Thanks nickcarraway.
Posted on 07/29/2021 3:13:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sponges are not covered under the Canadian Charter of Human Rights. They will have to be vaccinated and to produce the proper papers before crossing the border into New Brunswick.
The lowest fossil in the Flood plain.
Did anyone actually see or come across an image of the fossil itself? The thing is supposed to have been less than half an inch in size.
https://answersingenesis.org/creation-vs-evolution/evidence-for-young-earth-creation/
Are fossils still being formed today? Yes.
How long does it take for the plant/animal remains to become fully fossilized? Typically, about 10,000 years. But under perfect, lab-induced conditions, as little as several weeks!
What are the transitional states in between? A transitional state is still called a fossil... if it’s over 10,000 years old. There are many partially or even fully fossilized remains that are much, much younger.
If fossils are still being formed, are transitional forms being found in upper strata? There are many partially or even fully fossilized remains that are much, much younger than 10,000 years old.
If they are not being formed currently, why not? What has changed to cause fossilization to cease? As you can see, these questions don’t apply.
To be a bit clearer about “transitional stages.” You’re probably referring to bones which have become replaced by mineral deposits, a process called permineralization. (”Fossil” refers to any prehistoric remnant of life, including mere footprints or even slime trails.) And yes, there are plenty of partially permineralized bones.
Sponge or fossil?
Why not both? (I’d put the picture of the little Latina girl here, but she disappeared into the nation’s interior.)
For fossils to form, 2 things must happen - first, the organism has to be preserved in some kind of anaerobic environment (or else the regular bacterial decay processes destroy it), and then it must be protected from “earth movements” that happen over the course of its long life.
Most organisms now never make it beyond the first stage, since oxygen is everywhere and even sea-bottoms are constantly stirred up by various creatures. That wasn’t the case 500-300 million years ago, when “complex life” was starting out, so there’s actually a lot more really old fossils than “newer”.
Nonetheless, some organisms do get well-preserved; mud is a good example of an air-free environment that’s common everywhere. However, then many fossils are then ground up by the movements of the Earths’s crust. Fortunately for us, some fossils are surrounded by protective layers of hard rock and so can survive, like the outstanding Burgess Shale deposits in the Canadian Rockies.
Thanks nickcarraway.
Hi.
I see you are busy today.
“If this interpretation is correct,...”
Took the sponges that I got in Tarpon Springs and accidentally dropped them on my hike 10 years ago up there.
My bad.
5.56mm
It lived in a pineapple
Hey, if it weren’t for the sponges, the oceans would have overflowed long ago!
LOL!
5.56mm
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