Texas man claims to find fossils from Noah's flood
- Thread starter GK4Herd
- Start date
God must have really been pissed at the Tribolites back in the Denovian period. Lucky for me to have found some nearby.
Trilobites? Devonian period? The next thing you know you'll be talking about the Burgess Shale formation. You live near the Canadian Rockies?
Haha.
There is a newer subdivision near Sellersburg that was built right on a thick section of the Sellersburg limestone formation (across IN 403 from the huge quarry at the cement plant). That's my goldmine. I've sifted through a bunch of fill where the builders dug basements. Brachiopods galore, foot-long intact corals, a few nice Tribolites, a few sponges, etc. There are also some really nice outcrops around here, sometimes I hit them after a hard rain (no digging on state property). The Silver Creek shale also has some nice finds.
Your finds are one of the reasons I have a hard time wrapping my head around climate change, at least the human caused element of it. It's fairly obvious that a huge section of at least southern IN and KY was at one point, long before man, a tropical ocean environment.
There are so many factors in the climate over the history of earth. Early earth was warmed by a sun that was 30% less intense than our present earth. But the climate was hotter because there was little oxygen in the air and a ton of greenhouse gasses. It wasn't until the evolution of plants and photosynthesis that oxygen was put into the air and the planet started to cool. The earth wobbles on its axis and that creates a cyclic climate pattern. Volcanic activity was much greater in our young earth and that created climate cycles. Solar activity increases and decreases and effects things. There are so many cycles over earth's history that contributed to so many factors.
Life survives and in some cases thrive on the change. But some life becomes extinct. There are far more extinct life than there is life present today. A great deal of those extinctions were the inability of life to adapt to the changes of climate and the evolutionary pressures associated with that change.
The thing that I notice is that from everything discovered about earth's climate history, the increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are followed by increases in temperature. And whether the atmosphere become loaded with greenhouse gasses because we had no plant life like early earth, volcanic activity, or the activity of man, the physics remain the same....it gets hotter. The getting hotter isn't going to eradicate life on earth. But it might drastically change which life remains. Melting ice and rising oceans affects us. Think of the population bases that would be displaced.
I'm not sure dismissing the activity of man is a solid enough reason to dismiss global warming just because it happened before we showed our faces on this planet. The fact remains that if the atmosphere gets pumped with a bunch of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses,the physics isn't going to change whether it was put there by man, a volcano, or the lack of green plants. It's going to get hotter. With that comes change.
Life survives and in some cases thrive on the change. But some life becomes extinct. There are far more extinct life than there is life present today. A great deal of those extinctions were the inability of life to adapt to the changes of climate and the evolutionary pressures associated with that change.
The thing that I notice is that from everything discovered about earth's climate history, the increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are followed by increases in temperature. And whether the atmosphere become loaded with greenhouse gasses because we had no plant life like early earth, volcanic activity, or the activity of man, the physics remain the same....it gets hotter. The getting hotter isn't going to eradicate life on earth. But it might drastically change which life remains. Melting ice and rising oceans affects us. Think of the population bases that would be displaced.
I'm not sure dismissing the activity of man is a solid enough reason to dismiss global warming just because it happened before we showed our faces on this planet. The fact remains that if the atmosphere gets pumped with a bunch of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses,the physics isn't going to change whether it was put there by man, a volcano, or the lack of green plants. It's going to get hotter. With that comes change.
Last edited:
I understand and agree with all that and have no doubt man is impacting the rate of change. I just don't see any feasible way that we can reverse the path of mankind to mitigate our impact. Well, we could kill about 4 billion people, which is what will happen if the oceans rise enough to push everyone east of the Appalachian mountains west and everyone west of the Rockies east.
So we can just not worry about it and it will solve itself, or we can live in fear of it until it happens anyway and solves itself. At this point I'm not sure anything short of banning cars and electricity can slow down changes in the temp.
So we can just not worry about it and it will solve itself, or we can live in fear of it until it happens anyway and solves itself. At this point I'm not sure anything short of banning cars and electricity can slow down changes in the temp.
"So we can just not worry about it and it will solve itself, or we can live in fear of it until it happens anyway and solves itself."
I was hoping this thread would turn toward evolution...not climate change. Oh well.
