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To: CottShop
Actually- yeah they would have died- this wasn’t just a nice little trickle event- the pressures and sediments were massive- some might have survived but it’s almost a certainty some would have died and been buried alive as we have fossils of fish in the act of giving birth that were fossilized.

Curiously, of the ones that died, it seems that in nearly every case, of the fish that were killed, all the fish of that species were killed, and we find very few fossils of species of fish that still survive today.

27 posted on 03/17/2009 9:20:56 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
Curiously, of the ones that died, it seems that in nearly every case, of the fish that were killed, all the fish of that species were killed, and we find very few fossils of species of fish that still survive today.

Do you have any documentation on that? I have the opposite impression. And there is a bias against assigning fossils to currently living species since it emphasizes the lack of change observed in many cases. Instead I've noticed that paleontologists say a given fossil is "very similar" to a modern species. Yet they refuse to just assign it to the same species and be done with it.

If evolution were true than only a tiny percentage of fossils found should be of current species, yet the numbers I've seen in general are that there is a very high degree of overlap between living species and the fossil record, and that most differences between fossils and living species are very minor. Certainly it fits better with a polyphyletic model on a young earth than old-earth models.

44 posted on 03/17/2009 9:46:07 AM PDT by Liberty1970 (Democrats are not in control. God is. And Thank God for that!)
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