What do you do with missing evidence? Like the global dirth of mid Jurassic fossils

sooda · Jun 15, 2019

Astrophile said:
The White Cliffs of Dover are Cretaceous, not Jurassic.

Jurassic Period Facts: Dinosaurs, Mammals, Plants
www.livescience.com/28739-jurassic-period.html
The Jurassic Period was the second segment of the Mesozoic Era. It occurred from 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago, following the Triassic Period and preceding the Cretaceous Period.
Jurassic Period - Image Results

Astrophile · Jun 15, 2019

sooda said:
Jurassic Period Facts: Dinosaurs, Mammals, Plants
www.livescience.com/28739-jurassic-period.html
The Jurassic Period was the second segment of the Mesozoic Era. It occurred from 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago, following the Triassic Period and preceding the Cretaceous Period.

Jurassic Period - Image Results

Your links do not say that the white cliffs of Dover are Jurassic. The cliffs consist of chalk, and The Penguin Dictionary of Geology defines Chalk as 'Strictly, the very fine-grained pure-white limestone found in the Upper Cretaceous of Western Europe.' The British Regional Geology handbook for The Wealden District describes the Chalk under the Cretaceous System in Chapter 4. 'Strata Exposed at the Surface - Mesozoic Systems'; on page 43 it says, 'Good sections in the Middle Chalk are to be seen in the Dover cliffs'.

According to Cretaceous - Wikipedia , 'In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the White Cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.'

sooda · Jun 15, 2019

Astrophile said:
Your links do not say that the white cliffs of Dover are Jurassic. The cliffs consist of chalk, and The Penguin Dictionary of Geology defines Chalk as 'Strictly, the very fine-grained pure-white limestone found in the Upper Cretaceous of Western Europe.' The British Regional Geology handbook for The Wealden District describes the Chalk under the Cretaceous System in Chapter 4. 'Strata Exposed at the Surface - Mesozoic Systems'; on page 43 it says, 'Good sections in the Middle Chalk are to be seen in the Dover cliffs'.

According to Cretaceous - Wikipedia , 'In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the White Cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.'

DISCOVERING FOSSILS | What is chalk and how does it form?
www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/chalk_formation_fossils.htm
Chalk is composed of planktonic skeletons and is therefore made of micro-fossils. In fact, the coccolithophores that comprise chalk are small even by planktonic standards and are therefore termed nanno-fossils. Chalk is an excellent material for fossil collecting and palaeontological studies.

sooda · Jun 15, 2019

Cretaceous Period, in geologic time, the last of the three periods of the Mesozoic Era.

The Cretaceous began 145.0 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago; it followed the Jurassic Period and was succeeded by the Paleogene Period (the first of the two periods into which the Tertiary Period was divided).
Cretaceous Period | geochronology | Britannica.com
www.britannica.com/science/Cretaceous-Period

Audie · Jun 15, 2019

sooda said:
Cretaceous Period, in geologic time, the last of the three periods of the Mesozoic Era.

The Cretaceous began 145.0 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago; it followed the Jurassic Period and was succeeded by the Paleogene Period (the first of the two periods into which the Tertiary Period was divided).
Cretaceous Period | geochronology | Britannica.com
www.britannica.com/science/Cretaceous-Period

We do all know how to google, cut, 'n paste.

Kangaroo Feathers · Jun 16, 2019

So there's a tyrannosaur with a shark. Where are the tyrannosaurs with elephants or humans?

Subduction Zone · Jun 16, 2019

Kangaroo Feathers said:
So there's a tyrannosaur with a shark. Where are the tyrannosaurs with elephants or humans?

Did you mean to post this in this thread? The shark and T-Rex fossils is another thread. Nicely answered by the first person to respond.

ecco · Jun 17, 2019

tas8831 said:
*oh, for the wickedness of computers - had that and hundreds of other YEC gems archived, only to lose them all during a syncing operation gone wrong....

Ha. In your materialistic mind you choose to believe it was "a syncing operation gone wrong".

