I realize you are busy in conversation with the CCC but there is a lot of low hanging fruit in this link of which this one, for obvious reasons, caught my attention.
Schadewald on the Karroo Formation
Schadewald, cited by Isaak with approval: “Robert E. Sloan, a paleontologist at the University of Minnesota, has studied the Karroo Formation. He asserts that the animals fossilized there range from the size of a small lizard to the size of a cow, with the average animal perhaps the size of a fox. A minute’s work with a calculator shows that, if the 800 billion animals in the Karroo formation could be resurrected, there would be twenty-one of them for every acre of land on earth. Suppose we assume (conservatively, I think) that the Karroo Formation contains 1 percent of the vertebrate fossils on earth. Then when the Flood began, there must have been at least 2100 living animals per acre, ranging from tiny shrews to immense dinosaurs. To a noncreationist mind, that seems a bit crowded.”
Answer: Actually, Schadewald, who (like Isaak himself) lacks scientific qualifications as far as we know, is the pseudoscientist. John Woodmorappe, in Studies in Flood Geology, shows that a population density of 800 animals per hectare results if the supposed 800 billion Karroo vertebrates are evenly spread over Africa south of the Equator (10 million km2). But studies of present habitats over wide areas show that iguanid lizards can live at 889 animals per hectare, anoles up to 110,000, Manchuria island pit viper 10,000, Colorado rattlesnakes 1235. Also concentration of fossils can occur through massive flooding washing organisms into a basin, as shown by Dr Tas Walker, Geology and the Young Earth, Creation 21(4):16–20, September–November 1999. So there was nothing “unanswerable” about Schadewald’s argument, despite his arrogant claim.
And yet this does not answer Schadewald's argument at all!
It is conservatively estimated that the number of fossils in the Karoo formation represent 1% of all fossils on earth. (In other words more likely the number found there represents far less than 1% of all fossils on earth.)
Then he calculates the animal density from the Karoo formation
alone at a higher number yet! If we now add the detail about the Karoo formation representing 1% of all fossils on earth we arrive at 80,000 animals per hectare!
And nice stats on snakes and lizards by the way. If we consider fly populations those numbers could be jacked up even higher.
But the average size animal in the Karroo Formation is estimated to be the size of a fox.
Notes:
Land area of earth is 57,268,900 square miles or 3.6652x10^10 acres
So 800 billion divided by this number of acres is indeed 21 animals per acre. Actually 21.83 which when converted to Hectares is 54 animals per hectare.
And
800 billion divided by 10 million km^2 is 80,000 animals per sq km. which is 800 animals to Hectare or 324 per acre.
So the math is correct as far as that goes for both parties.
I suspect the new calculation is a distraction intended to make the reader forget that the fossils of the Karoo formation are only 1% of all fossils to be considered in the calculation and that the average size animal is that of a fox rather than a lizard.
Kolob’s set time is “one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest” (Abraham 3:4). I take this as a round number. - Gee