# Evidence of a Global Flood? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 12, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-global-flood/372425 "2006-09-12T16:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-global-flood/372425/141 "2006-09-14T22:26:06Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Of course bouyancy is magic! It shows how a universal flood is a bunch of hoey: > > To start, not all trilobites were of the same size: > [http://www.zeesminerals.com/inventory/fossils/fossils\_trilobites\_130\_1.jpg](http://www.zeesminerals.com/inventory/fossils/fossils_trilobites_130_1.jpg) > > [http://www.zeesminerals.com/large\_fossils\_3.htm](http://www.zeesminerals.com/large_fossils_3.htm) > > [http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fossils/trilobite.html](http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fossils/trilobite.html) > > I would expect the football size trilobites to appear much higher in the fossil record or to appear more often next to the wolves, BTW I could not find a cite that mentioned where those mixed fossils were found, if there was a flood it is clear that trilobites just decided to ignore buoyancy… Nah, more likely they just ended as fossils millions of years before dinosaurs or wolves appeared. > > Here is another item that shows how magic buoyancy is by disposing of the universal flood, from **Colibri** ’s link: > [Problems with a Global Flood, 2nd edition](http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html) Not to defend the “bouyancy” argument in general, but isn’t bouyancy independent of volume? A block of wood that weighs a pound ought to float just as well as a block of wood that weighs a ton, right? Bigger trilobytes would float just the same as smaller trilobytes. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-global-flood/372425/142 "2006-09-15T02:53:47Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Not to defend the “bouyancy” argument in general, but isn’t buoyancy independent of volume? A block of wood that weighs a pound ought to float just as well as a block of wood that weighs a ton, right? True enough. A solid object submerged in water will tend to float if its average density (total mass divided by total volume) is less than that of the water. Like wood does, for example. Or apples. Or witches. However . . . > [@Miller](#): > > Bigger trilobytes would float just the same as smaller trilobytes. One of our zoologists can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe trilo **bites** made their living on the sea floor. If so, then the poor trilobite that found itself floating would surely have starved to death. It’s not as if they were fish. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-global-flood/372425/143 "2006-09-15T03:36:58Z")
> [@Bytegeist](#): > > One of our zoologists can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe trilo **bites** made their living on the sea floor. If so, then the poor trilobite that found itself floating would surely have starved to death. It’s not as if they were fish. Remember, you get eight trilobits to the trilobyte. So if you are buying a new sea floor because you need more trilobites, a kilotrilobyte is 1000 trilobytes or 8000 trilobits, but if you’re buying RASF, it’s really 1024 trilobytes or 8192 trilobits. (But don’t bother suing, because the lawyers will take all the clams.) If you’re dealing with telecommunications, in which your trilobites transfer at nominal dial-up of 56 kilotrilobits but is really only transferring at 33.6k to begin with thanks to the RTAS server and is only really 4.2 kilotrilobytes per second in a unit that makes sense to the layman. Personally, I prefer to use at least a 1 megatrilobit connection for my trilobite downloading needs. If it’s a [Trilobyte](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobyte) that also knows how to program the only good thing that ever came out of it was _The 7th Guest_. See, I’m much funnier than that fundie who writes _B.C._ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-global-flood/372425/144 "2006-09-15T03:49:43Z")
> [@Bytegeist](#): > > One of our zoologists can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe trilo **bites** made their living on the sea floor. If so, then the poor trilobite that found itself floating would surely have starved to death. It’s not as if they were fish. Trilobites were extremely diverse, and occupied many of the ecological niches of later crustaceans. While many lived on the sea floor, others were free-swimming in the upper layers of the ocean, like modern shrimp. See _Opipeuter_ at the bottom of [this page](http://www.trilobites.info/triloecology.htm) for an example of a swimming pelagic trilobite. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-global-flood/372425/145 "2006-09-23T05:21:31Z")
**Interest** , per your request in [this thread on omniscience & free will](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=389384), I am resurrecting this thread to ask you a question. Do you have any comment on the refutations to your arguments presented earlier, in particular those of **tomndebb** and **Colibri** , and **Gigobuster**? Feel free to ignore my posts in this thread, as I was just being snarky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-global-flood/372425.md?page=7)