I read the article - twice. It’s the typical Brian Thomas M.S. codswallop that in the minds of the un-, mis-, and poorly- informed passes for critical review. It’s comical, willful ignorance and the height of arrogance for him to cite Steve Donovan as a source to dispute the well understood processes of fossilization; Thomas is simply out of his intellectual and academic league.
It is not science to simply proclaim that one doesn’t believe the well supported evidence of Earth’s history because it conflicts with one’s theological view - to be taken seriously you have to go beyond saying, “Nope. God did it and everyone who actually studies this stuff is wrong.”
If you want to know how fossils are made, read one of Donovan’s books, and then start going through his countless other publications - but don’t buy into any of the crap that comes out of the ICR.
I haven’t read Steve Donovan’s books. This author suggests that Donovan’s view is that fossils are created over long periods of time. However, it’s totally reasonable that a horse in muck at the bottom of a lake would disintegrate by scavenging & microbes.
If you’ve got a crazy mix of animals & plants very well preserved together it’s also reasonable to consider that they died and were preserved by a rapid accumulation of sediment during a major disaster. You’ve got to agree that this is possible.
Then you call Thomas “arrogant” for daring to question Donovan and then say he’s “simply out of his intellectual and academic league”. Just because there’s LOTS of documentation out there to support your view doesn’t mean it’s correct. It seems to me that the wrong person has been called arrogant.
Again, rather than sending me off to someone’s “countless other publications”, what is YOUR guess as to how these fossils were made?