> And to
make coal...
You find a old swamp, and cover it for few million years ...
I don't believe
it takes quite that long.
It takes even longer.
It has taken even longer,
which is not quite the same thing. Do we
have any reason to think we know how long it actually takes? That is,
the time actually required, as opposed to the time taken in the cases
we've looked at?
. . . and there are some folk who claim that you can make all that you
want in 6000 years, if you include a big flood, . . .