Oil

Resources

Claim CC361.1: Coal and oil can form quickly

Claim CD011.6: Ancient coal and oil are C-14 dated as only 50,000 years old

Claim CD231: High pressures in oil fields would have bled off if earth were old

Claim CD232: Oil seepage would have drained offshore reservoirs in 20,000 years

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Oil Formation

Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science video.

Young-earth "proof" #18: The incredible pressure found in oil and gas wells indicates they have been there less than 15,000 years. (Presumably, the oil or gas would have escaped long before then.)

Article by Dave E. Matson on the Secular Web site. Also available in the TalkOrigins Archive.