Posted on 09/22/2015 11:17:09 AM PDT by george76
Construction workers in California's Santa Cruz mountains were subject to a surprise delay last week when a team of archaeologists took over the site to remove an ancient whale fossil.
The project site was expected to have a high potential for archaeological finds, so a monitor was assigned to the Scotts Valley development and found the fossil amid construction vehicles on Sept. 4.
This project site is not the only one in California with fossils
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Since the 19th century, paleontologists have been studying the “Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed” near Bakersfield, California, where fossils and bones of ancient whales, seals, dolphins, sharks, and fish have been uncovered.
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At 25 feet long, the archaeologists assigned to the project believe the remains belong to a mysticete whale, an ancient ancestor of the baleen whale.
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I would say NOAH’s flood.
Um...because land masses were once under the oceans? A whale died and sunk to the bottom sediment that later became a mountain?
What am I missing here?
Gee do you suppose that the waterline was actually HIGHER than it is today?
Oceans receded due to global warming.
Don’t they spawn by jumping up waterfalls?
SUVs obviously.
SUVs obviously.
Well, the obvious answer is of course Noah’s flood which was the second recorded time the earth was completely covered with water.
The first recorded time the earth was covered with water is Genesis 1:2 prior to the record of creation (which I believe was actually a re-creation). I think there were created beings prior to Genesis 1:2, like dinosaurs and whatever else, which got tanked in the first recorded flood of Genesis 1:2.
The Biblical flood account, which is also mentioned in many ancient literatures like the Epic of Gilgamesh
They say the fossils are 16 million years old. I guess that would be enough time for the land to uplift up into the mountains.
But in earth time that does seem awfully fast.
In the beginning
Plate Tectonics?
Mountains are pushed up?
Continents move?
Where’s the rock debris at the bottom of Mountains from the uplift?
Or, were they put there by God to confuse us.
I hate when he does that.
Question: If it was Noah’s flood where did all of that extra water come from and where did it all go?
I can't find a scientific source claiming a known or theorized sea level change in excess of 15m during the past x "hundreds of thousands" of years.
Draw your own conclusions. I have.
The Appalachians were raised up UNDER the flood waters and were eroded by the receding waters.
The Rockies must have, on the other hand, been pushed up after the waters receded.
Agreed. This is probably PRE-Noah’s flood though. I’m sure there were countless floods before the BIG one.
Because the seas have risen and fallen many times in geological time frames.
North American Paleogeographic Maps
https://www2.nau.edu/rcb7/nam.html
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