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It’s strange that any of us ever believed that (dinosaur/oil) fantasy in the first place. I guess they fed it to us early enough in school when most of us never asked too many questions. How would have the “remains” of those dinosaurs gotten so deeply into the earth where the oil is now?

Oil is believed to be "organic" because it rotates light slightly to the left and because it contains molecules that are believed to be biogenic. Gold maintained that the levorotatory nature of petroleum is due to contamination of these molecules that do, indeed, come from a biological origin, from microbes that live on the petroleum and/or methane at depth underground. He showed this through the drilling in Sweden in the meteorite crater that yielded petroleum that was laden with magnetite crystals of a probable biological origin.