Oil Creation

Post date: Feb 7, 2017 10:18:36 PM

In the west we are indoctrinated to believe that oil is created by subjecting squishy fish, plankton and dinosaurs to extreme heat and pressure over immense periods of time in the absence of oxygen.

Of course, when we’re told that we are seven years old. How could we question it. Why would we question it. Adults know what they’re talking about. By the time we’re adults we have lost the ability of critical thinking and the notion of questioning something as basic as oil creation would just subject you to ridicule. And who wants that.

So consider. A catastrophic event renders everything in an area dead. All these dead bodies spread over this area are dead. Oil is easier to explain if all these dead bodies are in water so that the next linear thread of the topic unfolds. Silt in sufficient quantity covers this area to bury the dead bodies, which aren’t floating like normal dead bodies which is what our normal observation would tell us.

Covered and devoid of oxygen the bodies don’t naturally degrade into the surrounding environment but remain encapsulated and undisturbed. This improbable turn of events remains the case despite successive layers of silt and tectonic movement over millions of years where the action of pressure and heat from deep earth cooks the bodies into crude oil.

Consider the required population density of the biotic material that would have to die in this single catastrophic event to lay down a layer worthy of creating a well 65 million years later that could produce millions of barrels of crude oil. This is getting miraculous.

Consider this miraculous act repeating itself around the globe to create the many thousands of wells being mined every day by the oil industry. Oil and Gas wells exceed 65,000 with around 1,500 wells producing 94% of the worlds oil.

Consider how dry wells are producing oil after a period of non-production.

If oil was explained to me like this when I was seven, I know I would have a problem accepting it.

Given the political realisation during the 1970’s that oil use had doubled decade on decade through the 50’s and 60’s it is hard to conceive the shear number and volume of biotic material that had to survive the 65 million years to provide mankind with oil reserves. That is the countless miracles science is inviting us to accept.

Whilst Occam’s Razor isn’t applied to arbitrate between competing theories, once we become knowledgeable that there are in fact competing theories then I favour the theory that relies less on the miraculous and more on the demonstrable fact that the earth produces every other mineral and substance we currently use and abuse.

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mark@sovereign-state-fidach.com