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>Petrified and transformed over thousands of years
Petrification occurs over MILLIONS of years, not thousands, and comes from a specific era - the Devonian Period, before the microbes that break down plant matter had even evolved. This allowed trees that died and fell to remain long enough for their material to be replaced with minerals, creating petrified wood. Devil's Tower in only roughly 50 million years old, well outside the timeframe that would have allowed that to be a possibility.
>You've never examined a tree that large, yet you claim to understand its anatomy
You're correct: we haven't examined a tree that size, because there is no evidence that such a thing ever existed. There certainly were organisms that were substantially larger than their more modern descendants, but there is quite a bit of evidence of their existence, and they still follow the rules of biology, and thus have limitations. There is no evidence to suggest that a rocky formation that has all the characteristics of an igneous formation that has formed in a typical manner to actually be a mystical tree that has no other information to corroborate that theory other than "it totally looks like one, bro." There's clouds that look like shapes too, doesn't mean that there are magical giraffes in the sky.
