Where? In a few lucky incidents, right?
Where an animal walks in soft sediment that hardens and then is covered again in different sediment.
You didn't factor in the "fountains of the deep".
Wouldn't add one millionth of the cooling and lubrication of the oceans. But even the oceans couldn't absorb all that heat without boiling. Physics is what it is. It's not just Newton; it's the law.
Fun fact, the grand canyon is smooth.
Doesn't look smooth to me...
If millions years were real, it should be raggedy rough
And it is.
Due to erosion. The reason it's deep is that the land is being uplifted, trapping the river in its channel. Old rivers usually meander, cutting new channels constantly because of differential erosion at bends. Uplift makes the river cut deeper and deeper, though millions of years of old sediment.
Barbarian said:
Creationist say:
"The flood explains most of the fossils."
Knowledgeable YE creationists admit that it doesn't.
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j09_2/j09_2_216-222.pdf
Given that it takes rapid burial to preserve intact, workable fossils, yes.
So either there have been lots of floods in the world, or there was just one big one. And you know what the evidence shows.
I’m not fully familiar with Dr. Wise’s approach to this, but it appears to me that he simply asserts that there is not enough data out there on this topic to give a scientific evaluation of those who claim there are legitimate transitional forms.
Well, let's see what Dr.Wise actually says...
Evidences forDarwin’s second expectation — of stratomorphic intermediate species —include such species as Baragwanathia27 (betweenrhyniophytes and lycopods), Pikaia28 (between echinoderms and chordates), Purgatorius29 (between the tree shrews and the primates),and Proconsul30 (between the non-hominoid primates and the hominoids). Darwin’s third expectation — of higher-taxon stratomorphic intermediates — has been confirmed by such examples as the mammal-like reptile groups31 between the reptiles and the mammals, and the phenacodontids32 between the horses and their presumed ancestors. Darwin’s fourth expectation — of stratomorphic series — has been confirmed by such examples as the early bird series,33 the tetrapod series,34,35 the whale series,36the various mammal series of the Cenozoic37 (for example, the horse series, the camel series, the elephant series, the pig series, the titanothere series, etc.), the Cantius and Plesiadapus primate series,38 and the hominid series.39 Evidence for not just one but for all three of the species level and above types of stratomorphic intermediates expected macroevolutionary theory is surely strong evidence for macroevolutionary theory. Creationists there foreneed to accept this fact. It certainly CANNOT be said that traditional creation theory expected (predicted) any of these fossil finds.
Did we ever observe the thing "transitioning"??
Sure. The apple maggot fly, for example. Last few hundred years. It is now a reproductively isolated population from the original species.
The Flood was a global, diluvial catastrophe —explaining the commonness of fossils
Fossils are very rare except for marine species that are readily fossilzed and have hard parts. But small, marine organisms with hard parts are very common. As one would expect over millions of years. Large land animals are quite rare as fossils because they don't readily fossilize
The Flood was transgressive — burying plant-animalcommunities in the sequence they were encountered (thusexplaining the second-order sea-to-land first-appearanceorder of major taxa
As Dr. Wise admits the fossil record of whales presents an unsolvable objection to this assumption.
the high disparity/diversity ratioscharacteristic of modern biological communities
But there are the high disparity/diversity ratios of trilobites, dinosaurs, mammal-like reptiles, and many other ancient groups.
the rarity of stratomorphicintermediates
I note Dr. Wise's long list of stratomorphic intermediates. They seem rather common.
Evidence for not just one but for all three of the species level and above types of stratomorphic intermediates expected macroevolutionary theory is surely strong evidence for macroevolutionary theory.
Dr. Wise
and the distinction between Palaeozoicand Mesozoic biotas
This was written before the K-T extinction event was understood. So it's not surprising that almost all land animals weighing over a few pounds disappeared at the K-T boundary. And shortly after that, a whole host of new animals (but as Dr. Wise points out, transitional from earlier species) appears.
Okay now he strays into error here.
He's just being honest. His admission:
At this point in time, the largest challenge from the stratomorphic intermediate record appears to this author to come from the fossil record of the whales. There is a strong stratigraphic series of archaeocete genera claimed by Gingerich60 (Ambulocetus, Rhodocetus, and Prozeuglodon [or the similar-aged Basilosaurus]61) followed on the one hand by modern mysticetes,62 and on the other hand by the family Squalodontidae and then modern odontocetes.63 That same series is also a morphological series: Ambulocetus with the largest hind legs;64-66 Rhodocetus with hindlegs one-third smaller;67 Prozeuglodon with 6 inch hindlegs;68 and the remaining whales with virtually no to no hind legs: toothed mysticetes before non-toothed baleen whales;69 the squalodontid odontocetes with telescoped skull but triangular teeth;70 and the modern odontocetes with telescoped skulls and conical teeth. This series of fossils is thus a very powerful stratomorphic series. Because the land mammal-to-whale transition (theorized by macroevolutionary theory and evidenced by the fossil record) is a land-to-sea transition, the relative order of land mammals, archaeocetes, and modern whales is not explainable in the conventional Flood geology method (transgressing Flood waters). Furthermore, whale fossils are only known in Cenozoic (and thus post-Flood) sediments.71 This seems to run counter to the intuitive expectation that the whales should have been found in or even throughout Flood sediments.
At present creation theory has no good explanation for the fossil record of whales.