No, there are no known coals from the deep sea. If the coals were from
vegetation dropping out from the global flood (as Steve Austin has
suggested and Bill apparently believes) then one of the expectations is
that the floating mats would float everywhere. Since approximately 70% of
the earth's surface is now deep ocean basin, one would on average expect
that these vegetation mats would float over modern ocean basins about 70%
of the time and thus 70% of the coal should occur in the deep ocean basin.
But there are no deepwater coal beds. This is a serious problem for the
veggie mat theory in a global flood context.
Also, if the vegetable mats were the result of floating vegetation from the
flood, then there is another tough question. There should have been a
mixing of plants from all the world's ecosystems on top of the flood
waters. Yet, this is not observed. There are NO modern angiosperms found
in Pennsylvanian coals and no Lycopods in Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary
coals. Why, if the flood was turbulent enough to rip up the entire world's
biosphere, and was able to accumulate all the vegetation in huge mats
floating on the surface, why is there no mixing of plant types? This is
another unanswered question for those who believe in the global flood.
glenn
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
Foundation, Fall and Flood
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