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Posted on 03/03/2014 8:34:19 AM PST by fishtank
Rapidly Forming Oil Supports Flood Timeframe
Tim Clarey
My earlier Acts & Facts article “Oil, Fracking, and a Recent Global Flood” dealt with the origin of hydrocarbons and the oil generation process. This article will examine the timing of oil and gas generation and their migration into reservoirs. Unfortunately, the scientific information communicated to the public is slanted by pro-evolutionary rhetoric. The occurrence of oil is even used as an argument against a recent global flood. Evolutionist David Montgomery insists all sedimentary rocks could not have formed during the year-long Flood, arguing that “a literal reading of the Bible requires that such rocks already existed at the time of the Flood because bitumen, the pitch or tar Noah used to caulk the ark (Genesis 6:14), comes from sedimentary rock.”2
However, as Dr. Henry M. Morris III pointed out, the Hebrew word used in this verse, kopher, doesn’t literally translate as “pitch.” He stated, “The word is used 17 times in the Old Testament, and is translated ‘pitch’ only in Genesis 6:14. Most of the time, kopher is translated with some term that represents money.”3 It seems that kopher was some sort of expensive (hence the possible reference to money) sheathing or covering that was placed over the wood of the Ark. Dr. Morris added that “the kopher that sheathed or coated the Ark is not specified….The idea that kopher was liquid is merely assumed….Even if the material was a liquid coating, the development of resins or other non-petroleum coating materials has long been known to man.”
... deeply buried marine algal and planktonic deposits that were disseminated in the sediments (source rocks) began to heat up, reaching the geothermal gradients we observe today. How quickly did this heating occur, and how rapidly was oil generated? ...
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Yet creationists miss/ignore that big flood written about in Genesis 1:2. The dinos were already long gone when Noah built the ark. So logically speaking it was 'pitch' that Noah literally used.
I thought most all our oil was formed from abiogenic processes deep within the earths crust from trapped Methane being compressed by heat and pressure and not from Evolutionist Dinosaurs or Creationists Floods.
So if oil was created in the flood then it is most certainly a fixed finite resource and “peak oil” is a “Correct theory”.
OIL IS A RENEWABLE RESOURCE
Do you mean that flood like condition before life even existed?
I have posted this many times. When I was in college my buddies from the petroleum and natural gas school would laugh when anyone called oil a fossil fuel. This was in the late 70’s.
A “research” that starts from a conclusion is useless.
According to humans, the Earth is only 6000 years old. Nothing existed past that. Even though dinosaurs existed and looked like giant lizards and roamed the earth in the billions they were actually demons that could change into human shape. There was not any weather as we know it today. It never rained anywhere or snowed. Only mist from the ground came up to water the plants.
Unless the conclusion is correct.
Population of the PreFlood World
Is all that fossil fuel really great, great, etc. grandpa? ;-)
We are not given a 'date' when Genesis 1:1 took place. What is declared next in Genesis 1:2 is the casting down - overthrow of the first rebel... as described in Isaiah 14:12- and Ezekiel 28:12--. Peter as well describes this casting down - overthrow in IIPeter 3 using the phrase the 'world that was'.
This earth is filled with the evidence that time past, before Noah, something globally catastrophic took place upon this earth. Everything from super volcanoes, earthquakes to meters hitting this earth left marks that something 'big' happened before Noah. And Genesis 1:2 describes a flood.
Further, 'life' as per human is described in the formation of the flesh man Adam. Adam was not living until the breath of life which means soul was breathed into his nostrils.
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