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 A Dinosaur Tale
Posted: Monday November 15, 2004 11:01 AM EST
For decades, we have launched unmanned probes to other planets and moons in our solar system. These have sent back pictures and data sufficient to teach us the true origin of hydrocarbons, whether they be on a distant planet or here on Earth. We have learned that hydrocarbons are present almost everywhere in the solar system, not just on Earth. Sophisticated spectrographic analysis has detected hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of most major planets and many large moons. So much for dinosaur tales. Most notable for its concentration of hydrocarbons (scientists cautiously use the word “methane”) is great Titan, a moon nearly the size of Mars that circles Saturn. Data suggests that the atmosphere of this planet-sized moon is composed primarily of nitrogen and hydrocarbons in one form or another. Some astronomers speculate that so great is the concentration of hydrocarbons in its atmosphere that when it rains on Titan, condensed hydrocarbons drizzle from clouds of methane rather than water as on Earth. In fact, where Earth is a water planet with streams, lake, rivers and oceans of water, Titan may be an oil planet with streams, lakes, rivers and oceans of flowing hydrocarbons in one form or another ranging from light, volatile oils to heavier forms. Now, the Cassini spacecraft will go in for a close-up look to further answer our questions. Some scientists have gone so far as to speculate that the Huygens probe that Cassini will parachute down on Titan will land in a sea of liquid methane. What seems likely from the evidence collected to date is that Titan and Earth represent two distinct phases of similar planetary evolution. The oil deposits deep in Earth’s crust betray the unarticulated truth that this planet once passed through a phase like that which persists on Titan today. At some time in Earth’s prehistory, our atmosphere was so charged with hydrocarbons that they naturally accumulated in great concentrations on the surface. Some of the heavier oils were deposited in pools and then buried in seismic events. Some of the lighter hydrocarbons, like naphtha, would have seeped deep into the ground to accumulate in vast pools, just as water concentrates in deep aquifers today. Those great pools of oil, gas or petroleum remained entombed in Earth’s crustal rock, insulated from the chemical and catastrophic processes that ultimately reduced our atmosphere to its present composition. No one speculates that these newly discovered hydrocarbons found elsewhere in the solar system came from any kind of decayed biomass. The environment on other planets—most notably the gaseous giants—is far too harsh to support any life, much less generate the abundance needed to produce massive amounts of hydrocarbons. So, why assume that oil elsewhere—on Earth, for example—came exclusively from life? This beg the question: Since there are massive amounts of hydrocarbons elsewhere in the solar system, might it be that Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits originated in the same way as those others? Of course, the only logical answer is yes! If it is impossible that hydrocarbons found elsewhere in the solar system are the byproducts of life, then it stands to reason that the same holds true for Earth. Once mankind entered the space age, the orthodox myth of crude oil’s origin in ancient biomass should have been dispelled immediately. But it was not. Instead, today’s science textbooks parrot the same weary myth of yesteryear. Although the truth is as plain as the nose on our collective face, we persist in teaching a dinosaur tale, a fabrication. Indeed, the latest textbooks written and used by academia in classes on geology, paleontology and astronomy, intended to ‘educate’ the young, perpetuate this absurd fiction. Once again, as in the days of Copernicus and Galileo, we see establishment science and academia clinging like grim death to an absolute myth! Then, as now, whenever people who have embraced a myth or mystery are confronted by truth, they seldom relinquish the myth. Indeed, they continue to embrace it in the face of all evidence to the contrary, either completely ignoring the evidence for the truth or viciously attacking it with spurious logic and an utter absence of common sense.
In other words, we go on telling dinosaur tales.
© Anthony E. Larson, 2004
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