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The layering of the Earth's crust is due to hydrologic sorting from the Flood. The fossils are found in the order in which they were buried, not the order in which they "evolved".

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old comment by David B.

Hydrological sorting would mean that larger particles would tend to settle out first, followed by smaller, and still smaller, etc.

The geologic column does not show this trend except within individual strata, hence while a single strata may be the result of a flood deposition, the entire column can not be. For example, the "Haymond formation" in Texas has over 10000 alternating layers of sand and shale, no hydrological sorting mechanism can explain this in terms of a single event without invoking magic.

Given that one strata being laid on top of another must be the result of it being considerably younger, the order of the strata is representative of the relative ages of the rocks (inversions excepted), hence also of the age of the fossils within them.

old comment by FUNdie (formerly QueenKira)

When I look at everyone's posts, I see the same misunderstandings, then they pounce on those misunderstandings. That's called a "straw man".
The animals that already lived at the bottom such as clams, fish, etc. "lost their buoyancy" because they were instantly covered by hundreds of feet of sediment, buried alive.
Secondly, there are no "simple" organisms in the fossil record. All are fully complex from the Cambrian on up.
Thirdly, after those in the water are buried, the slowest land animals would be the next to be buried, followed by larger land animals, etc. The largest and smartest animals would be the last to be buried, since it would take a long time to drown a diplodocus (this is the "Cretaceous" layer), and apes, humans and birds would be the last to be buried, because apes can climb to the tops of the tallest trees, and humans are smart enough to find a way to stay afloat until the last minute, whereas birds just fly around until they run out of gas. In all these cases, their bodies would just float on the surface and rot, and would not be preserved as fossils, which is why it is so rare to find fossils of apes, humans and birds.

old comment by FUNdie (formerly QueenKira)

(cont'd) @Paschal - fish were BURIED first (not drowned!) Sloths were buried later because they were slow-moving land animals.
If you look at that toy that has the sand in between the glass panes, when you shake it up, it settles out into layers - REPEATING layers of sediments of different density. This is 100% compatible with a worldwide Flood.
You BELIEVE that they are in "chronological order", but there are too many anomalies that prove that they are NOT in chronological order, such as modern humans found in supposedly 250 MYO solid rock, or modern birds found in undisturbed layers below Archaeopteryx, their alleged ancestor.
<<You should try actualy looking at a common cliff face someday >>
I do, frequently, since there are plenty of examples here in north Idaho. What I see is layering from a Flood, a global Flood, and I see curved/bent layers that could only have been created when the rock was originally soft sediment, then mineralized.

“The layering of the Earth's crust is due to hydrologic sorting from the Flood.”
THis happens a lot in floods you’ve studied? My experience with floods and collapsed dams and fallen dikes is that everything’s jumbled if it comes from a single event. Hydrologic Sorting requires multiple events.
The strata we see includes heavier materials resting on top of lighter materials. If those were deposits from two different eras, that makes sense. If they’re from the same flood, it makes no sense at all.

Also, it’s not just bodies that were buried in the Flood.
Could you please explain how the Flood sorted an entire species of dinosaur to the same level? That is, it carefully collected individuals that were mature, and the juveniles, and even those still in eggs to the same level as their empty eggs, their nests, and their footprints?

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