Re: [asa] yec clain

Don,
You've been reasoning, like the disciples before the feeding of the 5000
and 4000. All you need is a miracle.
Dave

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:50:02 -0800 "Don Winterstein"
<dfwinterstein@msn.com> writes:
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 23:54:01 2007