Posted on 05/21/2026 1:40:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
According to a report from the Daily Mail, fossilized trees standing vertically through thick layers of sedimentary rock at sites across the United States are fueling fresh discussion about whether they support the catastrophic flood described in the Bible.
Known as polystrate fossils, these ancient tree trunks pierce multiple geological strata—layers long thought by mainstream science to have formed over millions of years.
Prominent examples appear in Yellowstone National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, and coal fields in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.
Researchers with Noah’s Ark Scans, a group investigating evidence for the biblical ark, highlighted the anomaly on X. “A dead tree doesn’t stand upright for millions of years waiting for sediment to slowly build around it. It rots. It collapses,” they posted. “These trees appear to have been rapidly buried by massive sediment flows before they could decay.”
Supporters of the Genesis account argue that such rapid, widespread burial aligns with a sudden global deluge: 40 days and nights of rain combined with “fountains of the deep” unleashing waters that submerged even the highest mountains, sparing only Noah, his family, and the animals on the ark.
Mainstream geologists counter that polystrate fossils result from repeated local catastrophes—volcanic eruptions, river floods, mudslides, and swamp sediment shifts—without requiring a single worldwide event. The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption is often cited as a modern parallel for rapid upright burial.
Yet even some conventional experts have acknowledged unusually fast sedimentation. The late geologist Derek Ager described the idea of a 33-foot tree standing for 328,000 years as “ridiculous,” noting trees would decay long before slow burial could complete.
Noah’s Ark Scans researchers concluded: “The fossil record looks a lot more like the catastrophic world described in Genesis than the slow evolutionary timeline we’ve been sold.”
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or just flooding
Pretty sure when the last ice age ended in North America there were more than a couple days of flooding. I don’t think that had anything to do with God being pissed at Noah’s buddies.
Lots of religious texts contain a flood story. I assume it’s possible that they’re all talking about the same one.
AT some point in the past, a huge comet hit what is now Northern Canada, in the region of Hudson’s Bay. Only it wasn’t a ‘bay’ at the time, there was a mile thick sheet of ice at that place. The meteor was an iron-nickel type and had other various metals in it as well. That would have melted enormous swaths of the ice shell of the northern hemisphere and sent torrents of melt water in all directions on land and into the stratosphere.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-reveals-comet-airburst-evidence-years.html
Was taking to a gravel pit guy and theu get trees all the time, theu just shove them over the bank to keep from being hasseled
Have also seen trees standing vertical in coal beds
Leave this to actual geologists and go back to their mythology.
Assuming the Narrative about successive ice age cycles holds up in the end...sure!
There are many real geologists and geophysicists who are young earth creationists who believe in a global flood.
So this author just discovered plate tectonics and how over millions/billions of years different layers of earth can be pushed up or down, even in isolated areas or fragments
That’s all the prove I need.
LOL, when some of you die, you are going to be amazed at all the things in this world that were intertwined with the Bible over whatever expanse of time from when the beginning was.
Need to check on what philosophical assumptions you examine the world with. Those assumptions can make a huge difference in how discoveries are interpreted.
Kuhns book about the structure of scientific revolutions is very helpful.
Whoever wrote the head line needs to learn English.
Somebody can neither spell nor define "proof."
Actually, I used to say that as well until I looked into it.
The flood stories differ significantly.
The Biblical one and that of Gilgamesh are similar as is the Hindu one (the Hindu story origin dates to after 300 BC so might be borrowed from Gilgamesh), but the others not so much:
- the Chinese us about localized flooding in the yangtze yellow valley
- Zoroastrianism has no flood story. It has an ice age story, but no flood.
- Jainism has no flood story, which tells me that the Hindu story is borrowed (as Jainism and proto Hinduism split in 700 BC)
- Mesoamerica: only the Aztecs had a flood story
- Sub Saharan Africa has no flood stories
- Aboriginal Australia has no flood stories
- Shintoism has no flood stories
It is assumed that this happened when a glacial dam broke, draining a very large lake into western areas of the continent. That is the same event that formed the Grand Canyon. Equating that to Noah’s Flood is a stretch.
According to a report from the Daily Mail, fossilized trees standing vertically through thick layers of sedimentary rock at sites across the United States are fueling fresh discussion about whether they support the catastrophic flood described in the Bible.
Known as polystrate fossils, these ancient tree trunks pierce multiple geological strata--layers long thought by mainstream science to have formed over millions of years.
The etymology is straight foward enough: many strata, layers. Many stripes, so to speak.
A polystrate fossil is a fossil of a single organism (such as a tree trunk) that extends through more than one geological stratum.[1] The word polystrate is not a standard geological term. This term is typically found in creationist publications.[1][2]
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The Hebrew word for Old Glory's stripes is "פסים", passim. Here and there, everywhere for the Latin pun.
Biblically, it (passim pl., sing. pas) is only used for the description of a very special type of coat.
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bfl
Fossilization of trees takes way longer than the 5-6,000 years since Noah’s flood.
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