FOSSILS

If rock layers need millions of years to form, how do we still find many well-preserved fossils in those rocks? Most dead animals decay quickly or are eaten by scavengers fairly quickly after death. But in the uniformitarianview the dead animal must lay there long enough undisturbed by scavengers and without decaying for sediment to build up around itto fossilize it. Even allowing for hypothetical conditions in which animals decayed less quickly, the amount of time for slowand gradual fossilization means that we should find very few or no well-preserved fossils. Local floods couldaccount for individual fossil beds, but not the BIG picture of all the sedimentary layers and well-preserved fossils aroundthe world. This gives us the impression of a global event, such as the world wide flood of Noah's day.