SFT: On Genetic Entropy

[RonSewell (RonS)]

@PDPrice

Do you believe that our inability to know for sure why each kind of animal happened to be buried at the point they did get buried, 4500 years after the fact and with extremely limited knowledge of the antediluvian world, somehow proves the Flood didn’t happen?

No. It is overwhelming evidence that most of the life on earth did not share the planet at the same time.

Stratification of the Fossil Record and the YEC Flood

The fossil record is stratified, that does not seem to be disputed by YEC. The identifiable geological eras from the Cambrian forward are identifiable by geological characteristics but also by their fossil inclusions. The fossil record displays a general progression from more primitive organisms, extinction boundaries, and sorting of creatures into their associated epochs. This is precisely what would be expected given life evolving over a span of hundreds of millions of years. Given that YEC holds that all the animals that ever breathed coexisted together before the deluge, this presents a challenge - if they lived together why did they not die together? The entire geologic column constituting most of the fossil bearing sedimentary rock found on the planet, would have been laid down roughly over the course of a year. Flood proponents advance three scenarios, not necessarily mutually exclusive, to explain the segregation of the fossil record. The first runs something along the l…