Since the earth is 11,000 years old, where did oil come from?

Question

How about fossils?

Answer 1

Hi.....

Oil came from 'gods' hair, he hadn't washed it for sometime!

Fossils are dead head-lice that fell from his hair, after he washed it!!!

I thought 'everyone' knew that!!??

I'm not bothered if you don't believe me....

Because I've got 'my' belief and 'faith' and don't try to make me not believe, cos i 'know' its true, cos i read a book that says so!!!

The Earth is 'not' 11,000 years old!

Its 10,999 years old!!

How do i know this?

Because that same book told me!!!



LOL.

Answer 2

actually the world is a lot older then that some say its at least a million years old maybe older.. but Oil is broken down or decayed organic material... most likely plant life from back in the Cruistascious period or when the dinosaurs where on the planet.. see plate-tectonics shift and move around.. sometimes.. a number of animals fall in the cracks.. an get crushed into the ground.. same with plants as well.. which Coal is possibly old trees/or other harder organic compounds that either erosion placed it under ground such as avalanches or earth quake would cover up them an they would sit under a large amount of weight density.. which would extract/compress certain compounds of material out of the wood/other organic life and cause the material to change into gas/liquids/other materials

Answer 3

Um, there are other views on this. See the link below. Your question appears to rely on an implied universal rate of oil formation. However, if that assumption is incorrect, or at best inconclusive, the supposed conundrum presented by your question does not succeed in casting doubt on a young earth. You need to look somewhere else for your "giant-killer." Sorry.

Answer 4

Creationists say that the the fossils and oil were formed during the Global flood. It seems that they refuse to believe the evidence that is before there eyes. That the earth is Billions of years old.

Answer 5

I'm not so sure I'm in the young earth camp.
But if it were only 11k years old, that wouln't be a problem for the presence of oil and fossils. First, consider the huge oil deposits that have been found. The "millions of years" explanation for their making is utter nonsense. Likewise, it doesn't require huge periods of time for fossils to be made. Those long time explanations were merely made up to support a particular view.

whatever the case, existence of oil and fossils helps neither side in arguing over young or old earth.

Answer 6

Oil, coal and fossils were formed in the great flood of Noah around 4400 years ago. It does not take great periods of time to form these...only the right conditions of pressure and temperature as well as rapid burial which is what ocurred in the Flood. Science can create oil and coal in less than a year.
http://www.creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=51

Answer 7

Oil is the run off of the biodegrading civilizations before us. Thats where fossils come from too.. ;-)

Answer 8

NOWHERE in the Bible will you find anything telling you that the earth is 6000 OR 11000 years old. That' MAN's conjecture. Specifically Bishop Usher, a CATHOLIC cleric. Why Protestants defend that medieval man's OPINION to the death is beyond me.

But it is interesting that astronomers HAVE found petrochemicals in interstellar space...

Answer 9

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Man can only speculate as to when this beginning was.

The Universe or heavens 20 billion years old. The planet Earth, 4.6 billion years old. The Moon 200 to 300 million years younger than the Earth. Dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. The Ice Age 2.5 million years ago. The oldest evidence of flesh man 7,000 to 14,000 years old.

Answer 10

Where in the heck did you get the idea that the earth is only 11,000 years old. The earth is billions of years old. Have you never heard of pre-cambrian? Wow, you rally need to use google and look some things up.