More Questions for Christians

[Drich]

Sorey, I left a reference out.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen_whale

The Washington post identifies the baleen whale. The reference above tells us the baleen whale first appeared in the Oligocene period. (33 to 23 million years ago.) thats the earliest they could have been there, (the sea sloth the found reels the number back to just one or two million years ago, the post dates the whales with in a few thousand years of the sloths.) while again the whole region was a desert from the Triassic period 2 or 3 hundred million year before.

You also misread your data regarding the desert; it says that some sections of it remained persistently arid, not all. This accounts for the fact that the fossilized animals were beached on shore portions of the landmass, rather than sinking. Your problem only exists because you accidentally skipped a word in your source.

Did you really think that if the timing was that out of whack, that the scientists involved wouldn't have noticed?

Looks like we both need to look at what we read a little more closly.

Arid= Not enough moisture to sustain plant life.
Plateau= relitivly flat and Elevated (above sea level) area.
(First sentence in the wiki link concerning the desert, that you seemed to miss.)
The bigger issue here is not whether or not there is enough rain fall to sustain plant life for sever hundred million years, but whether or not being 1600ft to just over one mile above sea level is the right enviorment for sea life.

The coastal chain hovers around 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) or so in elevation with individual peaks reaching to 6,560 feet (2,000 metres). There is no coastal plain; through much of their extent the mountains terminate abruptly at the sea in cliffs, some of them higher than 1,600 feet (500 metres), making communication difficult between the coastal ports and the interior. In the interior a raised depression extends north and south and forms the high Tamarugal Plain at an elevation of more than 3,000 feet (900 metres).

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topi...ama-Desert

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Oh, and as luck would have it the coastal area that contains the fossils in question are indeed apart of the hyper arid climate that extends back to the triassic period. It's the areas near the mountains that receive some mositure.

http://serc.carleton.edu/details/images/17327.html

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The above means that the time that area spent on the sea floor was well before those animals could have naturally died there. So check and mate. (Check being the elevation, and mate being the fact that 'science' says that area has been super dry from hundreds of millions of years.)