>I doubt that anyone, YEC or otherwise would assert that the material
>preserved as coal was the result of one year of growth, especially a "short
>year", especially if the earth was covered with water and the sky occluded
>with clouds.
True, but the YECs usually believe that all the coal is the result of the
burial of one biosphere. Since there is 50 times more carbon in coal than
there is on the present earth. Limestone is largely made of the remains of
dead marine animals. There is 6000 times more carbon in the carbonate rocks
than there is on the present earth. If enven 1/10 of all carbonate is
biogenic, it means 600 times more carbon than in the current biosphere. Global
Flood advocates have a real problem here.
refs.
John M. Hunt, Distribution of Carbon in the Earth's Crust, Bull. AAPG, Nov.
1072
G. R. Morton, The Carbon Problem, Creation Research Society Quarterly, March
1984, pp. 212-219 I stand by the problem not my suggested solution.
glenn
Foundation,Fall and Flood
http://members.gnn.com/GRMorton/dmd.htm