Nasty crude

I was on a plane last night with a very interesting scientist. I was very tired and preferred to sleep; he was very talkative and preferred to talk. He won the battle and we talked for four hours…sigh I have to admit though that he was very interesting. He was a geology expert, physicist, and was an expert in several other science disciplines. He fascinated me with stories of the creation of the earth and how and why the ice age came and went and the wooly mammoth and dinosaurs came and went with them.

We talked about global warming and fossil fuels and how they are created. He told me they have discovered the actually microbes that create oil and that there is an endless supply to be had. Apparently these bacteria like creatures eat animal dung and the result is oil. Hog manure is the richest and they are building plants in the desert to spread manure on the desert and saturate it with microbes to produce all of the oil we need. Chicken manure works well too. Picture filling up your brand new car with how manure oil. We have an endless supply of waste and all of it can be made into oil. (Maybe I will keep my gas guzzling caddy.)

Apparently global warming is real but is not affected so much by mankind as natural things like the rotting tundra in the far north allowing methane gas, (something far more devastating to the atmosphere than CO2), to escape to the atmosphere. He told me that history reveals that every few million years the earth undergoes cycles and that this is just another long string of cycles and mankind has some limited effect is a rather small player in the big scheme of things. (Gee I wonder if they will take back Al Gore’s Nobel peace Prize and maybe give another one to Jimmy Carter?)

We discussed the flood of Noah and surprisingly he thinks that it did happen and not that long ago geologically speaking of course. I say surprisingly because many scientists dismiss the notion of God. He did not. The Bible tells us that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord. Time has no meaning when it comes to eternity. God always was and always will be according to the Bible. These are impossible concepts to grasp, but nonetheless what little God has revealed to us concerning portions of eons of history can still be borne out by science today. I think the universe was created over eons of time and God’s account of the creation in the Bible is a way to explain it to us in simple terms. There would not be room enough on earth to house the manuscript for the full story and if there was no one could understand it. God had to tell the ancient world and our more modern society in simple terms what occurred in understandable terms. Just because it is not all-inclusive does not diminish its truth in any way and therein lies the problem for many scientific types.

Jesus told Timothy that he believed because he saw Jesus Christ in the flesh after he had arisen; He told him that those who believed without seeing Him with their own eyes were even more blessed. Some things we just have to take upon faith, but there will come a day where it will be face to face. I can’t wait to talk to Jesus for hours and get real answers in depth from the Person who was there and was actually creating the ice fields and allowing meteors hit the earth to warm them up.

1 Cor. 12:12
For now we see in a mirror,
dimly, but then face to face. Now I
know in part, but then I shall know
just as I am also known.
And now abide in faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these
is love.