Allen:
No, I don't think so. That was my point in the above. If
everything was initially alive at once, there is nothing to separate them,
no matter how many flood events are postulated. Unless you also postulate
an ad hoc miracle just to separate the species.
The standard Flood geology explanations of the separation of species
talk about how the smaller animals got left behind at the bottom, and the
faster and larger animals climbed higher to escape the flood. This kind of
description I consider to be pre-scientific. When you can look through a
microscope, this explanation fails. I defer to the expert knowledge of
palynologists and petrologists such as John McKinnis and Glenn Morton on
the conclusions of this test. They are pretty clear. There may have been
a flood, or many floods, but they do not constitute all of earth history.
Paul Arveson, Code 724, Signatures Directorate, NSWC
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