Creationists: If "prehistoric" remains create oil, than why is it a limited resource?

Question

Supposing everything "prehistoric" is constantly regenerated since it wasn't that long ago....

Oil must form quickly, why is it "limited" and when it's gone, it's gone?

If what your saying is true, that the earth was created only 6000 years ago, how was oil formed and why is it that it will run out and not be replenished?

Answer 1

Yer funny.

Answer 2

I am not a creationist myself, definitely an evolutionist, but I have to tell you that your argument has very little logic to it. Presumable a creationist would argue that the oil was created along with everything else therefore once it is gone, it's gone. Even if they accepted that oil did come from prehistoric remains and therefore must only have taken a couple of thousand years to create, we've only really been using it in any quantity in the last couple of hundred years, so if it's all used up in the next 50 or so, it's not much comfort to know that we only have to wait another 2 or 3 thousand for some more really is it.

Answer 3

Gary, evolution is NOT a theory. Theory in science means the whole body of work and knowledge pertaining to a subject, it doesn't mean "It might be real" like regular people (mostly uneducated Christians) think it does.

To the asker of the question, I don't think they can answer this. The problem is that they believe everything on this earth was put there for mankinds pleasure and use. Which is probably why the world has no many problems right now. Mankind is slowly destroying the planet because the dominant religion can't get it through their thick skull.

Answer 4

Oil is created when something is held under extreme pressure. The Flood in Genesis is what caused the pressure to turn the "prehistoric" remains into oil. Because it was on such a large scale, we ended up with large amounts of oil. Oil can be reproduced in laboratories; however, the process is too expensive to be used commercially.
Why will it not be replenished? We would have to have a massive amount of pressure hit the earth and turn organic material into oil. If this happens, then the oil supplies would be replenished. However, you likely will not care, since you will probably be some of the organic material that becomes the oil.

On a side note, new technologies that enable us to pump up oil once thought to be too hard has kept us out of an oil crisis in the past. We have always been "running out of oil". Newer technologies will surface, and the oil problem won't be as bad as the hype makes it out to be.

Answer 5

"Oil is formed primarily out of vegetation that was quickly covered by earth." Why is there so much of it and why is it under the Oceans all around the planet and in the Mountains and Valleys and DEEP underneath or just near the surface? How much Vegetation would have to degrade in to "oil" (I thought trees and shrubs just rotted in to dirt and recycled itself that way) to account to the great supply there seems to be? How old would plant life have to actually be (how long have plants been around) in order to account for oil's abundance on this Planet?

Answer 6

Interesting question. I have wondered about how all this works. My questions were -- 1) With all the billions and billions of barrels of oil buried underground, have there ever been, throughout the millions of year of earth history, enough living plant and animal matter to account for all that oil 2) Almost all the oil reserves are EXTREMELY deeply buried within the earth. How would it have been possible for that much plant and animal matter to have been deposited so deeply?

I asked this question of a geologist once. He looked at me and said 1) No. There has not been enough plant and animal matter present over these millions of years to account for the amount of oil we have used and are still in reserve. 2) It cannot be explained how all these reserves got so deeply buried.

So I asked him, "so how do you explain all this?" He said he believed that the world was created by God WITH THESE RESERVES ALREADY BURIED DEEPLY WITHIN THE EARTH! God knew that as our knowledge increased throughout the history of the world that we would need varying sources of energy to use as our technology became more sophisticated.

He believes that if the world continues to exist into the next thousand years, that God has already put in place the next form of energy that we will "discover" how to harness.

So he actually believes that the theory of oil being created by decomposition and pressure of organic material cannot fully explain the oil reserves we have and their location. Interesting, huh?

Answer 7

If it's running out shouldn't we be focused on something we should have done long ago with our tech? Nikola Tesla created an energy w/o the need for oil but was suppressed. I heard Russia has been forming this 'electomagnetic' energy that is vast and powerful. See 'scalar' weapons for more info.

Answer 8

That's an original one, isn't it? I never thought of that, and haven't seen it elsewhere on the net. Too bad most of what you will get in response is morons bent on converting you.

EDIT: Mambo64, that's the carboniferous. Are you trying to imply that the great flood could have done it? You really haven't got a clue how long it takes for that vegetation to go to crude oil, do you?

Answer 9

The earth is very old . . . I am an old earth Creationist . . .

There are different camps inside Christendom

(you are right about the rotting debris and carcasses that are the basis for the formation of crude oil. etc - and the millions of years etc)

Answer 10

I guess the argument is that we shouldn't be using oil. The only way it makes sense is if it was never meant to be used. We use oxygen and mechanisms are set about to convert CO2 to O2 to keep an endless supply. There is no such mechanism for fossil fuels. Obviously we figured ventured into unplanned areas with this one.

Answer 11

Good luck with getting a sensible answer to this one.

They'd (creationists) would much rather believe the word of proven fraudsters over actual scientists.

They always come across as the three monkeys