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.
Pal, I'm pretty sure I remember you rightly complaining that I had wrongly put words in your mouth, and I remember apologizing for that.
So, would it be too much for me to ask you to apologize for misrepresenting my arguments?
What the science of geology says is that rock sediments can be laid down over almost any period of time, ranging from instantaneous deposits from volcanoes to the settling of sediments under waters over millions of years.
To determine the age of any particular rock strata, geologists look at everything in and around the layer, including any materials which can be dated by radioactive decay.
I should mention that geologists over many years have developed a grand scheme of things, involving every stratum in the geological columns, so no rock layer is ever dated in isolation from those around it.
schaef21:"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?"
Fossils of any kind (plants or animals) can only form when the body is quickly covered with sediments, before normal processes of decomposition have time to take effect. So, typically, we're talking about a flood along a river bank covering up a new corpse or recently fallen tree. That's why there are so few fossils, considering the millions of years of geological history.
Other original sources of fossils include volcanoes, land slides, tar pits, quick sand and shallow anaerobic seas.
The geologists' grand scheme I mentioned says that layers of rock mostly form under water, but then what was under water years ago can get pushed up into mountains, which slowly erode. If the erosion exposes a fossil (like those petrified trees), it may sit partially exposed on the surface until covered up again in a future flood.
Exactly which part of this do you not understand?