Evolution and Oil?

[putts]

I can't imagine I'm the first to think of this so I'm sure Evolutionists have come up for a reason for it, but here's my quandry.....

Oil is made of, basically, of super-compressed carbon based organisms, right? Mainly humans and animals (maybe plants too).

What part of the earth has the largest supply of oil? The middle East. So, it'd be safe to infer from that there were more people/animals in the Middle East over time than anywhere else.

If that's the case, doesn't the Creationistic view sound more scientifically founded (in this case) than evolution as it makes plenty good sense if you believe that Adam, Eve and all the animals came from, probably, someplace between the Tigrus and Euphrates that there is where we would now find the most oil?

I mean, if everything evolved (as per theory) then there's no real reason that the population couldn't be very evenly distributed throughout the entire planet and there's no real good reason that there's such a concentration of oil in this one part of the world.

Just one of those that struck me in mid thought about something else that got my mind running.

Seems that even if Evolutionists have come up with reasoning for this this is another one of those crazy coincidences that gives Creationism a bit of decent empirical backing.

[kevin]

If the one and only factor for modern day oil reserves were the concentration of animal/plants in that region in the past, then maybe your conclusions could be valid. But I have a feeling that there is more involved than just the number of animals/plants in the past. But since I only know the basics of the processes that lead up to the below ground oil reserves we use, I won't try and extrapolate my meager knowledge into an hypothesis.

I think you will find this article of interest:

http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-155.htm

[Horus_Kol]

Putts,

Evidence is mounting that there are even more vast oil reserves under the tundra of Siberia... The problem is the cold out there.

Also, thanks to the treaties governing the Antarctic continent, there is little knowledge of what kind of mineral resources there are under the ground in that region.

Finally, humans (or at least human corpses) haven't contributed to the oil deposits yet, because they were laid down many millions of years before we even turned up on the scene - which is why the reserves are so limited.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think that oil deposits are formed in sedimented rock under the ocean - and then seep up through porous rock until it either reaches a non-porous layer (and stays underground) or bubbles to the top, which is where medieval pitch used to come from.

[putts]

well, here's my crackshot Creationist theory on it - which is currently unfounded by any research as it's just a wandering thought in my head. :P

Popular theory says the Eden would've been in between the Tigrus and Euphrates placing Adam and Eve right in the center of the Middle East so we can assume that that would be the epicenter of both human and animal species. So, at any time early within the creation of the earth, the farther we are from the Middle East the lower the population should be (which probably held pretty true until passage across the Atlantic started).

Now, I'm a firm believer that all the continents were one at one point in time and, from the Creationists' POV, would prolly argue that either the Flood or the Tower of Babal was the reason for the separation. Now, whatever people/animals are not on Australia, South America and North America have no easy way to get over here short of the Bering Straight (which would have been a landbridge at that time)

So, I would guestimate that you would find the most fossil fuels in the Middle East and then a fairly equal amount strewn about Asia, Europe and Africa (Africa may have a slight bit less as it seems less liveable compared to Europe and Asia) and then a substantial amount less in the other 3 continents mentioned though we might find more in Alaska due to Eskimoes that might have crossed at the Bering Straight but didn't go much farther than that as the Yukon isn't exactly nature's paradise nor does it have much water for fishing)

Now, from what bits of knowledge I have about the world's oil reserves that seems to match up, but, again, I'm not exactly well versed in this subject but thought it was interesting enough to throw out here.