what would really help would be a degree in paleontology with taphonomy the article says this sometimes creationists will claim that fossilization can only take place when the matter is buried quickly so that the matter does not decompose the reference is this isaak p creationist claim cc at talk origins this is what talk origins says claim cc fossilization requires rapid burial or the organism will decay this suggest that a catastrophe is responsible for the fossil source whitcomb john c jr and henry m morris the genesis flood philadephia pa presbyterian and reformed publishing co pp this is what w m actually say the only way they organic remains can be preserved long enough from the usual processes of decay scavenging and disintegration is by means of quick burial in aqueous sediments there is a big difference between an organism being saved from total destruction so that it might become a fossil and the fossilization processes of permineralization or carbonization etc which preserve the organism after it has been buried talk origins conflates the two if you don't know the difference you don't have enough knowledge to judge what w m said and probably don't understand how talk origins blatantly lied the above misrepresentation of w m must be expunged from the article and a sentence reflecting what they actually say with a reliable source talk origins has no reliability as anyone can see especially in this case