Isan’t there an inexplicable lack of fossil remnants in the Grand Canyon?
“Isn’t there an inexplicable lack of fossil remnants in the Grand Canyon?”
You bring an interesting point into the mix. According to the national Park Service in Arizona, they ask you leave alone fossils that apparently date back as far as 525 million years.
The sedimentary rocks exposed throughout the canyon are rich with marine fossils such as crinoids, brachiopods, and sponges with several layers containing terrestrial fossils such as leaf and dragonfly wing impressions, and footprints of scorpions, centipedes, and reptiles.
Ancient fossils preserved in the rock layers range from algal mats and microfossils from Precambrian Time 1,200 million to 740 million years ago to a multitude of body and trace fossils from the Paleozoic Era 525-270 million years ago.
https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/fossils.htm
Just more confusion.
In an article by Washington University’s David Montgomery he tosses another thought into it.
Some rock formations millions of years old show no evidence of such large-scale water erosion. Montgomery is convinced any such flood must have been, at best, a regional event, perhaps a catastrophic deluge in Mesopotamia. There are, in fact, Mesopotamian stories with details very similar, but predating, the biblical story of Noah’s Flood.
“If your world is small enough, all floods are global,” he said.
These questions about water capacity versus destruction of plant and animal life are so differently equated by so many people, how can there be any real answer to them?
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