Hi JBR,
I can see that you've already had plenty of replies, so just two brief points;
Yet the examples of thousands of polystrate tree and animal fossils I am referring to are found as well preserved at the top portions as they are at the bottom.
1) As well preserved at the top as at the bottom? That doesn't sound like a flood to me. If there are trees fossilised
in situ both at the top and the bottom of the formation, they cannot have deposited in a single event. At least, not unless antediluvian trees grew in mid air. What you describe is only consistent with gradual deposition of layer upon layer. No individual layer would have taken millions of years to form, but nor could it have been formed as quickly as you suggest. Such a formation could not possibly have been caused by a single huge flood.
2) Thousands of examples? That's not very many. Surely if the whole of the world was flooded, there would have been entire forests of trees buried by the sediment? We could reasonably expect to see
hundreds of millions of such fossils. They would be everywhere, great forests of them. That is not what we see.
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