Second let's discuss fossil footprints. Could you explain to me how a footprint could lay undisturbed long enough for the mud it was created in to turn to rock, without any sediments of any kind filling it up and turning to stone along with it thus forever obliterating the footprint. From my way of thinking this would mean an extreme length of time of complete calm and no changes at all in water level or wave action. This to me seems impossible on our ever changing Earth. This is actually not so unusual - I have found bones that are only partially fossilized, which simply means that only part of them has been replaced with minerals from the earth.
Fossilization means the mineral replacement of organic material.
Some of the oldest fossils aren't completely mineralized anyway. As for fossil footprints and other mud print remains. This amazes me as well, but it clearly happens. In Minnesota, there is a very special place for the Indians where an outcrop of rosy rock is exposed in the prairie. This rock has not only been inscribed with hundreds of petroglyphs, but it also retains the ripple marks left behind by an old lake bed.