) There one of the muppets engaged PZed in a debate rather similar in scale to Lesotho attacking California. However, at one point he said something that I had to come back and talk to him about later. He had a coprolite in a little box and said words to the effect that there's no way "soft material" like that could fossilize, so it must have been put there by the creator. After PZ was done with him I slid over and took him I could describe a perfectly reasonable scenario for the fossilization of poop. When I visited Yellowstone a few decades back I happened to witness a mud flow, hot mud from a geyser thingy that ran across a road near where we were staying. The mud had swamped a picnic area and the Rangers were assessing the situation. One of them pointed to the rim of a trash barrel, sticking about six inches up from the mud, and said, "A million years from now, somebody will be studying the trash in there for their Ph.D."
I remembered this when I talked to the fundy and pointed out that a turd encapsulated in hot mud would be baked, killed bacteria and stopping decay. The mud would protect it from external forces and if the fossilization process proceeded we'd have a sample just like the one in his box. He nodded and smiled.
A few minutes later I heard him give his original spiel about the coprolite to a new batch of people, not changed one wit.
. And then when they come back, they can 