RE: [asa] Rebuttals?

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> Sorry have not posted for a while. I would like to know how best to
> rebut this. NO background in geology (Or oil!) am afraid.
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> iain
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> Origin of petroleum: proof of young earth
>
>
> It is apparent that the massive sediment beds that yield the
> billions of
> barrels of crude oil so much in demand today had to have been laid
> down very
> quickly during an extreme catastrophe. Creationists have for
> decades pointed to
> the millions of square miles of thick layers of sedimentary rock
> as evidence
> of a global catastrophe. The only catastrophe that was capable of
> producing
> such continent wide geological phenomena is the worldwide flood
> described in
> Genesis.
>
> The worldwide flood of Noah's day involved trillions of tons of
> water
> flowing over the continents sweeping away forests, swamps and
> prairies. This
> organic matter was mixed with huge amounts of eroded sediments and
> rapidly laid
> down over vast distances.
>
>
> The duty of an objective scientist is go where the facts lead. The
> facts of
> petroleum geology clearly point to young earth and to the global
> catastrophe
> which was the biblical flood of Noah's day.
>
> Bill in New Hampshire

I like how they prejudice their claims by saying what any petroleum Geologists will tell you. Most of my drilling has been on reservoir rocks that were formed in warm, shallow, and very low energy, marine environments. I had several wells drilled through huge pinnacle reefs. It took a long time just for the reefs to grow to such a magnificent size. Any high energy catastrophe occurring while the reef was growing would have destroyed it. Since these flood geologists claim that the entirety of the geologic record was laid down during the flood, these reefs that are observed well within the record, should not even have had a chance to grow, much less exist at all. You cannot have a slow growing reef going on about its business, as it grows it's colony, all the while a maelstrom is going on all around it.

Also note, while conventional geology can predict how these reefs are oriented to allow for further exploration of additional reef formations, Flood Geology cannot predict anything and is utterly worthless. I have also drilled several wells in the Austin Chalk, part of the former (cretaceous) continental shelf of the Texas Gulf coast. This chalk also formed very slowly by single celled animals, such as foraminifera, living near the surface, warm and very low energy, then dying and their tests (shells) settling out on the shelf floor. It is readily apparent that this is a very low energy occurrence by observing how well they are sorted. Glenn Morton has a great page illustrating this.

http://home.entouch.net/dmd/limehash.htm
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/micro.htm

Check out the other links on that page's header.

I have drilled Ellenburger wells in west central Texas. The Ellenburger should not exist if it was deposited by a Global Flood.

http://home.entouch.net/dmd/ellenburger.htm

Other features that should not exist within the geologic record if it was deposited by a global flood. Evaporites, foot prints, fragile features found whole such as nests, rain drop impressions, desert sand dunes, desiccation cracks, or any other feature that occurs from long periods of arid climates. There is so much they ignore, and I am sure do not want any layperson of their fold finding out. They also ignore what marks a global flood would leave. For AIG to not consider basic geology, they are charlatans, liars, willfully ignorant, or whatever, just to adhere to a false doctrine. They are an apologetics ministry lying for Jesus, they are not doing real geology. All they while saying, "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

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Received on Sat Aug 30 14:58:50 2008