Okay, so being that I’m a Christian nerd, I am torn between two distinct schools of thought. Most Evangelical Christians take the Bible at face value, while most academics question and dissect everything in the Bible. To oversimplify the conflict: Religious people see intellectuals as having no heart because they lack faith. While intellectuals accuse religious folks of being simple and brainless because they accept the Bible and God without question.
That is an oversimplification but it will suffice for this entry.
The most obvious place for disagreement is in dealing with our origins, also known as historical science. The accusation that many academics throw around is that Christians don’t think. What they are really upset about is that most Christians don’t swallow the scientific theories about our history that are presented as proven facts and iron-clad theories. Evolution. Big Bang. Millions and Billions of years. Stephen Hawking. 42.
While all this is well and good, I’ve always leaned toward utilitarianism. Its hard to get me to care about abstract things unless they affect the real world somehow. A thought without a function (utility) doesn’t appeal to me. Fortunately, most thoughts fulfill the function of making me seem smart so I’ve accumulated a lot of otherwise useless information… I digress.
Oil. Naturalistic geology (there is another school called Creation geology but its a private school so it isn’t funded by the government) says that oil was begun some 90 to 150 millions ago by the slow deposition of marine life, buried and in the course of millions of years this organic goo has been transformed into modern golden energy elixir. And because it took soooo long, it is a non-renewable resource, end of story.
But what if Noah’s Flood did all of this, and this flood took place (following a literal Biblical timeline) about 4,500 years ago? I would love to invest in a company that took this approach and instead of following conventional wisdom that oil is a non-renewable resource, developed a way to speed up the 4,500 year process. I know for a fact that diamonds can be produced in laboratories in days instead of the billions of years that it reportedly took for the earth to form them naturally.
What if there was a way to recycle our organic goo into petroleum? Such an invention and/or process would be the next lightbulb and telephone combined. While I’m not smart enough myself to invent such a process or device, I knows onez whenz I seez onez. So if you’re a smart ‘un and your company is going to be the next GE or Ma Bell then I’d like in on the groundfloor. Unless that is where you are storing all the organic goo.
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