Oil, Poseurs, Pseudoscience and Darwin

[ChemEngineer]

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.

 

[bluzman61]

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.

AND oatmeal. VERY strange, to say the least.

 

[alang1216]

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.

I'm not a geochemist so I can't give you the exact formation process but it is generally accepted that oil is derived from dead and buried plant material.

As to where this is happening today I'd say we can see the process, at least the first stages, all around us. Peat bogs are filled with organic material in an anoxic environment. There are all gradations of such material leading to coal. Coal is undisputedly formed of dead and buried plant material. Does crude oil form from coal? I don't know but it hardly seems a stretch. There are plenty of varieties of crude oil as there are of coal.

How coal and oil get buried is an easy question to answer. Look at the vast sediment deposits of the Mississippi and recall the Gulf is a major source of oil.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

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.

Where on the earth is this happening today? Nowhere.

Why not? Link?

Why didn't bacteria and fungi consume all the dead plants as they do today everywhere?

Lack of oxygen?

 

[Hollie]

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.

You’re leading up to a slew of cut and paste Bible “quotes”, right?