There would be virtually no fossils found today if there had not been a Global Flood in the past.  Fossils are not being created today except under very rare cases of rapid catastrophe.  This is because an organism must be rapidly buried and preserved in order to become fossilized.  See Exhibit 4 Fossils for some examples.

• The massive deposits of coal and oil are called nonrenewable fossil fuels because there is no massive fossilization of this kind occurring anywhere in the world today!

• In massive coal deposits there are trees buried upright and preserved before they had time to rot.

• Millions of fossil shells and animals indicate rapid burial since they were still held together by muscle which normally rapidly decays.

• In Nebraska there are hundreds of thousands of fossil bones of various animals buried in sedimentary layers which are laid down by rapidly moving water.

• In Arizona there is the Petrified Forest which is actually a petrified log jam of thousands of trees that had their branches sheared off as they were transported by rapidly moving water and then deposited on the surface.  See Exhibit 23K The Petrified Forest.

 
• In California in the "Monterey Shale" an estimated one billion fish are fossilized in about 4 square miles!

Fish normally float when they die and are quickly devoured or decay.