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To: Stultis
"No he isn't. Most of his examples are pollen, spores and such. Small, maybe, but not delicate, and ubiquitous as heck. VERY easily reworked (or contaminating sediments they weren't ever actually part of)."

Ah, there's that 'reworking' arugment that I mentioned to 'atlaw'. He seemed completely unaware of it.

Here is Woodmorappe responding to Morton.

http://www.trueorigin.org/ca_jw_02.asp

128 posted on 12/15/2006 4:26:40 PM PST by GourmetDan
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To: GourmetDan
"No he isn't. Most of his examples are pollen, spores and such. Small, maybe, but not delicate, and ubiquitous as heck. VERY easily reworked (or contaminating sediments they weren't ever actually part of)."

Ah, there's that 'reworking' arugment that I mentioned to 'atlaw'. He seemed completely unaware of it.

Here is Woodmorappe responding to Morton.

http://www.trueorigin.org/ca_jw_02.asp

Um, yeah. Whatever. You're aware that article has nothing, even indirectly, to do with fossil "reworking" aren't you? But then, very possibly you aren't. If you can't savvy the distinction between "spontaneous generation" and pre-biotic chemical evolution, then maybe the distinction between relative and absolute dating is equally mysterious.

The "Woodmorappe" article you link concerns absolute dating (dating in years, as by radiometric dating of rocks), whereas fossil reworking is an issue of relative dating (dating by position within the geologic column).

In any case Glenn Morton responded to it here:

http://home.entouch.net/dmd/woodrad.htm

BTW, "Woodmorappe" neglects to tell you something very interesting about Morton's original response to his own original paper: that it was published when Morton himself was still also a young earth creationist.

142 posted on 12/16/2006 10:47:13 AM PST by Stultis
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To: GourmetDan
Ah, there's that 'reworking' arugment that I mentioned to 'atlaw'. He seemed completely unaware of it.

Completely unaware of it? Hardly. It is readily apparent from your comments, however, that you haven't a clue about the concept. I was hoping that you would make at least a stab at giving your (apparently idiosyncratic) understanding of it, but you chose to dodge and huff instead. Perhaps you'd like to remedy that now.

ps -- it is ordinary courtesy to ping someone to a post in which they are referenced, especially when they are referenced with derision.

153 posted on 12/18/2006 11:13:16 AM PST by atlaw
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