It appears that scientists will not stop at anything to fabricate fossils older than 5,000 years old — the rough age established by the Bible according to some creationists. The scientists found the fossils in a quarry that date back to the Ordovician period. The range of the fossils is considerable from sponges and worms to nautiloids.
The quarry in Wales is well-known for fossils but this layer appears to have been missed. They were once part of an ocean that existed between Scotland and England/Wales. Now there is only a cultural ocean.
The find includes a new range of organism never previously found from this period.
Source: BBC
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“I think that Jesus used the Manna from heaven to soak up the excess water. … I was probably already kicked out of the class and standing in the hall when and if they discussed it!” (raf)
The reason they had you the hallway was because the explanation was water into wine and they knew you’d want to run your own experiment!
But Heather, didn’t you get the memo? Mt. Everest is no more than eight thousand years old. Says so right here. So, according to geologists, eight thousand years ago, it was pretty much the same as it is now, give or take a few feet.
According to geologists, the hillside where I am sitting to write this was once as high, maybe higher, than Mt. Everest. Of course, that was quite a while ago. I am trying to figure out where all that dirt and rocks went in just eight thousand years.
OS.
I think that Jesus used the Manna from heaven to soak up the excess water. The good Benedictine Nuns did not go into that issue. Of course, I was probably already kicked out of the class and standing in the hall when and if they discussed it!
One should always do research and a background study before spouting off. We know the age of fossils because we have a very good geological understanding of sedimentary layers. When a fossil is found in a layer known to be laid down in the Jurassic period, then it is safe to say the fossil found there came from that time and not the Cretaceous. Both carbon dating and geological strata dating are precise to within a few percentage points. We also understand the age and mass of the universe. WMAP and COBE research data and their findings confirmed quite precisely the findings of Dr. Hubble more than eighty years ago.
Just for the record, 450 million years ago, there was no Mt Everest, the Indian subcontinent had not yet banged into the midsection of Eurasia. So it would not take any extra water to cover it up. Also Bishop Ussher set the Creation at 4004 BC, or 6015 years ago – plenty of time to muddy up the record keeping of all those literate hominids. I know the Flood is not from Divine Agency because if He gets ready to kill us all, He will. In the mean time, we are doing ourselves in.
“What we do know, is that there’s a lot of disagreement and contradictory information regarding evolutionism and fossils, and such doesn’t see the light of day because it will poke holes in the sacred evolutionary theory.”
Actually it never sees the light of day because such alleged proof doesn’t exist. Also, radio-carbon dating is quite precise.
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OS,
Where’d the water go? Why either aliens or Jesus took it depending on who you ask. Or the stories of great floods from various cultures could come from localized megafloods like geological information indicates.
raff, you are welcome. But do you have an answer to the question? Where did all that water go? Don’t the nuns teach that in parochial school? I have been straining my noggin, but for the life of me cannot remember Sister Mary Agnes mentioning it.
OS,
Thank you for thinking of me! My head was beginning to spin!
I was just doodling on a piece of paper. If the Great Flood covered all the mountains, then it would have had to cover Mt. Everest, which is almost six miles (8,848 meters) tall. To do that, the water covering the earth would have had to add another six miles of depth to the oceans already covering about three quarters (Area: ~3.6×108 km2) of the earth. Earth is a globe just under eight thousand miles (12,260 Kilometers) in diameter. The math is not hard, but I will refrain from proofs because I wish no harm to come to rafflaw.
When the water receded and Noah made landfall, where did that extra six miles of water covering the earth go? Inquiring minds want to know.
Hmm… I thought they were 650 billion years old. No, wait. 2 trillion years old. Generally you wait a year or two, and the fossils get a couple of billion years older anyway.
“Scientists are really stupid & don’t know how to test correctly. Plus the great flood put ocean life on the top of Mount Everest so there.”
Some are stupid. Some of ’em, I think they got their degree out of a cereal box. Realistically, there isn’t any way to accurately date how old something is anyway. It’s all a best guess. The way we find fossils, it would suggest something like a great flood. Scientists also have problems with fossils that should be much older, found on top of strata that should be dated much younger. And vice versa. There’s even circular logic in textbooks regarding this – do the fossils date the strata, or does the strata date the fossils. It’s all a shell game. Nobody really knows. What we do know, is that there’s a lot of disagreement and contradictory information regarding evolutionism and fossils, and such doesn’t see the light of day because it will poke holes in the sacred evolutionary theory.
Eyes?
Who are you going to believe, Jesus, or your lying?
If you think those fossils are old, think about light arriving every day and night that is billions of years old.
Great line, Blouise.
As JT has pointed out, facts have a definite liberal bias.
Gene,
I was channeling
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Blouise,
Sit at the back of the ocean? lol
If I ever get the chance to steal that line, I’m going to do it. Simply brilliant. 😀
Those darn facts just keep getting in the way!
Having been forced to sit at the back of the ocean, these fossils have finally triumphed.
Depending on your brand of insanity there are a couple of popular explanations:
God is screwing with the scientists. Seems the hairy thunderer has quite a sense of humor and is big on practical jokes. He hides these things around the world to make fools of people who think they are smart.
Scientists are really stupid & don’t know how to test correctly. Plus the great flood put ocean life on the top of Mount Everest so there.