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When oysters die, what usually happens to the shells? Don't they usually open and separate and get broken to bits? So a better question, is how, according to conventional geological concepts, did these numberous closed, articulated fossilized oysters form?
For the oysters' shells to have remained shut, it seems obvious that they must have been buried alive; so some mechanism for rapid burial is required. Of course, we YECers point to the Flood, what do conventional geologists point to?
Coventional geolgists have no trouble with rapid burial - it happens all the time - storms, floods (small f) and landslides are present day processes which can, *locally*, cause very high sedimentation rates. In fact such deposits are a valuable source of information for palaeontologists, because rapid burial can lead to the preservation of soft tissues, which are usually consumed by bacterial action.
But such situations are the exception rather than the rule, so we can just turn the question around. Surely if all sedimentary rocks on the planet are the result of a single burial event (The Flood), most things we see in the fossil record would have been catastrophically buried. Why is most of the stuff in the fossil record disarticulated? Why don't we get extensive preservation of soft tissue?
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