Open Your Eyes! It was clearly an act of GOD to prevent you from further ridiculing HIS faithful.

sooda · Jun 17, 2019

Dearth is NOT spelled "dirth".

tas8831 · Jun 17, 2019

whirlingmerc said:
I admit being wrong quite frequently
However in this case there is a documented global dearth of evidence in the mid Jurassic of fossils
despite the great claimed length of time and agreed on by many non creationists

Waiting to hear why you think that matters.

Audie · Jun 17, 2019

sooda said:
Dearth is NOT spelled "dirth".

I have a retraction to make. We do NOT all know
how to google.

columbus · Jun 17, 2019

whirlingmerc said:
I admit being wrong quite frequently
However in this case there is a documented global dearth of evidence in the mid Jurassic of fossils
despite the great claimed length of time and agreed on by many non creationists

So, what do you do about the lack of evidence concerning the Bible?
From the lack of evidence for anything resembling Noah's Flood to the lack of evidence for the Gospels?

According to the NT, the afternoon before Passover( ~30AD) was marked by an eclipse and a strong earthquake. Such portents, on such a day, should have left records. Even people who hadn't heard of Jesus must have experienced these things. Why is there no record, from anybody, of this portentous day outside of some Gospel accounts? And not even all of those?

It's Christians and Creationists who have a dearth of evidence to explain.
Tom

Audie · Jun 17, 2019

columbus said:
So, what do you do about the lack of evidence concerning the Bible?
From the lack of evidence for anything resembling Noah's Food to the lack of evidence for the Gospels?

According to the NT, the afternoon before Passover( ~30AD) was marked by an eclipse and a strong earthquake. Such portents, on such a day, should have left records. Even people who hadn't heard of Jesus must have experienced these things. Why is there no record, from anybody, of this portentous day outside of some Gospel accounts? And not even all of those?

It's Christians and Creationists who have a dearth of evidence to explain.
Tom

Now now, them bible-archaeologists have definitely
confirmed a lotta bible-stuff. Dead Sea; even Egypt.
And locusts.

sooda · Jun 17, 2019

columbus said:
So, what do you do about the lack of evidence concerning the Bible?
From the lack of evidence for anything resembling Noah's Flood to the lack of evidence for the Gospels?

According to the NT, the afternoon before Passover( ~30AD) was marked by an eclipse and a strong earthquake. Such portents, on such a day, should have left records. Even people who hadn't heard of Jesus must have experienced these things. Why is there no record, from anybody, of this portentous day outside of some Gospel accounts? And not even all of those?

It's Christians and Creationists who have a dearth of evidence to explain.
Tom

While I believe in God and Jesus I am not impressed with the Bible at all. The stories are usually idiotic.. Don't you wonder about their motive or agenda?

columbus · Jun 17, 2019

sooda said:
While I believe in God and Jesus I am not impressed with the Bible at all. The stories are usually idiotic.. Don't you wonder about their motive or agenda?

No, not really.
I just think that they were primitive people doing the best they could with what they had.
It wasn't much.
Tom

Audie · Jun 17, 2019

sooda said:
While I believe in God and Jesus I am not impressed with the Bible at all. The stories are usually idiotic.. Don't you wonder about their motive or agenda?

See post 261 in bible and critical thinking.

tas8831 · Jun 18, 2019

columbus said:
So, what do you do about the lack of evidence concerning the Bible?

Appears that he thinks enough of it to start additional threads to distract from the humiliation in this one...

ecco · Jun 18, 2019

sooda said:
While I believe in God and Jesus I am not impressed with the Bible at all. The stories are usually idiotic.. Don't you wonder about their motive or agenda?

If the stories in the unimpressive Bible are idiotic and the people who wrote them probably had an agenda, why do you believe in God and Jesus?

sooda · Jun 18, 2019

ecco said:
If the stories in the unimpressive Bible are idiotic and the people who wrote them probably had an agenda, why do you believe in God and Jesus?

Because if you strip away the lies and legends and political agendas, there is something.

columbus · Jun 18, 2019

sooda said:
Because if you strip away the lies and legends and political agendas, there is something.

I think that's true.

I think that one of the critical meta-messages of Jesus is "Don't believe the nonsense that religious authorities want you to believe. It doesn't matter if scriptures claim that God said something. Do what you know is Right."

But then, a Roman Emperor took control of Christianity and now we have what we have.
Tom

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