Petroleum hydrocarbons in earth are of organic origin (they form from dead plants and animals) and are intimately related with water.
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About the Book
God and Petroleum
by Roberto Aguilera
Published 17 March 2025
Tellwell Talent
Genre: Religious Non-Fiction
Page Count: 328
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It’s been many years since God planted in my heart the idea to author this book. To do so I relied on science and engineering, looking deep into the earth a few thousand feet, dreaming of petroleum reservoirs I could not see, and evaluated them using mostly indirect sources of information. Petroleum hydrocarbons in earth are of organic origin (they form from dead plants and animals) and are intimately related with water. I also had to look to a different scale deep into the universe when it was created 13.77 billion years ago to try to understand the origin of hydrogen, the birth of the first hydrogen star (the seed star), its explosion in a supernova, and the repetitive births and explosions of subsequent stars that led eventually to the formation of elements such as carbon and iron and to hydrocarbons in the universe. These are hydrocarbons of inorganic origin.
Then I moved into the micrometer scale of human cells and to top research informing us that we are very close to chimpanzees, and a very persuasive discussion about evolution that I agree with. The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman in the sixth day, and that he formed man in the seventh day of the dust of the earth and woman of the rib of man. At first glance all of this seems contradictory, but it is not. This book shows that available science supports Genesis’ seven days very well. They do not contradict each other.
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Excerpt
It is the Big Bang. This is the beginning of our universe when space, time and gravity were created. Only God is eternal, but the universe, time, space, and gravity are limited. The Big Bang occurred approximately 13.77 billion years ago (13,770 mya; mya = million years ago). And our solar system has been around for about 4.6 billion years. This corresponds to about one third of the life of the universe.
Monsignor Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Catholic Jesuit priest (1894–1996), mathematically developed the concept and theory of the Big Bang. Lemaître developed his ideas using as a base Einstein’s studies on the theory of relativity and the laws of gravitation published in 1915. At the time Lemaître published his theory in Belgium in 1927, scientists thought that the universe was eternal and unchanging as suggested by Newton’s laws. Aristoteles (384–322 BC) had previously posited the idea that the universe is eternal and unchanging.
About the Author
Roberto Aguilera is professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary (Canada) and president of Servipetrol Ltd. He specializes in the evaluation of naturally fractured, tight and shale petroleum reservoirs worldwide. He has authored and co-authored six books dealing with petroleum engineering subjects and over 300 technical papers. He has rendered training and/or consulting services in over 40 countries worldwide. This is his first book linking God, His creation, and the benefits of petroleum to humanity while debunking alarming claims about its use.
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