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On the timescale we are looking at coastal areas are completely destroyed or created and substantial destruction and renewal of crust occurs. No guarantee of anything being found at all.


Dinosaur fossils also didn't have a guarantee of being found. It's all in the probability.


If you flip a fair coin 1000 times I guarantee it comes up heads at least once. If you set a cup on a table I guarantee it won’t pass through the table, even though both the glass and the table are mostly empty space.

Those things also are all in the probability.




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