Posted by Kindred [Kindred] on April 02, 1999 at 03:43:38 {ppHCdFLRUMZyDytsQPQ2YW5eok125A}:
In Reply to: "Mammoth" Evidence posted by WW on April 01, 1999 at 20:09:43:
I've read it as you asked...
At best you can place several types of animals as coexisting with the mammoths (and none of these animals need to live in tropical conditions, were the rhinoceres whooly? There are such beasts you
know)...nothing earth shattering here.
The whole fundie argument is that there was a sudden drastic change in temperature precipitated by the Flood.
Key to the argument is that it had to be very warm at the time the mammoths were
around, because huge fruit trees and tropical trees were supposedly around at the same time. Trees were said to have been found 1100 to 1900 feet below the present ground level....the mammoths weren't though...and if you understood the
principle of superposition you can see how nearly 2000 ft difference in the layers separating two finds definitely places them at two distant points in time. There was easily enough time there for gradual temperature changes. You don't
really have any compelling evidence.