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

Subduction Zone

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whirlingmerc

Well-Known Member
There are plenty of Jurassic fossils. There is a lack of land based fossils, but those are always relatively rare. Why do you think that this is a problem?

There are many fossils from the beginning and end, there is a dearth in the middle 54 million years.
Perhaps the time scale claimed is just wrong.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
There are many fossils from the beginning and end, there is a dearth in the middle 54 million years.
Perhaps the time scale claimed is just wrong.
Find a valid source for this claim please. And the entire Jurassic is 54 million years. The mid-Jurassic would be a much shorter time period.
 

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
A more tropical world then a catastrophic flood followed by a short ice age

And yourself?

I didn't come into this thread with an opinion different than the prevailing theory. I'm trying to understand your theory. So can you explain your timeline in more detail? From what I can gather, there is a period of tens of millions of years that you're interested in. Can you map out what you think happened for those tens of millions of years? How long did the tropical world last? Was it different than the prevailing theories? Then presumably the catastrophic flood didn't last long. Then the short ice age. So I'm trying to understand how your theory accounts for all the time? thanks
 

GoodbyeDave

Well-Known Member
You can also look here for a summary:
Middle Jurassic - Wikipedia
One has to remember that fossilisation is rare. Most dead bodies are eaten or rot and only a tiny minority get preserved in exceptional circumstances. Some periods have more material than others but there is no gap anywhere in the fossil record and the varying amounts of fossils at different times will sometimes be just the luck of the draw.
 

Astrophile

Active Member
A global dearth of mid Jurassic fossils?

How long was the Jurassic supposed to be and if so why a global dearth in a 54 million year time period

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According to Middle Jurassic - Wikipedia , the Jurassic period lasted for 56 million years (201.3 to 145 million years); the Middle Jurassic lasted for 10.6 million years (174.1 to 163.5 million years). The British Regional Geology handbooks don't say anything about a dearth of Middle Jurassic fossils in England; on the contrary, they list a large number of fossil species in rocks of this age.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
It must be so cool to be a creationist.

They know more than any scientist on
earth, and did not even have to study!!
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
According to Middle Jurassic - Wikipedia , the Jurassic period lasted for 56 million years (201.3 to 145 million years); the Middle Jurassic lasted for 10.6 million years (174.1 to 163.5 million years). The British Regional Geology handbooks don't say anything about a dearth of Middle Jurassic fossils in England; on the contrary, they list a large number of fossil species in rocks of this age.

I found one article on the lack of fossils during that period. There is no lack of marine fossils, and marine fossils are the norm. Terrestrial fossils are always the oddity since it takes a rather special environment for their deposition. Look at where sediments are being deposited today. A good 99% of them would be in the seas and not on land. So one ten million year period with not very many, please note not none, land based fossils is not extraordinary. As a result any time that we do find such fossils it does tend to make the news, such as this story here:

Epic 150-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Have Been Found on The Isle of Skye

This is just another example of grasping at the slimmest straws by creationists. One would think that they would eventually realize that if their beliefs were at all true there would not be any need to grasp at straws.
 
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