Do creationists try to find and study fossils?

Creationists claim that scientists are leaving old earth geology and evolution in droves, so surely their ranks have swelled with paleontologists who have the experience and education to easily acquire a dig permit. If they can build a 25 million dollar Creation Museum, and are working on an even larger Ark park, then surely they can divert a few of those dollars to fund a few of those hundreds of creationist paleontologists.

We should find just the opposite in a flood. We should find very few fossils in such a massive geologic formation that was made in a single year. You need to get a handle on what the biomass of an ecosystem really is. To produce as many fossils as is found in the Karoo formation it would require an ecosystem where animals are literally stacked on top of one another.I think this is just another example of creationists not thinking things through.

I seriously don't think you have a handle on just how many fossils there are in the Karroo formation.

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Whitcomb and Morris cite with approval a paleontologist who estimates that the Karroo Formation of southern Africa is believed to contain 800 billion fossil vertebrates with an average size of the fox.38 There are 126 billion acres on the surface of the earth. Only 30 percent of this area is land, giving a land area of 38 billion acres. If 800 billion animals were spread over the 38 billion available acres, there would be 21 animals with an average size of a fox, per acre, from this deposit alone.
http://glennmortonspages.wikispaces.com/...or+a+Global+Flood

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That is just ONE DEPOSIT, and it requires 21 animals the size of a fox per acre across the whole globe just to account for one deposit. There are still thousands of other deposits that still need fossils. Obviously, we have. We have done the math. It doesn't add up.

He discusses several different geologic formations. Seriously, reading comprehension is important."The Mission Canyon formation in the northwestern United States is part of a truly remarkable deposit."The Mission Canyon formation in the NW US is NOT the Karroo formation found in Africa. But thanks for bringing up the crinoids. Yet another nail in the coffin for flood geology.

"The supergroup consists of a sequence of units, mostly of nonmarine origin, deposited between the Late Carboniferous and Early Jurassic, a period of about 120 million years."
Karoo Supergroup - WikipediaSeriously, a 10 second google search and I found that quote. At least try to make accurate statements. It won't hurt you.

What he was saying is that if we took the volume of crinoid parts found in that single geologic formation it would cover the entire globe in 1/4 of an inch in crinoid plates. That's how many animal fossils are found in that single formation. The author is showing that it is ridiculous to claim that this single formation could have been created from a single flood given the volume of animals it took to create that single formation. Can I stress again how this is just one geologic formation out of thousands?Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

So now we have 30 or so fox sized animals per acre needed to create the Karroo formation, and it looks like they need to be walking around on top of a 3 inches of crinoids wherever they go.The problems keep stacking up for flood geology.

We are hoping for something like a scientific paper with an introduction, methodologies, results, and discussion section. This is the type of paper that scientists write when they communicate their findings.