Geology

[JohnR7]

Does the coal, oil, limestone and sediment deposits show that the earth is more than 15,000 years old? Or were they created in the flood that took place around 4400 years ago. When the earth was only about 1700 years old? In other words, could that much coal, oil, limestone, and sediment be created in a 1700 year period of time?

 

[lucaspa]

Does the coal, oil, limestone and sediment deposits show that the earth is more than 15,000 years old? Or were they created in the flood that took place around 4400 years ago. When the earth was only about 1700 years old? In other words, could that much coal, oil, limestone, and sediment be created in a 1700 year period of time?

Well, do the calculations yourself. How much oil have we pumped out of the ground? How much plant material does it take to make a gallon of oil? How much plant material could be on the planet on the day Noah's Flood started?

All this information is available with a quick Google search. Why don't you do one, perform the calculations, and let us know what you found?

 

[Extirpated Wildlife]

I think there has to be some consideration to how did God create the earth. Im not talking about a completely instant *poof* and there was oil. The earth, i don't believe was a complete flat surface when Adam and Eve were created. How high was the tallest mountain, there is no way for us to know. But God had already created all chemicals compounds and everything needed for what we have today. I don't think it is any stretch of the imagination to think that God could have created the oil deposits in the process of making earth.

I'm also not saying the earth has to be less than 7000 years. What i would like to know i geologically can they tell where all the oil deposits came from?

 

[JohnR7]

How high was the tallest mountain, there is no way for us to know.

Mountains can only get so high with what we know about gravity today. The natural laws could have been different. But there is no reason to think that they were.

[/QUOTE]I'm also not saying the earth has to be less than 7000 years. What i would like to know i geologically can they tell where all the oil deposits came from? [/QUOTE]

Oil, coal, limestone, come from living organisms.

 

[lucaspa]

I think there has to be some consideration to how did God create the earth. Im not talking about a completely instant *poof* and there was oil. The earth, i don't believe was a complete flat surface when Adam and Eve were created. How high was the tallest mountain, there is no way for us to know. But God had already created all chemicals compounds and everything needed for what we have today. I don't think it is any stretch of the imagination to think that God could have created the oil deposits in the process of making earth.

I'm also not saying the earth has to be less than 7000 years. What i would like to know i geologically can they tell where all the oil deposits came from?

What we are trying to figure out is how God created the earth. Theistic evolution states that God created by the processes discovered by science. Creation Science says God did not use those processes but essentially did "poof" or form things in their present form. You seem to be going for the latter mechanism.

Genesis 2 states that the location of Eden is given by post-Flood rivers (after all, Genesis was written after the Flood). If the Bible is history, that means that pre-Flood geography had to be the same as post-Flood geography, including the heights of the mountains. After all, the Ark is said to have come to rest on Mt. Arrarat, so at least that mountain range was the same size or bigger before the Flood than after.

Also remember that, according to Flood Geology, ALL that sedimentary rock comes from erosion of the land features before the Flood. Since that sedimentary rock is tens of miles thick in places, that means that part of the surface of the earth had to have been tens of miles higher than today.

Now, IF God created the oil deposits as we see them now, that becomes part of the Appearance of Age argument. The problem with this is that it turns God into a part-time deceiver. All the oil deposits look like they come from decaying plant material subjected to thousands or millions of years of heat and pressure. Now, if they were all not made that way but created them by some other way -- what exact method did you have in mind if not a "poof"? -- then God deceived us. Not good. Since we know God is not a deceiver, then we know that the oil had to form just how they appear to have formed.

How old do you think the earth is? If tens or hundreds of millions of years, then you have oil formed just the way it appears to have formed.

If younger than about 300 million years ago, then you do have to have God forming the oil and coal by some means other than it appears to have formed. Why would God lie to us like that in His Creation?

 

[worddigger]

Does the coal, oil, limestone and sediment deposits show that the earth is more than 15,000 years old? Or were they created in the flood that took place around 4400 years ago. When the earth was only about 1700 years old? In other words, could that much coal, oil, limestone, and sediment be created in a 1700 year period of time?

You might consider examining the material on this website's page:

http://www.kjvbible.org/sediment.html