Posted on 11/06/2009 8:34:54 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Fossilization occurs rapidly when the conditions are right. The conditions necessary for lithification of soft tissue give clues to unlock the history of a fossil deposit. Experiments show that microbes are involved in the mineralization of soft tissue. By decaying flesh they affect the acidity of the environment and release ions necessary for its mineralization. Fossilization in apatite seems to require associated death and decay. In the Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation in England, apatite preserved the soft tissue of many squid-like animals, probably after a mass mortality event occurred in a zone of already high phosphate levels from decaying carcasses. Apatite has also preserved gelatinous embryonic cells that deteriorate in hours. The presence of these microscopic fossils in mud rock gives clues about the conditions in which the sediments were deposited and lithified. Broken shells and sand grains found in shale, which contain soft tissue fossilized in illite, have led some researchers to conclude that the creatures were buried quickly in pulses of a dense mud flow. Soft tissue fossilization points to unusual conditions, conditions that are what would be expected in the sudden, extensive destruction of life, as recorded in the Genesis account of the worldwide Flood...
(Excerpt) Read more at answersingenesis.org ...
Ping!
does anyone else read kent hovind? i know the tax evader but that guy is brilliant and has been saying this stuff for years
LOL!
Semi-technical? LOL LOL LOL
More spew from the creat (rhymes with teat) spam mill.
Again, why isn’t this in religion instead of news?
>> Semi-technical? LOL LOL LOL
More spew from the creat (rhymes with teat) spam mill.
Again, why isn’t this in religion instead of news? <<
Seconded.
“So you are saying that the scientific method is not based on beliefs or assumptions?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379629/replies?c=16
Someone who doesn’t even know the most basic tenants of the scientific method is denigrating science?
UNBELIEVABLE!
He a Leftist plant!
That’s like someone who has never even read John 3:16 denigrating Christianity.
“So you are saying that the scientific method is not based on beliefs or assumptions?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379629/replies?c=16
Someone who doesn’t even know the most basic tenants of the scientific method is denigrating science?
UNBELIEVABLE!
He’s a Leftist plant!
That’s like someone who has never even read John 3:16 denigrating Christianity.
Turns out AIG is just as funny on an iPhone as on a regular computer.
i know the tax evader but that guy is brilliant
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a tax evader who is serving a 10 year sentence falls a bit short of brilliance in my estimation.
What effect, if any, does the authors flawed description of the lithification and fossilization processes have on the credibility of his conclusions?
What you did not know there are two different floods described in Genesis? Ever read Genesis 1:2, that was way before any flesh humans were ever created. Or Jeremiah 4:22-27 and IIPeter 3:6 are not talking about Noah’s flood.
What you did not know there are two different floods described in Genesis? Ever read Genesis 1:2, that was way before any flesh humans were ever created. Or Jeremiah 4:22-27 and IIPeter 3:6 are not talking about Noah’s flood.
Someone who doesn’t even know the most basic tenets of the English language is denigrating another poster?
UNBELIEVABLE!
I’m starting to think that it is YOU who are a Leftist plant, which is only heightened by your abject ignorance of the ASSUMPTIONS that science is based on. But now we know your ignorance is willful, as is so often the case with leftist evo-atheists, as I have explained and linked these assumptions for you multiple times now.
ONCE AGAIN, here is but a partial list of the assumptions that science is based on. Be sure to share it with your pals over at DU:
http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/basic_assumptions
You know nothing about me, yet you are assuming I am an evolutionist.
You again base your assumptions on ignorance.
But returning to more worthwhile subjects, in following the article's references, #24, I came across this interesting link that describes different kinds of chemical reactions according to the organ being fossilized:
“SOFT-TISSUE PRESERVATION IN MIOCENE FROGS FROM LIBROS, SPAIN: INSIGHTS INTO THE GENESIS OF DECAY MICROENVIRONMENTS
MARIA E. MCNAMARA*,1, PATRICK J. ORR1, STUART L. KEARNS2, LUIS ALCALÁ3, PERE ANADÓN4 and ENRIQUE PEÑALVER MOLLÁ5
1 UCD School of Geological Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
2 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, U.K.
3 Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis, Avda. Sagunto s/n, E-44002 Teruel, Aragón, Spain
4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institut de Ciències de la Terra “Jaume Almera,” Lluís Solé i Sabarís s/n E-08028, Barcelona, Spain
5 Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, C/ Ríos Rosas, 23, E-28003, Madrid, Spain maria.mcnamara1@ucd.ie
The Late Miocene Libros biota is a lacustrine-hosted, Konservat-Lagerstätte from Libros, near Teruel in northeast Spain. Adult frogs are characterized by the preservation of their soft tissues, some in histological detail. The soft tissues of the body outline are preserved as a layered structure, which comprises a central carbonaceous bacterial biofilm enveloped by the phosphatized remains of the mid-dermal Eberth-Katschenko layer, external to which is a second, thinner, carbonaceous bacterial biofilm. Bacterial autolithification is restricted to limited phosphatization of the cell margins of bacteria adjacent to phosphatized dermis. Phosphatization occurred during the late stages of decay; phosphate was sourced primarily from the dermis itself. Other tissues and organs are also defined in authigenic minerals: nervous tissue (aragonite), the stomach (calcium phosphate), and collagen fibers of the dermal stratum compactum (calcium sulphate); bone marrow is organically preserved. The disparate modes of soft-tissue preservation within individual specimens reflects development of several highly localized, chemically distinct microenvironments within the frog carcasses during decay. These microenvironments correspond to individual organs and tissues, were established at different times during decay, and varied in their duration. The preservation of soft tissues via multiple taphonomic pathways was controlled ultimately by anatomical and physiological factors.”
Note the second sentence, some preservation at the microscopic level. Decay and preservation appear to parts of the same process.
You were the one who led-off by attacking me as a Lefty plant remember? The fact that your confused thinking is ALL OVER THE MAP is further evidence that you are in fact guilty of what you are accusing me of. Be sure to laugh and point at your fellow evo-losers over at DU for me.
So that’s why my cat didn’t turn into a fossil after being hit by a car.
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