World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest

solitas writes in with news from last week of the discovery of a fossilized forest in Illinois. The forest was found in the ceiling of a working coal mine, 250 feet below the surface. It was drowned 300 million years ago in an earthquake, its discoverers speculate — here is a graphic of its formation. Geologists are excited because the huge fossilized forest, over 25 square miles in extent, preserves trees and other plants upright, as they grew.

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Re:Investing money in the young Earth

[Red Flayer]

Was it created in the ground with the rest of the Earth?

Yes.

If so, is there a way to predict where it might be found?

Who are we to presume knowledge of the wisdom of he-that-is-all-knowing-and-all-powerful?

How come nobody's actually pursuing such research programs?

What you're asking, in essence, is why is no one researching the intent and methods of YHWH. If you feel the need to research this, then obviously your faith is lacking -- perhaps you should spend less time at the Universityy of Faithlessness and attend Church more often.

If "Flood geology" is really a better theory, then it should make better predictions about where raw materials are than standard geology does.

Again, you're trying to use logic to reason the will of YHWH -- this does not work; if faith predictions fail, it is because He chose it to be so -- maybe He's testing our faith in his infinite Wisdom.

The profits from such a venture could pay for a lot of evangelism. Why isn't anyone doing this?

You're conflating profits with prophets; your attention should be on the Spiritual rewards of faith, not on the material rewards of speculation and gambling with mineral rights.

I think the biggest problem all you intellectuals have is that you assume that using the power of the human mind, you can know the mind of an infinitely superior being, instead of feeding on the scraps of wisdom he imparts to us through the holy men He chooses. Pshaw -- like it's even possible to use reason to know the unknowable.