ID/Creationism - How fast were extinctions? (Side note)

[jmercer]

I didn't want to derail the thread, but I was wondering... I'd read any number of times (when I was much younger) that a couple of Wooly Mammoths had been found frozen with undigested food still in their systems. As I recall, the food was plants that would not have normally been found under arctic conditions.

Of course, the first question is "Is any of this true?", and the second question is "Do we have any better idea of how this happened?"

Last I heard, there was no real strong theory of how these mammoths got "flash frozen", or how they ended up with food in their systems that shouldn't have been in the area at the time.

Just wondering...

 

[Dr Adequate]

Try this article :

As for instant freezing, as claimed by Ted Holden, there is no evidence of that. The Berezovka mammoth shows evidence of having been buried in a landslide, the cold mud acting as preservative and the underlying permafrost completing the process by freezing the carcass... The Beresovka mammoth is the one that Ted kept claiming was 'instantly frozen' by catastrophe. This is totally untrue, according to the scientists who did the actual research in 1900.

(Ref: Pfizenmayer, E. W., Siberian Man and Mammoth, 1939. Blackie and Son, London)

More marvellous made-up fundie 'facts'.

 

[jmercer]

Aha! Thank you.