How did Noah fit all those animals on the ark?

"Such a claim and such a theory goes against every geological fact that humankind has ever discovered. If the fossil record had been made due to The Flood, then why aren't the fossils of dinosaurs side by side with (i.e. in the same geological layers as) the fossils of people and other more modern animals? In fact, why is it that when scientests investigate the sedimentary layers which are the farthest down (i.e. the earliest layers of sedimentary rock), which contain fossils and therefore evidence of life during the periods those layers were formed, they find only extremely primitive, single cell life forms? Why, indeed then, do the fossils of dinosaurs and their contemporary animals and plants companions exist only in sedimentary layers that fall between those earliest, most simple life forms and those sedimentary layers in which humankind first walked the earth?

Now, from Creationists besides these two gentlemen on TV, I've heard the theory that these differing layers, with (only) single celled animals at the bottom, dinosaurs farther up, and people, goats, kangaroos and other more modern animals at the top, was simply due to the various dead animals floating to the bottom of the world wide ocean (created by the flood) at varying rates. However, as interesting of a theory as this is, it (excuse the pun) does not hold water. Anyone who has ever poured dirt and rocks into a bucket knows that the heaviest and largest objects sink into water fastest, with smaller objects falling at a slower rate, and with particulates being actually suspended in the water for a long time. This being the case, if The Flood was responsible for the distribution of the fossil records, we would expect that the largest dinosaurs along with elephants and wooly mammoths would be on the layers farthest down, smaller dinosaurs along with sheep, lions and people farther up, squirrels and rabbits farther up still, roaches, spiders and worms farther up still, and single celled organisms at the very top. But that is simply not the case."

http://www.sodabob.com/DeepThoughts/DT_2002_10_14.asp


IAC, you have no response to the above. :D

Have fun chasing your tail.
 
Not surprisingly, your "expert" avoids turbidity currents and other higher energy sedimentary environments of the Deluge.

And most of the land animals were able to retreat for a time before drowning and decomposing. What is left in the fossil record are predictably the marine creatures and the less mobile land creatures, Scruffy.
 
Many turbidity flows from constantly varying directions and intensities during the Deluge, with periods of only CaCO3 precipitation, and periods where only slurries in low energy environments were settling out.
 
And most of the land animals were able to retreat for a time before drowning and decomposing. What is left in the fossil record are predictably the marine creatures and the less mobile land creatures, Scruffy.

less mobile land creatures? like what? name a few?

Why are the hominid "cavemen" on the highest level of sediment?

Why are certain species of dinosaurs or other ancient creatures only found in specific layers of sediment?

Did all the separate species get together and say: "Okay guys. Let's all hide in this one cave here so we all end up in the same sediment layer when we die. See those other dinosaurs, they will hide a little higher than us so they could also have their own sediment layer."

IAC, you are very imaginative.
 
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Let me educate you as to why the fossils are in the order they are in:

The principle of Faunal Succesion

The principle of faunal succession holds that different strata contain particular types of fossilised flora and fauna, and that these fossil forms succeed each other in a specific and predictable order that can be identified over wide distances. A fossilised Neanderthal bone will never be found in the same stratum as a fossilised Megalosaurus, for example, because the two species evolved in different geological periods, separated by many millions of years. This allows for strata to be identified and dated by the fossils found within them.

This principle, first identified in the early 1790s by the geologist William Smith, is of great importance in determining the relative age of rocks and strata.[1] The fossil content of rocks can be correlated with the law of superposition to determine the sequence in which the rocks were laid down and over what period this took place.

The principle of faunal succession is also of great importance to the theory of evolution, which predicts that archaic biological features and organisms will be succeeded in the fossil record by more modern versions. For instance, paleontologists investigating the evolution of birds predicted that feathers would first be seen in primitive forms on flightless predecessor organisms such as feathered dinosaurs. This is precisely what has been discovered in the fossil record: simple feathers, incapable of supporting flight, are succeeded by increasingly large and complex feathers.[2]

In practice, the most useful diagnostic species are those with the fastest rate of species turnover and the widest distribution; their study is termed biostratigraphy, the science of dating rocks by using the fossils contained within them. In Cenozoic strata, fossilized tests of foraminifera are often used to determine faunal succession on a refined scale, each biostratigraphic unit or biozones being an interval of geological strata that is defined on the basis of its characteristic fossil taxa. An outline microfaunal zonal scheme based on both foraminifera and ostracoda was compiled by M. B. Hart (1972).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_faunal_succession
 
Frogs, lizards, turtles, etc.

"Cavemen" are post Deluge, although Cremo in his Forbidden Archaeology cites hundreds of examples of remains and artifacts in layers which are allegedly tens of millions of years old.
 
"Many different kinds of dragons are described in the legends and written histories."

- IAC

That's the only quote we need to know. LOL.
 
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