The Origin of Oil—A Creationist Answer

[Are_grits_groceries]

The dominant view of the origin of oil amongst western oil companies until 1969 was that it was due to the decay of living matter. Now other views are making themselves heard. To try and resolve the issue whether oil is biogenic (derived from living matter) or abiogenic (built up from primordial matter and therefore not from living matter) a Hedberg Conference recently took place. The issue was not resolved. This suggests that a third alternative is needed, especially as neither model fits into a young-earth scenario.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss those naturalistic models, show that there are severe problems with both models, and offer a robust alternative which respects the geochemistry of oil, the known geology of rocks involved in the process, the Creator’s power, and the geological events surrounding the Noachian Flood. I have called it the “theobaric” model, meaning made by God. The oil existed in pristine state before the Flood, and moved during the Flood into the reservoirs where we now find it. This has interesting implications for Christian apologetics and the choice of Flood models.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v1/n1/origin-of-oil

The origin of teh stupid.....

[Taverner]

1. Yes - they think that oil will keep coming from rocks "melting"

Yeah, that's it, rocks just melt and mail oil....

[gratuitous]

2. Good God

You gave them brains, but no instruction manual.

[sagetea]

3. Lol!!

[armyowalgreens]

4. Anybody who still believes in the great flood is a failure at life.

[Oregone]

5. God put it there because He likes to see people fight

Heaven bores the shit of of Him. The musicians there suck. Ever since Satan got dibs on Elvis, Jim Morrison and Robert Johnson, God just walks around, sulking, plotting up new ways to make Earth more entertaining to watch.

[Deja Q]

6. So God didn't find a big hole, unzipped his fly, stuck in his willy, and peed in the oil?

Well, darn.

:yoiks:

Forgive my flippancy, but I don't think oil is the age old remnant of sinners either. Well, maybe a sinnersaurus...

Abiotic or otherwise, there is no reason to summarily waste a reasonably good resource!

[izquierdista]

7. Cargo cult papers

They have the right words, 'model', 'robust alternative', 'geochemistry', and they arrange them in sentences with correct syntax, but their ideas are less likely to fly than this aeroplane:

[KamaAina]

8. I thought you just squeezed a whole bunch of crudes?

You know, like olive oil comes from olives, etc?

By the way, where does baby oil come from? :shrug:

[nosmokes]

9. I thought god shat the oil and that's how it ended up belonging to the Arabs?

[NYC_SKP]

10. Kinda gives a new meaning to the term "Virgin Oil"...

"Oil created after the Flood

It would seem unusual for God to have created oil after the Flood. Whilst the Bible contains many examples of God actively creating new healthy limbs (for example, in some of the miracles of the New Testament) after the Creation Week, and oil (though surely comparable to a plant derivative rather than what we get out of the ground) for the Shunammite woman, that level of creativity is miniscule to what God did during the Creation Week. It would therefore seem more likely that God created oil during the Creation Week.

There is a technical issue that seems to confirm God creating oil in the Creation Week. Oil in known reservoirs seems to have entered from deeper positions in the earth (Wilson 2005). We will examine the details later."

"Creation Week"! I love it... :P

[BlooInBloo]

11. It's always funny watching idiots try to "talk smart".

[charlie]

12. It's true

The oil is just a layer in a layered earth. And you know what's underneath the Light Sweet Crude layer?

A CHEWY CARAMEL CENTER!

I don't know why we're just standing around. We should dropping atom bombs down holes to get at that shit.

[Confusious]

13. Designed to use alot of big words and confuse those

Who don't have a degree in geology. Prob confuses those WITH a degree in it.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. You say "The origin of teh stupid" I say teh stoopid was designed by a higher power ($). n/t