Have you run the programs you can get off my web page? If you would take
the trouble you would see that mutation in the genome of the screen critters
can occur with little change in morphology for a while then one mutation
occurs which alters it dramatically. This is the nature of an interative,
reproductive system. Punctuated equilibrium is in the mathematics of
nonlinear dynamics.
>> Paleontologists give different names to the various forms. In a turbulent
>> flood, these small forms should be very thoroughly mixed up with no order to
>> them. Yet we find such an order.
>
>> Each of the above is found in the order I listed. Bolivina imporcata is
>> always above the Buliminella 1 and below the Lenticulina 1. Given a world
>> wide flood model you must postulate that these animals had to invariably
>> find the correct order to land in the sediments. INVARIABLY.
>
>Let's follow Art's challenge and put our creative minds to work to see
>if we can come up with an alternative explanation. Suppose all of the
>forms were present in the flood, and suppose each species bloomed
>successively in response to various environmental factors. Then we
>would get a worldwide succession of forams with no transitionals, which
>is what we see. Since this model explains the lack of transitionals *as
>well as* "the correct order to land in the sediments," then your model
>is trumped.
>
>I win one at last. :-)
I don't quite agree with your "trump". Due to the tiny size of the
particles and the length of time it takes for them to settle out (years in
some cases see Stokes law) you could not get the complete separation that
you require. Clay particles take up to 100 years to settle out of the water
some of these are of the size that it would take 5-10 years or so to settle
out. Some of each kind would be in suspension while the next group is blooming.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm