Saturday, September 28, 2019

ARCHAEOLOGY: "Floated out to Sea" doesn't Wash

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:10

"Discoveries like a new and relatively complete hadrosaur from Japan keep testing secular scientists’ skills to imagine ways whole dinosaurs could have fossilized. These findings also happen to make slick-fitting pieces of the Bible’s picture of the past.


A Hokkaido University press release via EurekAlert noted that the remains were found in “marine deposits.”
The team suggested that it “preferred to inhabit areas near the ocean.” Mingled fossils included sea creatures like “ammonoids, mosasaurs and a sea turtle.”
The hadrosaur didn’t have fins or flippers, so what was it doing there?

The report includes an illustration of a dramatic scene of the Japanese hadrosaur dead and floating belly-up in a still sea with living sea creatures. Gizmodo also reported on this find, saying, “The researchers speculate that its carcass floated out to sea, eventually falling onto the seafloor, allowing it to be preserved in sediment.”

This “floated out to sea” explanation doesn’t wash—we’ve heard this speculation before. It raises the same three unanswered questions in Japan as it does in Montana, the western United States including Colorado, Canada, (where a dinosaur “wasn’t supposed to be there”), England, the rest of Europe, Morocco, (where a dinosaur discovery was “like hunting for fossil whales and finding a fossil lion,”) the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, Mongolia, and who knows where else.

*First, if these animals got washed out to sea, then what kept them from getting scavenged?
*Next, that 2017 nodosaur weighed almost one and a half tons, but this Japanese hadrosaur “weighed upward of 5.3 tons.” How bad does the weather need to get to flush that much bulk out to sea?
*Last, heavy rains can wash animals to sea, such as cows flushed from Australian floods a few months ago. But are they getting stuck in muds with clams, fish, and turtles? Are they turning into whole-body fossils today? Clearly not.

Noah’s Flood must have entombed Kamuysaurus japonicas at about the same time it did the same thing elsewhere around the world."
ICR