RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
January 13, 2019 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2019 at 3:30 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(January 13, 2019 at 2:51 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote:(January 13, 2019 at 5:09 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That's actually not how aquatic fossils get to mountaintops. It's more of a techntonicy-upthrusty thing.
Boru
Ummm, nope. Fossilization is almost always a result of flooding. Fossilization is actually a rarity nowadays. If you see an animal hit by a car on, or alongside, a road it will just decompose over time. Now if a road is rapidly flooded and there was an animal there, the chances will be increased of that animal being fossilized since it can rapidly bury that animal as well as cut off oxygen from reaching the corpse. Over time that sediment it's locked away in with replicate it by exchanging molecules with it so that you have a fossil.
OK, almost everything about that is either wrong or misleading (note that I said 'almost', so you're getting better).
Fossilization is almost never a result of flooding. Over 95% of the fossils we've collected are aquatic - from swamps or shallow seas. The key to becoming a fossil is to die in the right place.
There is no information that I'm aware of that fossilization rates have changed over time (if you can source it, I'll happily accept the correction_ - it's always been a rarity. Estimates from people who know much more about this than you or I are that only about 1 in a billion bones have ever been fossilized.
And yes, the fossils, even on very high mountains are from low-lying areas. They weren't fossilized on the mountain, or carried there by floodwaters. They were pushed up right along with the mountains.
Boru
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