I remember reading an article in a magazine, way before the Internet, that said there could not have been enough plants and animals on the Earth, even taking into account a billion years, to account for the amount of petroleum being pumped out of the ground.
While coal is definitely a ‘fossil fuel’, you can actually see imprints of plants in it, petroleum is not.
Science has never fully explained just where liquid petroleum comes from, and how it got ‘down there’ in the first place.................
Well, that’s an easy one! God put it there in the first place, then gave us the brains and talent to figure out how to use it to our benefit. ;)
Still working on why He felt SNAKES were necessary. And, Mosquitoes! ;)
I remember a geologist calling into Rush’s show one time. He explained that crude oil was the byproduct of thermonuclear activity taking place in the Earth’s (core or mantel? I forget.) and that its creation was continuous. His explanation made a heck of a lot more sense than dinosaur grease.