1. This claim is discussed in Discovery Series monograph #7, "Noah's Flood, A Current Event." See also The World That Perished by John C. Whitcomb (Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1973).
2. Discovery Series monograph #5, "How About a Date?," discusses chronology. See also It's a Young World After All by Paul D. Ackerman (Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1986).
3. Even evolutionists, when examining actual fossil deposits (as opposed to philosophizing about fossil formation) conclude that fossils formed in floods of water:
"Almost all fossils were buried as sediments, and in most instances the sediments were laid down in water." -- Fossils and the History of Life by George Gaylord Simpson (New York, Scientific American Library, 1983, page 56.
"Many strata must have been deposited very rapidly. . . . They were deposited by hydrodynamic events, such as floods, that had durations ranging from a few seconds to several hours." -- Origin of Sedimentary Rocks by Harvey Blatt and others (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1972), page 115.
"Most of the trees [in the Petrified National Forest] appear to have been uprooted, transported, tumbled, and swirled about by raging streams. . . . To account for so much wood being washed out by floods, transported, dumped, and then buried, we have to visualize large rivers that overspread flood plains and deltas during times of high water." -- Geology of National Parks by Ann G. Harris and Esther Tuttle (Dubuque, IA, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1990), page 104.
"Chatterjee suggests that the animals perished when a flash flood rushed through the countryside. Now the area is parched and rocky, but in those days, water was abundant and vegetation lush. When the flood gushed past, the creatures in its path were buried rapidly and their bones preserved." -- "Dinosaur Ancestors Unearthed in Texas" (Science News, Volume 124, December 3, 1983), page 357.
"The quarry area is a dinosaur graveyard, not a place where they died. A majority of the remains probably floated down an eastward flowing river until they were stranded on a shallow sandbar. Some of them, such as the stegosaurs, may have come from far-away dryland areas to the west. Perhaps they drowned trying to ford a tributary stream or were washed away during floods." -- The Dinosaur Quarry by John M. Good and others (Washington, DC, National Park Service, 1958), page 20.
"Johanson's 1975 pass through Nairobi [Kenya] was particularly rewarding . . . Never before had such a collection of early hominid fossils been discovered: more than 300 fossil fragments -- parts of jaws, crania, hands, feet and limbs -- and also apparently deposited within a short period of time. In fact, Taieb even considered that the thirteen individuals in the assemblage might have died at the same time, perhaps the victims of a flash flood." -- Bones of Contention by Roger Lewin (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1987), page 274.
For more details on the nature of fossils, see the paper "Fossils and the Flood" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1984).
4. Evolutionists confronted with real fossils have recognized the fact that they must form rapidly:
"To become fossilized a plant or animal must usually have hard parts, such as bone, shell or wood. It must be buried quickly to prevent decay and must be undisturbed throughout the long process." -- Fossils by F.H.T. Rhodes and others (New York, Golden Press, 1962), page 10.
"Rapid burial, then, is an obvious prerequisite for preservation . . ." -- Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons by Christopher McGowan (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1991), page 26.
"The organism should be buried rapidly, to prevent destruction by other organisms or by natural events, such as storms. . . . The two conditions necessary for good fossil formation are rapid burial and the possession of hard parts." -- General Science (Teacher's Edition) by Carolyn Sheets Brockway and others (Newton, MA, Allyn and Bacon, 1985), pages 280, 281.
"Quick burial and the possession of a mineralized skeleton is usually required." -- Contemporary Physical Geology by Harold L. Levin (Philadelphia, Saunders College Publishing, 1986), page 142.
In contrast to these assessments of real observations, evolutionists sometimes dogmatize about the terribly slow pace of fossilization: "Fossilization is a process that takes millions of years." -- Economic Botany by B.B. Simpson and M. Conner-Ogorzaly (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1986), page 10. See the paper "Uniformism and Catastrophism" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1984) for more evidence of extreme catastrophism in the fossil record.
5. See pages 36-37 in Origin by Design by Harold G. Coffin (Washington, DC, Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1983). Coffin has done original research on this and other topics which he discusses in this book.
6. See pages 215-218, In the Minds of Men by Ian T. Taylor (Toronto, TFE Publishing, 1987).
7. The classic work on radioactive halos is Creation's Tiny Mystery by Robert V. Gentry (Knoxville, TN, Earth Science Associates, 1986).
8. See "Discovery of Trilobite Fossils in Shod Footprint of Human in `Trilobite Beds' - A Cambrian Formation, Antelope Springs, Utah" by William Meister (Creation Research Society Quarterly, Volume 5, December 1968), page 98.
9. Dinosaur hunter Edwin Colbert has written of this discovery and others in The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries (New York, Dover Publications, 1984).
10. For example, of a certain fossil wood specimen it is stated that it "reveals intricate cellular detail . . . requires rapid infiltration." See Fossils and the History of Life cited in Note 3 above, page 21.