[Berlin_Freeper]

I may not be the brightest bulb but didn't the stuff that was there 65 million years ago *become* the oil we burn today?

At any rate, I suppose the dinosaurs are the lucky ones. At least they never got stuck in traffic on the way to/from work.

[El Sordo]

Oil deposits are allegedly largely from the Carboniferous era and predates dinosaur be a lot of millions of years.

Or so I have read...

[In veno, veritas]

How long until we read about the dinosaur's industrial age which caused global warming and their own extinction?

[The KG9 Kid]

Stupid meteor. Wasting our oil.

[Brilliant]

Maybe the meteorite was made of oil.

[Tigercap]

Bush’s fault darn it.

[JRandomFreeper]

At least they never got stuck in traffic on the way to/from work.

Being EATEN on the way to/from work was a different matter. ;)

/johnny

[kennyboy509]

Damn.

Thats gonna drive up oil prices again.

[CougarGA7]

It's all a conspiracy man!! A lie from big tobacco.

[pke]

65 million years ago...that’s when oil was only $97 a barrel.

[ClearCase_guy]

"In many places the presence of such material is taken as evidence as the presence of human activities," says Brassell.

I'm not going to push this, since I'm sure I'm over-reaching, but ...

When they find material which is often taken as evidence of human activities, and when that evidence seems to be from 65 million years ago, does that suggest in anyway that the dating methods may be off?

One of the classic retorts against Creationism or ID is "If we find homo sapiens in a coal bed, maybe we'll rethink the dating, but that has never happened."

Well ...

[Eaglefixer]

There is a theory pursued by the Russians that oil is not a fossil fuel at all but is generated deep under the crust my microbes. As evidence some oil wells in the gulf which were thought depleted have resurged.

[puppypusher]

OH No.So they’re telling us that oil has been polluting the earth since time before the Dinasaurs went extinct.

I wonder if big oil had anything to do with that.

[NewJerseyJoe]

Waitaminit........ so, according to this theory, there was massive burning of fossil fuels — which, according to today’s enviro-whackos, causes global warming. But the evolutionists also say that the dinosaurs were wiped out because the earth cooled because of a global dust cloud from the meteor, don’t they?

[Domandred]

but didn't the stuff that was there 65 million years ago *become* the oil we burn today

That was conventional wisdom for a while. Not so sure anymore as Titan Has More Oil Than Earth is a little hard to explain by dead dinos and plants.

[GingisK]

The dinosaur-killing Chicxulub meteor might have ignited an oilfield rather than forests when it slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago...

I guess that stupid theory that dinosaurs and the plants they ate didn't turn into oil after all.

[Fractal Trader]

GGG ping

[Sax]

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - I have seen reports completely discounting this theory. Hmm?

[SunkenCiv]

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