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Though there are occasional fossils in coal, it is remarkably fossil free. It also doesn't have the right chemical signature for being of biological origin.

Well, that is news to me. I assume you have a source link for that contention, which I believe would also be news to the rest of the world.

Well, that is news to me. I assume you have a source link for that contention, which I believe would also be news to the rest of the world.

I'll find it. I may have it on another browser on this or another computer. As far as being news to the rest of the world, 95% of this is accounted for by kids growing up being told that coal was formed by compression of ancient forests in the "forest ->peat->lignite->bituminous->anthracite coal" pathway. Coal, like petroleum, however, and unlike peat, has the wrong chemical footprint to have come from a biological source. There are elements far in excess or in paucity to be explicable in terms of the buried forest theory.