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Clearly? How so?

I'm aware of theories that oil may be mineral in origin but it seems more likely that it's material buried in the great flood.

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Well duh!

If Sodom and Gomorra were burned by flaming bitumen, and this happened before The Flood, then bitumen/oil had to exist before The Flood.

Or are you asserting the God himself couldn’t make oil before The Flood?