For an argument against polystrate trees supporting a global flood, see
http://geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/talk_origins.html#polystrate
Actually, the drawing of the tree stump they show sitting on a 1-inch
coal seam is more likely a transported stump rather than one that grew
where it is preserved. If that tree, apparently about 18 inches in
diameter, had grown there, we would expect to see more than the
thread-sized rootlets that extend below the coal.
I have posted three articles rebutting: A CASE AGAINST PELAGOCHTHONY:
THE UNTENABILITY OF CARBONIFEROUS ARBORESCENT LYCOPOD-DOMINATED FLOATING
PEAT MATS, by Robert A. Gastaldo, Department of Geology, Auburn
University, Alabama 36849. These posts are located at:
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/199804/0389.html
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/199805/0030.html
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/199805/0119.html
These might be of some help. Let me know if you have questions or want
to discuss further.
Bill
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:45:43 -0600 "Wendee Holtcamp"
<wendee@greendzn.com> writes:
>Our church's pastor mentioned an argument for a global flood based on
>a book
>he'd read that mentioned that there are trees that slice through
>geologic
>strata, and he doesn't see how that could happen unless there was a
>global
>flood that laid down all the sediment all at once.
>
>I am not really familiar with the tree argument, and am wondering if
>someone
>can fill me in, or point me to some (web) resources including
>possible
>scientific explanations for why that would happen even without a
>global
>flood.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Wendee
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