Why are there no cows in the Devonian?

[Sayre]

Pardon my ignorance, but when people cite the age of the earth as 4.5Ga, what is the unit Ga?

 

[Loudmouth]

They were probably larger and a more primitive creature like a wild Ox or a Auroch. Not like the cows we get milk from today.

There weren't any Auroch's in the Devonian. There wasn't a single mammal, from whales to gophers to deer to apes. None.

Second, they aren't found in that strata because they were up on land and buried later in higher strata when they died. (During the flood).

There was land during the Devonian. It wasn't a water world. Why wouldn't any mammals be buried in the Devonian?

 

[Oncedeceived]

Pardon my ignorance, but when people cite the age of the earth as 4.5Ga, what is the unit Ga?

It means years x 10 to the power of 9. It is the way the earth's age is determined. It stands for Giga Anum Giga = 10^9 and Anum = 1 year.

 

[Sayre]

It means years x 10 to the power of 9. It is the way the earth's age is determined. It stands for Giga Anum Giga = 10^9 and Anum = 1 year.

Danke

 

[Oncedeceived]

Danke

Ihr Willkommen

 

[Oncedeceived]

Please, enlighten me and provide a scenario which makes the creation narrative compatible with the fossil record.

I have an old thread about it. I'll look for it so that I don't have to type it all again. Although it seems this forum doesn't permit you to go back to far.

 

[Black Akuma]

I have an old thread about it. I'll look for it so that I don't have to type it all again. Although it seems this forum doesn't permit you to go back to far.

Is this it?

http://www.christianforums.com/t2558844/

 

[EternalDragon]

There weren't any Auroch's in the Devonian. There wasn't a single mammal, from whales to gophers to deer to apes. None.

There was land during the Devonian. It wasn't a water world. Why wouldn't any mammals be buried in the Devonian?

Sorry but everything I read about that period makes it look like an environment, not something across the whole planet.

 

[Oafman]

The Devonian was the age of the Immortal Cow. Because none died, we find no fossils.

 

[juvenissun]

By Day 6 do you mean one 24 hour period, or something different?

It depends. There are different time scales.

 

[juvenissun]

So even if we take the random age you suggest (anything that isn't 4.5Ga), that doesn't resolve the discrepancy between the pattern of the fossil record and the description of Creation and the Flood. I don't think saying the cow was not yet made makes any sense in the biblical literalist's world. Everything was created before death entered the world, yes? So why don't all organisms show up in the record more or less at the same time when death starts up? You can claim that the Devonian was prior to the end of the creation period, but that just moves the problem back. It still doesn't solve your problem of no cows being found with triolobites.

I am not sure. I tend to say the real meaning of death only refers to human. Death of non-human life is not a concern. Plants die too.

 

[FredHoyle]

I am not sure. I tend to say the real meaning of death only refers to human. Death of non-human life is not a concern. Plants die too.

Death is the end for everything including us, you can believe whatever you like but believing something changes nothing.

 

[Black Akuma]

Sorry but everything I read about that period makes it look like an environment

How? How does it sound like an environment? If you mean an aquatic environment, you need to explain why it's missing stuff we would expect to find in an aquatic environment - like aquatic mammals and reptiles, for starters.

 

[CabVet]

I have an old thread about it. I'll look for it so that I don't have to type it all again. Although it seems this forum doesn't permit you to go back to far.

I don't want a three page line by line explanation. All I need to know is how you reconcile the earth being created before the sun and fruit trees before animals.

 

[Queller]

And we don't find animals like brachiosaurs or glyptodons or Sabre-Toothed Tigers with them because...

He's been ignoring this question for a couple of days now.

 

[Queller]

Sorry but everything I read about that period makes it look like an environment, not something across the whole planet.

I would love to know what you read that gave you that impression.

 

[EternalDragon]

I would love to know what you read that gave you that impression.

Scientists little made up story of what they think the Devonian period looked like.

 

[Eight Foot Manchild]

Scientists little made up story of what they think the Devonian period looked like.

I dare you to substantiate this.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Scientists little made up story of what they think the Devonian period looked like.

No, their beliefs are based upon evidence. If they were wrong the evidence would show them to be wrong. It is so sad that you do not understand what evidence is or how it works.

 

[Black Akuma]

Scientists little made up story of what they think the Devonian period looked like.

What, specifically have you read on the subject, ED? What actual research on this have you done?