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To: dirtboy; Edward Watson
I humbly ask any Young Earth Creationist to show me the fossil remains of any human in the same rock stratum as a dinosaur.

Considering the numbers, that would be quite a find, wouldn't it?

Why, out of all the billions of fossils and millions of species that have been cataloged to date, do you want to restrict attention to a tiny sliver of a sub phylum that amounts to perhaps only .01% of all fossils? Complex invertebrates, usually complete specimens, comprise the vast majority of fossils, roughly 95%. The remaining 5% consists mainly of plants and algae, %4.75; insects, 0.24%; vertebrates, mostly fish; .0125%. Of this minuscule sliver an even tinier sliver is left for the land-dwelling vertebrates, most of which are represented by a bone or less. Divide the minuscule sliver of land dwelling vertebrates even more to reduce the class to primates.

Not an easy task to find something like that.

Why do you restrict the sample so severely to prove your point? With the numbers 99.99% in your favor, shouldn't it be easier by many orders of magnitude to produce any fossil remains, say for example, of a transitional leading up to the complex invertebrates, and between invertebrates and vertebrates? Those must have been huge events in earth's history. Surely you can show some fossil remains that clearly demonstrate those transitions?

Cordially,

120 posted on 08/01/2008 6:47:14 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Diamond; Dog Gone
Why do you restrict the sample so severely to prove your point?

First of all, I didn't make the statement, Dog Gone did. And second, the claim of this fossil is that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. So it is a reasonable request to show where human fossils and dinosaur fossils have been found in the same strata - and they don't even have to be in the same vicinity - say, dinosaur fossils in a Late Cretaceous formation in Montana and human fossils in a Late Cretaceous formation in Asia.

121 posted on 08/01/2008 6:54:08 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Diamond
There are literally thousands of transistional fossils. Every time another one is found, creationists say, "Well, that opens up another gap or two in the fossil record. Where are the transistional fossils before and after that one?"

It's impossible to convince someone who has decided, as a matter of faith, to believe a certain conclusion.

Until you can demonstrate that radiometric dating of sedimentary deposits is inaccurate, then you should accept it. If there has never been a single confirmed case of dinosaurs co-existing with modern animals, much less humans, and buried in the same age rock, then a reasonable conclusion would be that they didn't exist at the same time.

The fact is that no hominid fossils have ever been found in the layers containing the dinosaurs, or in older rocks either. And you don't find dinosaurs in the rock layers of the Devonian Age, either. They hadn't appeared yet.

And why don't you find the older fossils, like the trilobite in younger rocks?

The fossil record is clear and unchallenged, except by hoaxsters.

123 posted on 08/01/2008 7:23:02 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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