The problem is that YEC's would have to develop their own geology from scratch. YEC claims have a huge problem with consistency. YEC geology is not developed enough to even begin to look for oil.
How would YEC geologists look for oil? At best they could copy geophysicists and look for the correct structures. Not every likely looking structure traps oil. In fact very few of them do. That is why certain paleontologists make the big bucks.
This was written by a oil geologist who was a YEC, but could no longer hold that position when he started working in oil geology. He actually contacted a few other people from the YEC movement that were also working for oil companies. This is his story.
But eventually, by 1994 I was through with young-earth creationISM. Nothing that young-earth creationists had taught me about geology turned out to be true. I took a poll of my ICR graduate friends who have worked in the oil industry. I asked them one question.
"From your oil industry experience, did any fact that you were taught at ICR, which challenged current geological thinking, turn out in the long run to be true? ,"
That is a very simple question. One man, Steve Robertson, who worked for Shell grew real silent on the phone, sighed and softly said 'No!' A very close friend that I had hired at Arco, after hearing the question, exclaimed, "Wait a minute. There has to be one!" But he could not name one. I can not name one. No one else could either. One man I could not reach, to ask that question, had a crisis of faith about two years after coming into the oil industry. I do not know what his spiritual state is now but he was in bad shape the last time I talked to him.
http://glennmortonspages.wikispaces...+Testimony+Why+I+Left+Young-Earth+Creationism
"From your oil industry experience, did any fact that you were taught at ICR, which challenged current geological thinking, turn out in the long run to be true? ,"
That is a very simple question. One man, Steve Robertson, who worked for Shell grew real silent on the phone, sighed and softly said 'No!' A very close friend that I had hired at Arco, after hearing the question, exclaimed, "Wait a minute. There has to be one!" But he could not name one. I can not name one. No one else could either. One man I could not reach, to ask that question, had a crisis of faith about two years after coming into the oil industry. I do not know what his spiritual state is now but he was in bad shape the last time I talked to him.
http://glennmortonspages.wikispaces...+Testimony+Why+I+Left+Young-Earth+Creationism
YEC is incapable of describing the real world.
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