Re: [asa] yec clain

What we do know is that nature destroys (leaks to the surface, etc.) far more of the oil it creates than it preserves. It's extremely inefficient. We also know that most of the world's oil comes from marine organisms such as phytoplankton.

So how can the bulk of all organic material that exists at a single moment (Flood time) give us the huge volumes of preserved oil _and_ the huge volumes of preserved coal that we know exist/have existed? To replace 14% of the annual US gasoline consumption would require converting all of the corn produced annually in the US into ethanol in the most efficient way humans know. Every year.

See how great a miracle the Flood was: it converted Flood biomass into such huge preserved volumes of coal and oil! If we were to do the numbers, that would make the multiplication implied in the loaves and fishes miracle look puny by comparison. God by destroying life off the face of the earth actually did us all a huge favor and gave nations great wealth.

: )

Don

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: john burgeson
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:50 AM
  Subject: [asa] yec clain

>>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>>

  So very many ICR claims are of this form.

  One wonders ...

  jb

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Received on Sat Nov 24 19:50:57 2007