Yellowstone & Catastrophe (General)

by Balance_Maintained @, U.S.A., Monday, December 22, 2014, 18:11 (3385 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: On the subject of Yellowstone, with trees from Asia, there are many similar anomalies, such as fish fossils being found on the tops of mountains, and as I'm sure you know, one theory that explains them is catastrophism, 
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>David: I know you love Catastrophism but fish fossils on mountain tops are easily explained as mountains rising up from sea bottoms. The theory of continental drift says pressure between plates pushes up the mountain range. Since the 1960's this is first year geology 101.-And likewise just as easily by a flood. Though, consider this. Fossils likely would not have formed on mountain tops during the upheaval of a mountain precisely because it WAS an UPheaval. Fossilization requires that sediments be deposited (typically rapidly) on TOP of a dying animal in order for it to be fossilized. If mountain ranges were violently thrusting upwars, water would have been flowing equally as violently downwards, taking all of the remains and sediments with them. However, the biblical flood describes a gradual drainage of the water over a long period of time, after a massive aquatic upheaval. The turbulent waters would have deposited organism against snags and outcrops and them piled sediment in behind them during the flood itself, with subsequent deposits being layered on top during the slow drainage, much like dirt left behind in a bathtub.

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