I suppose, if one starts from the premise that something, anything, can survive for MILLIONS of years. I think the reason people get sucked into this crap is because 'millions of years' is so beyond any real grasp, that it is immediately taken for granted - as it is beyond any real calculation.
'If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh*t'... and I smell bullshit.
My favorite part was the whole idea that the carcass laid out and was mummified before being subjected to silting in by highly mineralized water. That made me laugh, right out loud. Folks are so very divorced from their environment that they can't even see how very hilarious that is.
@Sanguine
@Suppressed
Not to be a pain, folks, but did the first amoeba ever die?
I think we need to stop and recognize that "
With God, all things are possible. " (MATT 19:26)
Science is our attempt to explain what is.
Often that attempt is inadequate due to perception, measurement, missing data, or plain lack of understanding. We do not understand some of the fundamental forces in nature, much less the details of creation.
A year of paleontology did convince me of a couple of things: there are a lot of hypothetical ancestral forms which allegedly predate fully developed and significantly different organisms ("missing links"), and when rocks are dated by their preserved fauna, there is an element of circular reasoning which can creep in.
Not only are faunal assemblages found in specific and different depositional environments which are possibly contemporaneous (as are the rocks they are preserved in), but apparent successions can result, when in fact, those are just different critters living in different niches at the same time and changing climate moves the areal boundaries of those niches (and those faunal assemblages) around. Thus in one spot, we can find apparent faunal successions in different rock layers and correlate those with the same rock type and fauna elsewhere, and have identified not necessarily an age as is so often accepted, but the preserved remains of critters which lived in a specific environment.
While stratigraphy is a good working framework for finding oil, coal, and other resources, and even establishing relative ages (and depositional/living environments), it may fall well short in telling all of the tale.
As a scientist, I know our interpretations are necessarily flawed. Our data has its peculiar problems, and our interpretation is open to being incorrect. That doesn't stop trying to sort it all out from being fun, and even useful, but as the great and golden truth, it falls short.
I will stick with the revealed Truth in Scripture.
