Huge Fossilized Rain Forest Found

A huge underground fossilized rain forest has been found in a coal mine in Illinois.

From Yahoo News:

“As you’re walking down these passageways you see these pillars of coal on either side of you and above you—imagine an artist’s canvas painted a flat grey and that is sort of what the grey shale above the coal looks like.”

The largest ever found, the fossil forest covers an area of about 40 square miles, or nearly the size of San Francisco.

Now, scientists usually tell us everything geological has been laid down slowly, taking thousands and millions of years to deposit and form. So ask yourself: how does organic material (leaves, stems, tree trunks, etc.) last for thousands or millions of years--long enough to become fossilized--without rotting as they normally do?

Creation scientists have been saying for years that this is evidence of catastrophic burial, such as would have happened in the Bible's account of the global flood.

Seems evolutionists have finally smacked themselves in the forehead and realized the problem of non-rotting organic matter that becomes fossilized is a major fly in their ointment.

So now they've come on board the catastrophism train...but still can't quite bring themselves to consider something as unsophisticated as the Biblical explanation:

The scientists think a major earthquake about 300 million years ago caused the region to drop below sea level where it was buried in mud. They estimate that within a period of months the forest was buried, preserving it “forever.”

“Some of these tree stumps have been covered geologically speaking in a flash,” Elrick said.

It couldn't have happened in a cataclysmic global flood as the Bible says, though. That would have been too much to pull off for the God who created the entire universe out of nothing.