"Hi all , I decided to start a thread to see what folks had to say about fossilization . I 'll start by saying that , as I understand it , death is certain and fossilization of the remains is highly uncommon . An animal or plant dies and immediately scavengers , animals plants and bacteria , start the process of reclaiming materials from the carcass . There is very little chance of any part of the organism to be left to fossilize . Unless the carcass was relatively quickly protected from scavenger organisms , there is hardly any chance it will form a fossil . So , maybe most fossils we see are the result of a tragic , untimely death . Is this evidence for the flood ?"
"Well by the Flood , I assume you are refering to the description given in Genesis ? Fossils we find today have been attributed to a remarkable variety of environmental settings that allowed them to be preserved . Also , you seem to be refering to the preservation of large animals such as terrestrial vertebrates , which are far rarer than fossils of marine organisms with calcarous skeletons . In that regard , some types of rock are basically one huge fossil as most of their composition is derived from dead animal material . There are just so many different types in which creatures are preserved it is not possible to consider the events within the context of a word like `` tragic `` Unusual ? sometimes . In some cases the word inevitable is the most apt . Also , there are quite a few numbers of ways in which animals have been preserved without the direct involvement of water/sedimentation- terrestrial invertebrates trapped in amber , tarpit `` traps `` like those of the famous Rancho la Brea with remarkable preservations of ice-age mammal fauna and mummified animals from desert environments ( off the top of my head ) . Plus then you have a whole set of fossils preserved in water conditions where there has been very slow , low energy deposition of sediments , like black shales and the Lithographic limestones of Solnhofen ."
"little chance fossilize Unless quickly protected Is this evidence for the flood ?"
"we find today have been attributed to a remarkable variety of environmental settings that allowed them to be preserved"