The dating of rocks by radioactive decay and fossils is fundamental to oil exploration.
Every petroleum exploration program expends large amounts of risk capital dating rocks to discover new oil fields. Creation "Science" say such dating methods are fataly flawed.
If creation "science" is correct then such discoverys are accidental.
Why do petroleum companies spend huge amounts of money
dating these rocks if such techniques are wrong?
Why is there no creation "science" oil company using creation "science" to find petroleum?
2007-03-27 23:07:29 · 10 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Still waiting for someone to tell me why there are no creation "science" oil companies
2007-03-28 22:23:52 · update #1
Well, some of you apparently don't know about oil prospection. Oil companies DO rely on paleontology (among others) for prospection. And paleontology is very much based on evolutionary science. Especially microfossils are used to date rock layers (radiometric dating is not always available and a biostratinomic datation is so much cheaper).
In fact, in paleontology classes, I was recommended a book edited by shell. These were classes in micro paleontology.
So the asker is perfectly right when he says that oil prospection relies on evolution science.
2007-03-28 01:22:52 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Zaius 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It probably is true that they do. They aren't using evolutionary science though. Its called Geology. Just because the age of the rocks aren't right doesn't mean that they do not provide a guideline for where to locate oil. If I was looking for oil, and I found it in rocks that tended to be dated 50 billion years old, that's where I would look. Just because the age is wrong, doesn't mean that those rocks, that were determined to be 50 million years old, don't trap oil. Its a guideline, it doesn't mean that they are evolutionists.
2007-03-28 06:29:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't think that the big oil companies care much about Christianity. The question is silly. They use "Evolutionary Science" to try to find new oil fields. BUT they also spend BILLIONS on drilling holes that never produce oil! Maybe they do have the science wrong.
These days in the US most people want to replace GOD with science. It's as simple as that. People in general don't want to look at the proof. If there is a GOD, then they know they will meet Him and be judged after they die. They don't want that, so they come to the conclusion that there must not be a GOD. The moral decay in the US gets worse with every generation. Now we have security checkpoints at the schools to keep out the guns and drugs. Great. How much worse will it get unless the country repents?
2007-03-28 06:22:02 · answer #3 · answered by Hawk 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
They are not using evolutionary science, they are using science and the predictive capabilities of radio-metric dating.
Creationists do not argue the science is flawed, they argue the timeframe is biased.
Now I don't recall this is how you find oil anyway, seems to me most companies use processes such as seismology, analysis of surface geology, magnetic analysis and pilot/test holes.
2007-03-28 07:46:05 · answer #4 · answered by awayforabit 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are flawed. The geology has nothing to do with the date of rocks, more the structure etc. However if you want to go by dates, oil has already formed from the eruption of Mt St Helens and the burial of trees etc under tonnes of rubble muck and sediment which is what form the oil. If you want dates then that was only in 1980 so explain this. Two can play this "dating" game
2007-03-28 06:14:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Because dating a Christian is like dating a rock.
2007-03-28 14:58:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
XD haha! Nice one, I'm sure the religious will say that Satan decieved them into finding the oil as oil = money and money is the root of all evil... =P
2007-03-28 06:16:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Excellent point you make sir. Unfortunately, no amount of reason will impact the fundamentalist to recognize the pronounced errors in his logic.
2007-03-28 06:13:35 · answer #8 · answered by kirbyguy44 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Good point. Let's see some lame answers from the logically challenged religious folk....
2007-03-28 06:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by Desiree J 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
if my daddy or my grandaddy could strike oil we would be some rich hillbillys and my momma would tell daddy to give that money to charity and gramma would tell him to give the money to charity but uncle bobby would want to spend it.
2007-03-28 06:17:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