CREATIONISTS: Can you explain the existence of coal?

The oddest arguement I have heard is that god created the stars wth the light already enroute to the earth. So they appeared to us within 6000 years. Its probably safe to assume the creationist will say god created the coal in the same manner.

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Look at these answers! They deman absolute proof of evolution, but have all these half ****** theories on how god created it. Imagine these lunatics teaching this in a classroom, just inventing answers to anything they dont know.

Diamonds and coal can be reproduced in a very short space of time and like fossils can be reproduced in a generation at most. School is for infants . A little bit of adult research sometimes upsets popular opinion posing as education. Have you ever thought of higher education , a degree perhaps ? Even that is heavily biased these days to suit secular and commercial considerations. Not being a geologist I am not an expert witness ,however time scale for a global Flood to engulf all life and land is very short given the proven shift of Earths magnetic axis to effect massive ocean speeds at certain latitudes. Something like a thousand miles an hour. Whether meteorite or earth core shift we dont know but dont jump to conclusions on the educational level of people outside your belief system. Its called prejudice and many scientists have based their whole lives on such false foundations

Have you not taken a creation course. God created the earth a complete working model. Adam was a grown up when he was created. Don't be dumb, God created it all in the earth and ready to use.. Water, oil, coal, gold, silver, ect.. By the way, the chicken came first.

What you are quoting is man's best to explain how the earth came about without God creating it by a miracle. God does miracles all the time..

Logic does not work when you talk of miracles..

God is God and defies natural laws and when we try to define God as a man then we make big mistakes..

Yes I have. I'm not a creationist, but have you ever considered that the dating on isotopes could be wrong? Or perhaps that God is so perfect in everything he knew we would find a way to carbon date and made it appear that things have aged for millions of years. You know how many times in physics and chemistry I was told, "We don't know if this is right, but it seems to be the only answer so now it's fact." That's that I guess. I was once told by a Christian that the biggest reward in heaven was knowing all.

so....when the coal was forming....were humans snails? or were the chemicals that make up the human body spontaneously combining?

Also, Science magazine, vol 224, 1984 had an article which stated:

Shells from LIVING snails were carbon dated as being 27,000 years old. Time magazine June11,1990 published a science article subtitled, "Geologists show that carbon dating can be way off."

somewhere along human history, human's heads got inflated and they got proud; so some how some way someone said stuff happened in millions of years and got proud of that assumptions and basically all the other proud people ran with it. Read the Bible it will correct false thinking

Duh...The earth wasn't created out of nothing. The earth was FORMED from existing matter that I'm sure is very very old.

Dude, coal is a rock. Coal sucks anyway, why are you talking about coal

First of all, nothing was here 280 million years ago. Were you there? How do you know it took that long? God said he created everything "in the beginning." That's it...

God Bless!

You have no idea how they think do you?

God put it there of course.

You can not argue with them on this level because of the "God did it" answer. I know it doesn't make sense but logic does not work with them.