In academia today, the general consensus being taught in public school(s) is that quartz based fossils (the most common fossils) take millions of years to form. Geologists do admit and have found that the fossilization process may not take millions of years. However, even the geologists have failed to recognize the complete process of how it happens.
Volume II of the Universal Model (specifically chapter 10 The Age Model and chapter 11 The Fossil Model) will answer this and several other questions regarding fossils.
