To: Perdogg
If petroleum is derived from fossil sources, it would be fossil microorganism deposited on the sea floor for billions of years. There would not be enough volume of larger animal life to have created the vast quantities we have found.
I don't even thing that billions of years of microorganisms would do it.
There are literally oceans of oil deep underground, far below where life has EVER existed.
How do you explain THAT?
14 posted on
04/16/2011 3:59:55 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
There are literally oceans of oil deep underground, far below where life has EVER existed. Really? Where? Let's go drill them!
16 posted on
04/16/2011 4:03:45 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“There are literally oceans of oil deep underground, far below where life has EVER existed.
How do you explain THAT?
“
Especially since last time I checked, oil rises relative to surface water.
17 posted on
04/16/2011 4:05:16 PM PDT by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Couple points to make:
1. i agree that most hydrocarbons is formed deep in the earth and not from zooplankton or Phytoplankton
2. We are presently still in quaternary ice age which means the earth average temperatures are a great deal warmer for the last hundreds of millions of years. Which means a great deal more life existed on the earth then it does today.
Here is an interesting observation few people think about. Dinosaurs lived for hundreds of millions of years yet they would have all died in one typical winter season we see today.
35 posted on
04/16/2011 5:13:28 PM PDT by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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