For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack We have been looking at the theories proposed for the origin of coal, and noting reasons for preferring the flood theory above the more commonly known swamp theory. The three reasons discussed last time; many plants found in coal are not swamp plants, trees found in coal beds sometimes contain energetically transported foreign material, and fossils of salt-water life is often found in coal, all seem to contradict the millions-of-years, slow layering, fresh-water swamp theory. Now, a fourth observation supporting the flood theory: upright tree trunks penetrating tens of feet, perpendicular, diagonally positioned, or upside down, are sometimes found in and associated with coal beds, showing a short time period for coal forming before the tree could rot and fall. Because the tree is in growth position and shows no root regeneration, it probably was buried very quickly, certainly before it could decay...Jack