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- From: bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver)
- Subject: Question for Young Earthers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.032118.22111@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:21:18 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
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- Okay, here it is:
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- According to the young earth theory, the planet has been around for
- anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 years (depending on your favorite flavor
- of the theory). Presumably, then, dinosaur bones and fossils are remnants
- of the pre-Flood world. Same for things like pterodactyls, mammoths,
- saber-tooth cats, etc.
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- We have dinosaur fossils; petrified dinosaur eggs, entire skeletons of
- petrified dinosaurs (and trees, for that matter). Yet there are no
- occurrences of petrified ancient mammals. No stone mammoth skeletons,
- no stone smilodons, nothing of the kind.
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- What we do have, although, is frozen wooly mammoths in Alaska and Siberia.
- And real bone / fur remnants from tar pits. There are, however, no frozen
- Triceratops, no frozen Apatosaurs, no frozen reptiles.
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- QUESTION: if these animals were all from the pre-flood era and alive at the
- same time, then one would expect to find petrified versions of both the
- reptiles and the mammals (since they were all destroyed by the Flood).
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- And, one would also expect to find frozen versions of both the reptiles and
- the mammals. What we have instead, though, appears to be an indication of
- extreme age (fossils), and a graduated scale of evolution (mammals).
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