Re: [asa] ICR for August

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> >2. The geological column is a fiction ... Huse, Scott, 1983. The Collapse
> of Evolution. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House
> ....
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> Henry Morris has variously tried to deny fossil order (or faunal
succession); or try to explain it away as a function of ecological zones and
ability to flee rising flood waters (dinosaur fossils are found below large
mammal fossils because dinosaurs either lived at lower elevations or mammals
were smarter about fleeing the flood); or try to explain it as a function of
hydrologic sorting (dinosaur bones sink faster than mammal bones). Note
that all three of Morris' explanations are mutually exclusive - each one
contradicts the others. <

Huse didn't notice that-he claims that the Flood explains the geologic
column with a couple of these mechanisms and also claims that the geologic
column is a fiction invented in support of evolution. Incidentally, it's
not hard to disprove both claims. The geologic column was developed before
Darwin's publication on evolution led to widespread acceptance of the idea,
and the basic principles were set forth by Steno before the age of the earth
was much of an issue. Ecological, hydrological, or escape abiliy
explanations for the distribution of fossils in the geologic record fail to
explain the presence of hydrologically similar shallow marine organisms and
certain microfossils throughout the column, though the species composition
of these faunas changes through the column. For example, corals show zero
escape ability and occur at various depths in marine habitats. Different
orders, families, genera, and species occur as one goes through the geologic
column from Cambrian to Holocene.

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Dr. David Campbell
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University of Alabama
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