“So is the prehistoric oil alive, or was it alive until Adam sinned, and after that it died?”
There have been industrial successes in even converting waste into usable oil within 2-3 days, nor does even the non-artificial processes within the Earth require ages of time to do so.
For example, on the “recent origin of Bass Strait oil and gas”:
“When endeavouring to correlate their vitrinite reflectance and geothermal gradient measurements from the various exploration wells, Shibaoka et al.5 found that the best explanation of differences was disequilibrium caused by recent rapid subsidence of the sediments. However, this disequilibrium not only indicates a recent rapid event, but an incomplete one. Thus, since the sediments are still subsiding, new exinite and vitrinite in the sediments are constantly being carried down into the oil and gas generating zones. As a result Shibaoka et al.5 concluded that ‘hydrocarbon generation must be occurring strongly at the present time with the products migrating relatively rapidly either into traps or to the surface.’ This conclusion is consistent with the facts that (a) the hydrocarbon traps under Bass Strait were full when discovered, and (b) most of the oil in the reservoirs was low in sulphur5 indicating it has not been extensively altered by bacterial or other processes.
The above evidence alone indicates recent rapid burial of the coal-bearing sediments followed by rapid generation of hydrocarbons and very rapid migration of oil and gas into traps. This is clearly contrary to the popular concepts of slowly forming coal bearing sediments and oil formations.”
http://creation.com/the-recent-origin-of-bass-strait-oil-and-gas
Good points all GPH - they are also discussed here - See items 12 thru 19 of my original post in #9 of this thread for
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
Also donmeaker, human DNA is approx 3 billion coded sequences of A, C, T, & G - the number of intelligent [not random] changes required to go from any one life form to any other are astronomical. More molecules [10 to the 40th power] exist in the entire universe than all the time required for anything to macro-evolve at the present observed rates of change. Billions no, not even trillions of years are simply not enough time - evolution is a major facical hoax...
Even Darwin himself claimed if one does not find thousands upon thousands of transitional fossils in the gelogic record then his theory completely falls apart.
So the fact that water can be created now by oxidation of Hydrogen means that there was no prehistoric water, by your logic.
Right. Sure. Uh-huh.
If you want to assert there was no prehistoric water, then you have to come up with a reason why carbon 14 dating works and doesn’t work. It works on historic artifacts, but you must come up with a reason why it wouldn’t work on prehistoric artifacts.
And then you have to come up with a reason why it aligns so well with other dating methods.