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Crude oil drives the world economy. Ships transport cargo with its derivatives. Aircraft ply the skies everywhere while burning distilled hydrocarbons mined from the earth. Cars, motorcycles, engines all use it and lubricate with it. And impressionable children in school have been told for decades that this crude was produced by pressure on dead plants long ago. We have been conditioned to accept what we are told in school and we have done so.
There is not the slightest reason to believe that pressure on cellulose (dead plants) converts C6H10O5 to
C8H18 (octane), C12H24 (diesel fuel), CH4 (natural gas or methane), naptha, kerosene and the many other components which combine to make crude oil.
Where on the earth is this happening today? Nowhere.
How did it then occur in the past? Why didn't bacteria and fungi consume all the dead plants as they do today everywhere?
How did these fantastic crude oil and gas reserves found around the world become buried under miles of earth and rock? Under oceans? This is no trivial question to be brushed away with a wave of the all-knowing hand of a poseur, pretending to know *science* such as Darwin's Tautology. (It's fit because it survives and it survives because it's fit. "Selection" magic.)
No alternative theory is necessary. Let's simply be honest, at long last, and say what is really true, that we have absolutely no idea how crude oil got where it is, in all its majestic functionality and value.
There is not the slightest reason to believe that pressure on cellulose (dead plants) converts C6H10O5 to
C8H18 (octane), C12H24 (diesel fuel), CH4 (natural gas or methane), naptha, kerosene and the many other components which combine to make crude oil.
Where on the earth is this happening today? Nowhere.
How did it then occur in the past? Why didn't bacteria and fungi consume all the dead plants as they do today everywhere?
How did these fantastic crude oil and gas reserves found around the world become buried under miles of earth and rock? Under oceans? This is no trivial question to be brushed away with a wave of the all-knowing hand of a poseur, pretending to know *science* such as Darwin's Tautology. (It's fit because it survives and it survives because it's fit. "Selection" magic.)
No alternative theory is necessary. Let's simply be honest, at long last, and say what is really true, that we have absolutely no idea how crude oil got where it is, in all its majestic functionality and value.