1. For information on why the days of the Creation Week were literal, see the non-technical paper "God Did It in Six Days" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1993). For a technical treatise on the six days of creation, see Studies in Genesis One by Edward J. Young (Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1976).

2. Not even angels were fallen at this time. See the paper "God Did It in Six Days" mentioned in the preceding note. See also "Six-Day Creation of All Things" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1985).

3. Despite this fact, the myth of slow and gradual fossil formation is often assumed. One of the most articulate popularizers of this myth is paleontologist Robert Bakker, who spins the following tale:

"One hundred sixty million years ago, an elegant sea monster lay down . . . and died on the warm muddy ocean bottom. . . . Then a bottom current gave the beast a decent burial under a blanket of pale green sand, part of the accumulating sediment layers . . ." --

Quoted from "Jurassic Sea Monsters" by Robert Bakker (Discover, Geology Issue Number 1, 1993), page 10.

The cataclysmic facts of fossilization are discussed in Discovery Series monograph #8, "Here Today, Stone Tomorrow," and in the paper "Uniformism and Catastrophism" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1984).

4. These are numerous in places like the Green River Formation in Wyoming.

5. Discovery Series monograph #15, "The Golden Age of History," gives more information about the pre-Flood world.

6. See the paper "Destiny of the Physical Creation" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1985).