Creationists, how do you exlpain this?

Channeling a creationist :

"Well, all fossils were laid down in the Flood. The reason we don't see a single jumbled layer of fossils (as would be expected) is because of some sort of physical process that sounded valid to me when I read it on a creationist website because I don't really understand science well enough to recognize when someone is lying to me."

First of all, there is only one place that the geological column you describe exists, and that's in your government-funded high school biology textbook.

Second, we find plenty of fossils that are supposedly out of order, and we find plenty of fossils that penetrate several layers of strata.

Third, think about where most "simple" life forms were when they were buried in the flood. They were on the ocean bed or in the dirt. They were already on the bottom, so naturally they were buried first, and other animals were deposited on top of them. Besides, a clam has a much harder time getting away from a wall of muddy water than a horse or a bird. Humans were usually deposited last because of their intelligence and ability to evade death and burial for a while. That's why we find so few human fossils compared to other animals. It's also why we find fewer bird fossils. Flight is a wonderful tool when you're trying to prolong your life. When the survivors of the initial eruptions and tsunamis finally died, they remained unburied and were subject to decay and scavenging.

Edit: I'd like to meet these tens of thousands of scientists. I was under the impression that there were only a few hundred particularly vocal ones.

I'd also like to know, if the geological column exists, where is it? How come we only see illustrations and not photographs?

And if you saw a wall of water coming, where would you run first? Up, right? Humans back then were extremely intelligent, possessing lifespans and equivalent experience of 912 years on average. I'm sure they had ways of getting away from the water. Besides, as you should well know, not every animal, plant or person to be buried is necessarily petrified. Some become oil, coal or chalk. Some simply waste away to nothing.

And the flood did not destroy all plant life. Some survived, like olives. Plus, Noah replanted seeds from the food stores he had on the ark. One of the first crops grown after the flood was grapes.

the world wide flood drowned all the animals and deposited them in different layers as they were laid down

no it does not demonstrate that

researchers even state it does not

The history of most fossil species include two features particularly

inconsistent with gradualism:

1) Stasis - most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually

limited and directionless;

2) Sudden appearance - in any local area, a species

does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; it

appears all at once and 'fully formed'. 44

44 S.J. Gould, "Evolution's Erratic Pace", Natural History, vol. 86, May 1977.

the fossil record does not support a gradual increase in more better animals

ancestor animals are constantly found above the animals they were said to have evolved to.

ever hear of the cambrian explosion

STEPHEN J. GOULD, HARVARD, "The Cambrian Explosion occurred in a geological moment, and we have reason to think that all major anatomical designs may have made their evolutionary appearance at that time. ...not only the phylum Chordata itself, but also all its major divisions, arose within the Cambrian Explosion. So much for chordate uniqueness... Contrary to Darwin's expectation that new data would reveal gradualistic continuity with slow and steady expansion, all major discoveries of the past century have only heightened the massiveness and geological abruptness of this formative event..." Nature, Vol.377, 26 10/95, p.682

it happens with suddenness not gradual with any preancestors present

I do not lean on traditional ideologies concerning Genesis. The Hebrew word for "Day" is not selective towards a 12 or 24 hour period of time. It can mean any era of time (the word is transliterated "TOWM"). So the Genesis story isn't about a literal seven day period, but about an expanse of time much broader than that.

I believe in the "Gap Theory of Genesis 1:1- 1:2". Anyone could google that theory, and it's opposing views on that kind of search.

The geologic column is man made and not true. God's creation is recorded in Genesis in the Bible.

No. No. No. Do not mention the geologic column - it confuses them because they say it can never be found in tact anywhere in the world!!! lol. Seriously - they do.

Facts are completely incompatible with Genesis.

How did the single-cells get there? How did the organisms get there? It just came out of no where huh? How amazing....something can be made from nothing now.

And this is supposed to be advanced knowledge?

Did you take the flood into account?

Gen 7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.

The smaller ones were weaker and died first after God cursed the Creation to suffer because of Adam's sin