Posted on 04/08/2014 8:28:14 AM PDT by fishtank
Yep!
Piece of cake.
Next thing you know, it shouldn’t be a problem to have a pro-life Christian speak about the sin of abortion to the DNC National Convention.
Slam dunk! Nuthin’ but net.
\sarc
As you can imagine from my sarcastic post below, there are two reasons for sparse ICR research: money and peer pressure.
Having said that, here is a link to a paper that Dr. Austin wrote a few years ago:
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_45610.htm
Abstract below:
Paper No. 187-4
Presentation Time: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
REGIONALLY EXTENSIVE MASS KILL OF LARGE ORTHOCONE NAUTILOIDS, REDWALL LIMESTONE (LOWER MISSISSIPPIAN), GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA
AUSTIN, Steven A., Geology Department, Institute for Creation Rsch, Santee, CA 92071-2833, saustin@icr.edu and WISE, Kurt P., Bryan College, Box 7585, Dayton, TN 37321-7000
Billions of large fossil orthocone nautiloids occur within a single lime packstone bed of the Redwall Limestone through the Grand Canyon region, northern Arizona and southern Nevada. The uppermost 2-m-thick packstone bed of the Whitmore Wash Member of the Redwall Limestone (Osagean Series of the Mississippian System) contains a coplanar horizon averaging 1 nautiloid fossil per m2. The bed with abundant nautiloids extends westward 290 km from Marble Canyon on the Colorado River to Frenchman Mountain near Las Vegas. The platform facies of the bed with abundant nautiloids originally occupied an area of at least 1.5 x 104 km2. Nautiloids resemble the genus Rayonnoceras, but the siphuncle differs from any described in the literature.
Mean length of nautiloids is 0.8 m with log-normal size distribution indicating mass kill of an entire population. Implosion structures and collapse of the body cavity argue that bodies were within the shells at the time of burial. Orientations of nautiloids indicate they were swept up in a westward or southwestward sediment flow. About 15% of nautiloids are vertical within the bed. The packstone bed has inverse grading and abundant fluid-escape pipes indicating strongly fluidized condition and deposition by abrupt freezing from a hyperconcentrated sediment gravity flow. The enormous hyperconcentrated flow hydroplaned westward at a velocity of over 5 m/sec through a shallow, carbonate platform environment, sweeping up, smothering and depositing an entire seafloor population of nautiloids.
Discovery of the extent of the packstone bed, inventory of nautiloid fossils, and interpretation of depositional process were made possible within Grand Canyon National Park by special use permits allowing motorized raft operations with geologists on the Colorado River. Float boulders with nautiloids directed our attention to the source bed within the Redwall cliff. Because of the Antiquities Act, we chose to collect nautiloids for research from outside the national park. Our investigations provide an interesting example of how paleontological discoveries can be made in remote areas of national parks.
2002 Denver Annual Meeting (October 27-30, 2002)
Session No. 187
Paleontology/Paleobotany (Posters) II
Colorado Convention Center: Exhibit Hall
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, October 30, 2002
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Here is another:
They actually gathered samples, had them analyzed in an blind-study fashion in an independent lab, and wrote the results and conclusions.
Depiction drawing of a nautiloid.
Well as the purpose of writing the papers int he first place is to have them read and analyzed and correlated with each other for various purposes, I’d call that work. In fact, I’d call that a crucial part of science. You might criticize flaws in their analysis, fine, but how can you criticize scientific analysis itself, per se?
“1) convergence (the sudden and simultaneous appearance of a gene with no evolutionary patterns in different taxa), 2) lineage-specific expansions (different myosin gene complements found in different creatures)”
These two situations are the patterns that would be expected to be found repeatedly and at multiple stages of the development of the earth biosphere and its component lifeforms, and in fact are predicted by Intelligent Design of the type in which our biosphere was slowly constructed by a social hive of an advanced off-world species as they accumulated life-building knowledge, beginning with the virus and eventually advancing to we Nexus 7’s, said discovery and design process being completely analogous as to how the hive of we Nexus 7’s have gone about constructing our infrastructure and inventions, with the development of digital electronics initially arising from vacuum tubes and culminating in today’s integrated chips being a most instructive example.
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