Problem with the age of the Earth.?

Question

Geologists view crude oil and natural gas as the product of compression and heating of ancient organic materials over millions of years...

But if the earth is only 6000 years old, how can we possibly have oil? And if God "just made it" why doesn't he just make more?

I DON'T think the earth is just 6000 years old you idiots.

Answer 1

A thousand years to us is a blink of the eye to God. His years are measured the same as our years are.

Answer 2

why make more when we have more then we really think we have if you go to an abanded oil well i have no dought there is still oil there but some places thats not always true

i live in indiana and believe it or not but we have oil pumps pumping oil almost ever day and they have been there longer than i can remember

in canada there is plenty of oil but the oil companies don't want to waste their time and spending a little money to get through the rock and scientist (who ever studies oil and so forth) say there is 8 times more oil than the middle east

then again it doesnt matter since Jesus is coming back soon anyhow
which he will

by the way carbon dating sucks horriblely
some christian scientist ( which i truly believe are wrong in what they say as i do any scientist) give an expert scietist 2 penguin feathers to carbon date he got the results and said they was thousands of years difference but they told him it was from the same penguin and died in a very hot climate

Answer 3

Well you are on the right track. Whoever taught you that the earth was only 6 thousand years old has not considered that the dinosaurs are carbon dated millions of years old. The skull found in Africa called Lucy by those who discovered her date that human species 10 million years old, and a recent find is older still. Maybe the written records of the biblical hero's is only 6,ooo years old. God can do anything and can certainly create anything in a twinkling of an eye so why would it even take him 6,000 years.
I'm glad to see you have at least stepped out of the box to see that oil would take more than 6,ooo years to form from dead plants and animals.
Why does it matter how long it took? Read the Book of Urantia, gives dates and times. Urantia means Earth!
Rev. TomCat

Answer 4

Ok. I'm not going to write about the inaccuracy of carbon dating beyond 4000 years, as there are enough answers written on this and it’s really easy to find info on it on the Internet.
Noah's flood covered the Earth in sediment and carved out huge rivers and gullies in very short periods of time (a canyon (I think it was 1/3 the size of the Grand Canyon) was created in a week when a volcano erupted. Check the Internet and you'll find stacks of similar stories). This also means that huge amounts of dirt and rock and stuff compressed organic material very quickly and I would like to point out that there are fossils of animals that were created while the animal was GIVING BIRTH, obviously in a very short period of time these animals were fossilised.
With regard to oil: In Australia scientists have made oil in 30 minutes in lab conditions. Also Australian oil is considered 'too young' by 'millions of years' but we still pump it out and use it so I guess that means it’s still usable.
Put it another way: If you walk into caves and hear the slow drip, drip, drip of water 'forming' stalactites then it is easily believable that it would take 'millions of years' to form them but evolutionary scientists believe that the moon has slowly changed its orbit around the Earth and dragged the ocean over the different continents (that’s why there are fossilised sea shells in the middle of landlocked deserts for instance) but if this were the case (or Noah's flood is true) then massive amounts of water would have flowed through these caves and could cause these rock formations in a matter of minutes. Evolutionary scientists tell us that everything on the Earth has been consistent in its growth (like the 'millions of years' for oil, the 'thousands of years per foot' of various rock formations, the 'millions of years' for canyons like the Grand Canyon, the 'millions' or 'billions of years' for carbon dating. And so forth, but then they tell us some small inconsistency (like a change in the moons orbit) and we aren't allowed to consider the effect that this would have on the 'consistency' of these methods?
Genesis is literal, the only 'records' we have to dispute it come from a theory that erosion has been consistent for 'millions of years' and that’s why its taken so long.
As for light reaching us from further than 6000 light-years distant? Read up on the theory of 'curved space' Einstein believed that gravity would play a huge part on how time passed (this was shown when two atomic clocks were sent around the world in opposite directions and came back with slightly different times on them even though they were synchronised before they were sent out) This would mean that gravity curves through space could slow down or speed up even light and easily explain why there is such discrepancies between star distances (especially when the 'age of the universe' is correlated with the 'age' of the oldest known star (why is the oldest star older than the universe?)).

Answer 5

The problem in this debate is the geology of the Earth.
The planet's strata, we are told by evolutionary scientists, were laid down over millions of years, while creationist scientists have been able to replicate the strata in as little as a few weeks, months, or years.

So for crude oil, what happens if the process of making crude is as accelerated as the laying down of layers of the earth?

And the debate continues...

Answer 6

Because it doesn't take millions of years if you have enough pressure on it right away. It would take millions of years to layer enough dirt and rock on top of the material to give enough pressure to convert the stuff to oil. But if it were layered instantly, there would be enough pressure and heat to make it in a lot less time. Plus all that stuff would have to be buried without oxygen. It seems more likely to turn into dirt over time and less likely to happen than the method of instant burial and compression.

Answer 7

There is evidence to show that the world is much younger than science claims, Charmer:

They depend on the constancy of the speed of light and R14 decay, but these are not constants, light is slowing and R14 has not reached equilibrium levels yet.

Science tells us the coal formations and gas were formed simultaneously, but their timing is in error.

Dr. Robert Gentry's works on radioisotopes in granite during neucleosynthesis and compressed radioactive halos show an instant creation, and coal formation within a year--unbelievable, but true. See the evidence at www.halos.com

Also, when one breaks a Bible code, it tells of Bible chronology. See: www.revelado.org/revealed.htm. That link also explains the error in C14 dating.

Blessings, Balaam

Answer 8

God never created the earth, he created a universe, earth just happens to be in it just like all the other planets and stars, man has never had the ability to go beyond a book, and science is proving that every day, as intelligent religious man is he has never shown a lot of common sense.

Answer 9

And you think after man with his automobiles pollutes all the O2 in the air that God should give man some more!

God gave you.

If one day when the OIL is almost used up if we find that REFINING 100 barrles of oil produces 1 vaccination against cancer, but we are almost out of oil, what will people think.

They will HATE those who blew it out their tail pipes!

No one know why there is oil. We just found a silly use for it and in 200-300 years it will ALL be used up and if we can't find an alternative, it's back to bicycles and horses!

And, of course, OPEC is going to have to figure out how to make $$$ with Fallafel!

Answer 10

If one is making reference to the Jews holy text and their first man Adam as the date of of beginning remember : when a person attempts to make a model of anything the first few sets usually are not what you wanted but you continue till you get what is desired, Adam was the first man Did it actually say on the earth/ In the garden? GEN it said multiply and REPLENISH the earth - to replenish means that it once was full and needed to be filled yet again. If one reads the text closely and tries to learn and understand there are many things to learn " read, study, understand. "

Answer 11

Modern geologists consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.567 billion years (4.567×109 years). This age represents a compromise between the interpretations of oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples.

I think you need to do more research before you question about God's plans.