Creation Science and the BEDS Coal Model

Standard models for coal formation have numerous problems, including the curiosity that it is less than one percent of all sedimentary rocks, but there is so much that it is the source of most of the world's electricity. Coal is supposedly formed through the compression of peat.

Numerous conditions would have to be just right for peat to form coal. Peat would then have to be buried very deeply, form the coal, and then be uncovered so it could be used. Interesting that dinosaur tracks have been found in it, as well as vertical tree trunks.

Coal, RGBStock / Michal Zacharzewski, modified at Big Huge Labs

Creationists frequently use conditions during the Genesis Flood as the basis for models. Like the models of secular scientists, these use present conditions (such as the movement of water) in forensic science to see if they fit what may have happened in the past. The BEDS model is a good explanation for dinosaur tracks and eggs, and it is also useful to explain the origin of coal — and it does so better than uniformitarian speculations.

BEDS stands for Briefly Exposed Diluvial Sediments, in which local or regional falls of the waters of Noah’s Flood temporarily expose freshly laid sediments. This model has been used to explain dinosaur tracks, eggs, and scavenged bonebeds early in the Flood, as well as other geological challenges.1 It also provides one mechanism for the origin of coal.

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