Few or no new fossils are being formed. Fossils must have been produced
by radically different conditions (a global flood) in the past.
Source:
Whitcomb, John C. Jr. and Henry M. Morris, 1961. <#The Genesis Flood#>.
Philadephia, PA: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., p. 129.
Wysong, Randy L. 1976. The Creation-Evolution Controversy.
Midland,
Mich.: Inquiry Press, p. 364.
Response:
The mechanisms by which fossils form are still occurring. We do not
often observe them because they are generally out of sight or rare, but
they still happen.
The La Brea Tar Pits have trapped and preserved animals (and at
least one person) in recent times.
Pompeii preserved many bodies in 79 C.E.
Sediments from rivers still cover corpses in their deltas.
Insects and plants are being covered by geyser deposits.
