Fossils are found in layers when drilling for oil. The older fossils are at the bottom. The older fossils died, just as the younger ones. The pattern is repeatable every time you drill into that kind of substrate.
So is the prehistoric oil alive, or was it alive until Adam sinned, and after that it died?
“So is the prehistoric oil alive, or was it alive until Adam sinned, and after that it died?”
There have been industrial successes in even converting waste into usable oil within 2-3 days, nor does even the non-artificial processes within the Earth require ages of time to do so.
For example, on the “recent origin of Bass Strait oil and gas”:
“When endeavouring to correlate their vitrinite reflectance and geothermal gradient measurements from the various exploration wells, Shibaoka et al.5 found that the best explanation of differences was disequilibrium caused by recent rapid subsidence of the sediments. However, this disequilibrium not only indicates a recent rapid event, but an incomplete one. Thus, since the sediments are still subsiding, new exinite and vitrinite in the sediments are constantly being carried down into the oil and gas generating zones. As a result Shibaoka et al.5 concluded that ‘hydrocarbon generation must be occurring strongly at the present time with the products migrating relatively rapidly either into traps or to the surface.’ This conclusion is consistent with the facts that (a) the hydrocarbon traps under Bass Strait were full when discovered, and (b) most of the oil in the reservoirs was low in sulphur5 indicating it has not been extensively altered by bacterial or other processes.
The above evidence alone indicates recent rapid burial of the coal-bearing sediments followed by rapid generation of hydrocarbons and very rapid migration of oil and gas into traps. This is clearly contrary to the popular concepts of slowly forming coal bearing sediments and oil formations.”
http://creation.com/the-recent-origin-of-bass-strait-oil-and-gas