I have a question which you folks can probably answer:

[PCIntern]

So there's all this oil about 13000 feet under the one-mile deep ocean.
So they have drill thru 13000 feet of God-knows-what to wind up nearly four miles down from the surface...
So this is ostensibly one of the largest oil fields in the world
So this oil formed from condensed vegetation of the dead persuasion this far under bedrock
So the question of the day is:

How did all this happen in much less than 6000 years?

[Skinner]

1. You need to think like a creationist.

It did not form from condensed vegetation.

It was put there by the creator in its current form.

[PCIntern]

7. Yes...

I shall think like a Creationist, so if I step out of my window right now, He will, if appropriate, protect the poor civilian upon which I fall...or maybe there'll be angels to lift me up and back into my window...hoo nose?

[LiberalLoner]

8. LOL n/t

[tavalon]

18. Would that mean that the creator loves us or hates us?

[kestrel91316]

2. Awl was formed by Gawd on the day it was created 6000 years ago.

Cain't you read?

[Arkansas Granny]

14. At the same time that he buried all of those dinosaur bones, put

sea shell fossils on mountaintops and made the Grand Canyon.

[Tesha]

3. Gawd created it all exactly as it stands today to act as a test of your faith. (NT)

[PCIntern]

5. right..so Why TF

would He, in his Infinite Wisdom, put oil that far underground in such a way that we would have to significantly destroy His works to get to it?

So He foresaw the gasoline engine...OK...and He foresaw incompetent offshore drilling....OK...and He is teaching us another Lesson of Job...

got it!

[TransitJohn]

4. Bedrock?

No, it's all sedimentary deposition, of deep sea facies, necessarily on top of bedrock. This means that most of the kerogen source is phytoplankton.

But yeah, this doesn't support young earth creationism. :hi:

[county worker]

If God didn't want us to pollute the earth he wouldn't have put the oil there in the first place.

My only question is why didn't God refine it first?

[Fumesucker]

10. Duh!... He knew that we would need asphalt for the roads on which we ride our bikes..

[Winterblues]

11. Doesn't the Devil ever get to put stuff around the Earth?

:shrug:

[pipi_k]

12. No, that's God's job...the Devil's job involves

forcing us to do bad things with the stuff God puts here.



:evilgrin:

[chemenger]

20. He sure does. He put the Republicans, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck,

Ann Coulter, BP exsuckutives and many, many more such assholes ... just to make us :mad: and :cry: and :scared: and :crazy:

[Brickbat]

6. God sneezed as he was mixing the earth together. That's what the oil is.

[liberal N proud]

9. Divine intervention

Just as the man said.

But adding to that, this was put there so man could figure out how to use it to destroy God's creations.

[Kokonoe]

13. Just buy the Answer$ DVD for $99.98.

Send Money. It is explained on the DVD.
Hurry, send money now, God wants your money, or else.

[WeDidIt]

15. Noah's flood dun it. n/t

[pipi_k]

16. Another mystery....

Why did God create polyester leisure suits and platform shoes in the 1970s?


He must really hate us.

:cry:

[Tesha]

21. He did it to test whether we were still obeying his laws. After all, ...

...cotton/polyester blends are banned by the Book of Leviticus! Sadly,
so many disco dancing fools made the wrong choice, and so now are
condemned to burn in real Hell as well as fashion hell.

Tesha

[formercia]

17. It's Satan's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

..and old Scratch has been saving it for just this kind of occasion.

Can you smell the Fire and Brimstone yet?

[On the Road]

19. Creationists Have Two Answers:

(1) Oil and coal were formed by concentrations of vegetation that happened during the flood. Their argument is that geology we see as as the result of long-term steady-state processes can happen much more quickly during massive catastrophes. This argument does not really hold water given the scale of hydrocarbon deposits.

(2) They believe that much of earth's oil is abiogenic, meaning that is was not formed by plant life but from free nonliving carbon. This is not quite as ridiculous a suggestion, and there are a few scientists who hold this point of view. (I must admit, it would be nice if it were true.)

(3) They believe the earth was created by God millions or billions of years ago. It used to be that young-earth creationists (the 6000-year crowd) were in the minority. That may no longer be true.

There are people, believe it or not, who are attempting to interpret geological evidence in terms of a created rather than an evolved earth. I think they're nuts, but well-educated cranks have always been with us.