that is why I have said probable. Some atheists admit that many organisms show the appearance of design but they say it is not really design. Can this be rational and the correct use of reason?
Coal, oil and natural gas
Evolution does not explain the vast quantities of these fossil fuels. Unimaginably vast amounts of plant and animal matter must have been buried at the same point in time to enable harvesting of at least 3 million barrels of oil a day and at least a billion barrels per year.
The conditions for oil formation require exclusion of bacteria and oxygen and high pressure i.e what we would expect from a massive flood. It is worth noting that coal, oil and gas are not being formed now – in sedimentary rocks.
Uniformitarianism as mentioned above, is a basic theory of evolution, teaching that everything occurred in the past just the way it occurs today. In other words, it says there have never been any catastrophes in the past, i.e no great Flood which caused the strata and buried the plants and animals fossilized within them. Uniformitarianism has strong bearing on the rock strata. Since no more than an inch or so of sediment is presently being laid down each year in most dry areas, no more than this amount should have been deposited yearly in those places in the past. Since there are thick sections of rock containing fossils, those rocks and their contents should have required millions of years to be formed. If this were true we would be hard pressed to find any fossils and the formation of fossil fuels would be impossible. Also, the evidence of frozen mammoths and the conditions necessary to produce fossils clearly disproves