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Then consider this, from the same source:
(I recognize that the numbers given for possible extant species is subject to debate: some authorities have posited anywhere from 3.5 million to 30 million species, but for my proposes I think the 4.5 million is a reasonable figure. )
Now, consider that you (creationists) claim all species living today (4.5 million) survived the great flood---speciation being an untenable notion--- and that all 250,000 fossilized species arose out of the great flood
Furthermore, consider the fact that there is not, to my knowledge, a single living species today that shows up in the fossil record. All fossils are of species no longer alive.
So the question is, just how did this very peculiar selection take place? How did the flood manage to select and only fossilize examples of those species that would not survive the flood?
Why would 250,000 species be completely wiped off the earth and leave a record of their former existence, while not one specimen of those who made it through the flood be fossilized? 250,000 species and not a single one of a contemporary species.
The Edward's wolf (Canis edwardii) lived in the very same habitat as the gray wolf (Canis lupus), yet only the Edwards wolf was fossilized. Alligator olseni once lived in Florida, the same place Alligator mississippiensis lives, yet only A. olseni was fossilized and not a single fossil of A. mississippiensis has turned up. Bison priscus is well known by its fossilized remains but not a single fossil of Bison bonasus the European bison, which lives in the very same area, was fossilized. The list could go on and on: not one species living today ever had a relative of the same species turn up in the fossil record.
So is this the way god's the plan went? "Any of you guys who want to survive my up-coming flooding don't plan on leaving behind any fossil traces of your species, but those of you who want to be remembered in rock don't count on surviving the Big-Wet-One."