us to
> > believe.
>
> Careful, Glenn, that door swings both ways.

It swings far wider on the YEC side. Tell me how these animals were able to
make these burrows when 50-100 feet per day of sediment was raining down on
them. http://home.entouch.net/dmd/burrowsGleannlochlakeRd4a.jpg
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/burrow3rdpillareastroseberryManortw.jpg

YEC silliness makes otherwise rational people believe that these animals
burrowed at super human rates--kind of like mighty mouse

> Yes, I have your book. On what basis do you assume that the layers are
> annual? If these roots represent a full year's growth, why are all the
> roots vertical; why no radiating roots? Also, why are the roots so thin
> and spaced out? Why are they so whimpy? Look at the roots attached to
> clumps of grass growing in real swamps and wetlands today, and tell me if
> those modern roots look like the ones in your photos.

Not all plants have radiating roots Bill.
Received on Tue Mar 9 06:55:41 2004