[editor-surveyor]

“Industry is free to hire YEC geologists to help in oil exploration; but they do not because YEC is not a predictive science”

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You are simply out of your mind!

There are few in oil exploration that are not rock solid creationists. Most are rock ribbed Baptists.

[Christian_Capitalist]

“Industry is free to hire YEC geologists to help in oil exploration; but they do not because YEC is not a predictive science” ~~ You are simply out of your mind! There are few in oil exploration that are not rock solid creationists. Most are rock ribbed Baptists.

See, I thought as much, given the few "oil guys" I know myself.

BUT, that's an admittedly small and anecdotal sample, so I happily defer to your better knowledge of the tribe; that's one industry I've never worked in, or even near.