From: bpayne15@juno.com
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 22:19:54 EST
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:51:17 -0600 "Glenn Morton"
<glennmorton@entouch.net> writes:
> There is not enough limestone in the entire ocean at any one time to
use a
> marine bloom to create the chalk deposits which run from Mexico, to the
East
> Coast, and start again in England and run across Europe and are found
in
> Israel, and many other places in the world.
Limestone and chalk are both basically CaCO3. Why do you say there must
be limestone in the ocean to create chalk? Did you mean to say "calcium"
instead of "limestone"? If so, that's an interesting limiting factor and
a source of Ca would need to be postulated to support the raw material to
fuel the bloom.
> David also got this one correct. I have argued that the vegetable mat
> theory is false because the mats should float all over the world and
drop
> their coally matter forming coal beds both in the deep water and in the
> shallow water. But, we don't find coal beds and seams in the deep
ocean
> basins,
Here I must point out to you again :-( that you are ignoring empirical
data so you can maintain your imaginary model. On your web site you rail
against the YECs for not attempting to explain the multiple lines of
evidence you present supporting an old earth. I agree with you that this
data must be explained for YEC to be ultimately viable. I disagree
though with your skirting the coal data I have presented. I really don't
care if you engage the data, but it would be nice to hear you say that
you can't explain the data within the OEC swamp model.
As to your objection that the lack of deep-ocean coal negates the
floating mat model for the origin of coal, I had said before that a
floating mat of peat would be pulverized by wave action and finely
disseminated over the ocean floor. And we do in fact find fine coal
particles spread over the ocean floor. Therefore, the floating mat model
survives your objection. Try again?
Bill
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