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To: schaef21
"Wouldn’t the trees have rotted away first? Just askin’."

If you travel through certain states out west, you can see fossilized trees laying on the ground. A fossilized tree will last as long as any other fossil. And if it was exposed for any time length (such as those we see out west), and later re-covered with sediments, then it might well extend over more than one geological level.

1,618 posted on 02/03/2009 9:50:36 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

If you travel through certain states out west, you can see fossilized trees laying on the ground. A fossilized tree will last as long as any other fossil. And if it was exposed for any time length (such as those we see out west), and later re-covered with sediments, then it might well extend over more than one geological level.****

According to your view....it takes thousands/millions of years to lay down rock layers (you may want to revisit an earlier comment that I made about Mount St. Helens as to whether I believe this to be the case.)

In order to be fossilized, something has to be buried rapidly....how exactly would a 20’ long tree trunk going through multiple rock layers get buried quickly if it takes thousands/millions of years for the layers to form?

Wait a minute....Creationists believe in Catastrophism and not Uniformitarianism. Therefore, Creationists would predict that you’d find polystrate fossils.

Sorry BroJoe...it doesn’t fit your model, it fits mine.


1,637 posted on 02/03/2009 8:49:50 PM PST by schaef21
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