Re: [asa] Latest YEC claim

The first part of this is an argument that oil could have been formed in a short period of time, & says nothing about the possibility that it could have happened over millions of years. The last sentence, however, jumps to the conclusion that therefore we know that the earth is young and that oil didn't take millions of years to form.

More & more YEC reminds me of Ehrenfest's description of the Hegelian dialectic: "A leap from one falsehood to another by means of intervening lies."

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: john burgeson
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 3:13 PM
  Subject: [asa] Latest YEC claim

  Here is the latest YEC claim.

  Leftover Turkey? Turn It Into Oil!
  In 1971 scientists learned how to turn sewage into oil in just twenty minutes using heat and pressure. Now, a lab in Texas shows that even the scraps from your Thanksgiving turkey is a great way to make oil in just half an hour.

  Evolutionists suggest that oil comes from organic material, such as dinosaurs, that were buried and compressed for millions of years under immense pressure. However, more laboratory research continues to prove that it can be formed in much shorter amounts of time.

  Creationists agree that oil came from organic material, but it was during Noah's Flood that billions of plants and animals were buried by mud and water squishing them into oil. This happened just 4,400 years ago, not millions of years ago.
  The presence of oil in the earth is just more proof that the Bible is scientifically accurate, and that the evolution theory is last century's "leftovers."

  Kinda chokes you up, doesn't it? All these oil geologists so very wrong!

  Burgy

  www.burgy.50megs.com/miller.htm (essay on virtue ethics)

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Received on Fri Nov 23 15:48:26 2007