Friday, March 18, 2011

Deep Time? or simply Deep?

We have a very deep topic today, so put on some deep music and put on your deepest, most profound look. Allow me to speculate.

Quotes and comments;

1. 'Well-preserved fossils of seaweed-like colonies have been reported from China. They are dated by the scientists at 600 million years old, from the Ediacaran period. Can these be missing links, lighting the fuse of biodiversity that culminated in the Cambrian explosion? [1.]

- The similarity of the fossil record to what we see today is (to me at least) striking. If you took a slice of the planet today, from the top of Mt. Whistler to the bottom of the Pacific ocean, and turned it to stone, you'd see something very much like the fossil record. e.g. at the very bottom would be bacteria, archaea, prokaryotes, worm like marine creatures, etc. [3.]

Though I'm far from being any kind of expert, I think it's possible that there is a very different explanation of the fossil record than the one we get in the government financed textbooks used in 'public' (i.e. socialist) schools. I don't believe we're looking at progressive 'transformationism' at all... at least I doubt we are.

I think the fossil record is a 'snapshot' (in stone) of the world that existed at the time of Noah's flood... and the bottom fossils we find today were simply the creatures that lived in the deepest levels of the earth. (This would mean that the deepest ocean levels were deposited in rock layers upon the earth first, with other areas laid down later.)

Notes;
1. New Ediacaran Fossils: Do They Ignite the Cambrian Explosion? Creation/Evolution Headlines 02/17/2011
2. 'PhysOrg summarized the findings published in Nature. “In addition to perhaps ancient versions of algae and worms, the Lantian biota – named for its location – included macrofossils with complex and puzzling structures,” the article said. “In all, scientists identified about 15 different species at the site.” Pictures of the seaweed-like fossils show fronds with a distinctive holdfast, like modern seaweed use to cling to the seafloor.
2. Of course I could be wrong.... yes; I know it's not likely, but I suppose it's possible. (After all, if a great thinker like Richard Dawkins can be wrong, I guess a simple person like myself can be wrong too :=]
- Dawkins has been wrong so many times it's beyond counting. (e.g. his many fallacious statements over the years on the bad engineering of the human eye)
3. Scientists Document Bustling Community Far Below Ocean Floor - NY Times
'The lost civilization of Atlantis may just be legend, but way down below the ocean (to quote the folksinger Donovan) there are some things that are very real — namely, bacteria and archaea. By some estimates, sub-seafloor prokaryotes may account for two-thirds of the biomass of these types of organisms on Earth.'