To: Ed Babinski, Dave Matson
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Subject: Very interesting footnote on Young Earth and more why impossible
Very interesting note!
Extant organisms in their structure and distribution, reflect the composition of their environments. We assume extinct organisms also adapted to their environment in the same way. If this assumption is true, then it is possible to determine seasonal variations using growth rings from petrified wood, including paleo-environmental availability of water and temperature changes. Fossilized wood which reflects lack of growth rings, indicate a continuous supply of water and uniform temperature, just as thickened cuticles and sunken stomata of fossilized leaves indicate a lack of water, while roots and spongy stem tissue suggest a swampy or aquatic paleo-environment. With such information extracted from morphology and anatomy of fossil plants, provides in part, the basis for paleoecology and paleoclimatology. Further studies are taken into consideration, such as those on sedimentary materials which naturally occur with the fossils and, how the fossil became preserved, all play into better understanding the paleoenvironment. Specialists caution however, conclusions should never be based entirely upon extant organisms and how they interact with present environments. What we observe occuring today, is not necessarily the key to the past. (Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants, Stewart and Rothwell, 1993; DiMichele & Wing, 1987.)
Paleofloristics, which specializes in assemblages of fossil plants, provides insight into Earth's restricted and widescale climate. On the worldwide scale, such studies have provided scientists with insight into plate tectonics and continental drift. These studies can also provide further insight into plant distribution, population, migration and significant changes in early environments. Studies on succession of plants in the geological column have became popular among paleoecologists, and also useful in studies of extant organisms.
From Major Geological Eons, Eras, Periods and Epochs, and How Fossils Are Used
In other words, I take it after reading on how some previously vegetation rich environments became deserts and etc, a young earth is impossible... unless drastic changes to the environment occurred quickly in some places, overnight. What a chaotic earth! We should be in for another ice age, in about... now
I mean, if wow, if Genesis and the Geological record are both true and another Ice Age hits in the next few days, -- or worse, turned to desert wasteland overnight, it's going to amount to a disaster to about 95% or more of the warm-water and warm climate [dependant] species, at least that's true around here in Southeastern U.S. Can't see how all those local fish are going to adjust to the extreme climate change.... all the local plants depending on warm weather (or if it turns desert wasteland... lack of water will spell complete and utter destruction for most species) what will we all eat? Some of the species out in our coastal waters will die, go extinct if there's just a few degrees change from the norm. big mass extinction coming, prophesied by Genesis and Geology! Imagine how busy God's going to be, "re-creating" all those species to fill in those newly emptied niches, for the umpteenth time (about five of 'em) in the past 6,000 years!
I know, I'm being silly, only because how *ridiculously silly Young Earthism is.
* Not an insult on the faithful, church-going, reverent, credulous believer, who knows no better for lack of a formal education, but rather, a bald-faced insult on the teachers [like "Dr." Kent Hovind and Jonathan Sarfati, "PhD" in chemistry, yet claims qualification to write on matters related to biology(?)] who should, and in all honesty, do know better.
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