[An excerpt: Sinking a Floating Forest by Kurt P. Wise] "Have you ever wondered about the kinds of exotic environments that God created from scratch during Creation Week? What an astonishing array of fully functional communities He must have made! Paleontologist Kurt Wise shares one example: A vast forest once floated atop the ocean, filled with combinations of strange plants and animals unlike anything we see today...

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If such a quaking bog were to explain the huge number of fossil plants, the bog would have to be enormous—the size of a continent. Since most of it would be forest, with smaller plants only around the edge, it would really be a floating forest. It turns out that floating vegetation mats are surprisingly common in the present day, and the mats can be made of different plants in very different environments (acidic quaking bogs in cold temperate North America, papyrus in warm temperate Africa, tropical forest in Amazonia). This suggests that plants can establish floating mats rather easily. The unusual plants that we find in the fossil record might actually have formed a floating forest.

If a floating forest once existed, how did the plants get buried in the right order? I suspected that the destructive waves of the Flood ripped apart the floating forest from the outside in—first burying the weak water plants, then the small bushes, then the tall bushes, and finally the tall trees.

Developing the theory was the hard part. Realizing how much it explained was exciting. I realized, for example, that once the Flood destroyed the floating forest, choppy waters would prevent it from ever forming again. Such an ecosystem would be stable if created that way, but once destroyed, it would never exist again. This explains why most of the plants in it are extinct today and why floating vegetation mats exist only in small, protected areas..." Full text:  Sinking a Floating Forest http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n4/floating-forest

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "I am getting bogged down with all your nature stuff."

Interesting though, hmm?

"God and his Angels genetically engineered all types of Fauna and Flora and isn't God a Great Guy to do it for us.  But do you know exactly how He and his Angels did it?"

God is great. Angels are created by God and Christ (Ne 9:6; Col 1:16).  God (Ge 1:1; 2:4,5; Pr 26:10), Christ (Jn 1:3,10; Col 1:16) and the Holy Spirit (Job 26:13; Ps 104:3) created. 

Sinking a Floating Forest