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Oil as a “Soft Tissue”
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2016

Oil is in the news almost every day due to fluctuating prices and controversial fracking. How does oil fit into the Bible? Was oil made in the Flood? How does this important commodity influence a biblical worldview?

 

Other episodes in this series:

Summary of Megasequences across North America and the Global Flood

Summary of Megasequences across Africa and the Pre-Flood World

Dinosaur Evolution and the Fossil Record

Catastrophic Plate Tectonics and the Ice Age

 

                  
 

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