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→Origins: Slightly expand creationist explanation
== Origins ==
== Origins ==
[[Young earth creationists]] believe that most coal was formed during the [[Great Flood]] <ref>http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/read/the_record_buried_in_coal</ref>.
Laboratory experiments show that coal can be formed in a matter of months, and with temperatures as low as 100 to 150 degrees Celsius for brown coal and 400 degrees Celsius for black coal.<ref>Quoted by Walker, Tas, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/328 Coal: memorial to the Flood] ''Creation'' 23(2):22–27, March 2001.</ref>
Recent finds such as the world's largest fossil forest in the [[Illinois]] Herrin coal bed, a 6-foot-thick strip mined by a subsidiary of Peabody Coal, would seem to cast doubt on this theory, as two other actively mined Illinois coal seams, the Danville and the Springfield, which sit above and below the Herrin, respectively, appear to be separated by about a half-million years of geological time. <ref>http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/6E9003B041B59699862572C7000F4E02?OpenDocument</ref>
Recent finds such as the world's largest fossil forest in the [[Illinois]] Herrin coal bed, a 6-foot-thick strip mined by a subsidiary of Peabody Coal, would seem to cast doubt on this theory, as two other actively mined Illinois coal seams, the Danville and the Springfield, which sit above and below the Herrin, respectively, appear to be separated by about a half-million years of geological time. <ref>http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/6E9003B041B59699862572C7000F4E02?OpenDocument</ref>