Re: Origin of oil
Posted by cougar on Feb 18, 2002 at 09:08
(67.40.117.98)Re: New Discoveries Hint at Oil Forever ! (Mike Kremer)
Interesting. I don't know much about this question, but I'd keep an open mind on the matter. Another explanation of why oil is turning up "where it shouldn't be" -- Don't liquids - and even solids - move around quite a bit beneath the earth's surface? I just spent a few days at Arches Nat'l Park, and many of the formations there were caused (or assisted) by salt being compressed underground, causing it to move along the strata. I'll wait for the summary report on the conference. :^)
But about Velikovsky "....who predicted 50 years ago, (and was ostracized thereafter) that hydrocarbons found on Earth may have come from the planet Jupiter, an idea that he based upon biblical, egyptian papirii and other ancient manuscript texts. His hunch that hydrocarbons would be found on Jupiter was proven correct many years later, using satellite data."
Uh, right, but his prediction that "hydrocarbons found on Earth may have come from the planet Jupiter" was not correct, just like most of his other hare-brained "predictions". If you base your scientific theories on "biblical texts", you can expect to be ostracized by the scientific community. Science relies on empirical evidence, not biblical texts.