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There's a book about exactly this theory called The Deep Hot Biosphere by Gold. I've read it and it's very thought provoking, and well worth reading.

There's a very convincing hypotheses out there which proposes that oil, methane, and the like are formed by inorganic means rather than by the decomposition of organisms. It's called the Abiogenic Petroleum origin Theory.

Thomas Gold wrote a great book about it called The Deep Hot Biosphere. I highly recommend it.

A good read on a related topic is The Deep Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold

Maybe the coal isn't really 300 million years old...

Maybe coal isn't formed from decaying plants, but rather by the condensation of carbon -rich gases pouring out from tthe earth's mantle.

Maybe the coal formed around the piece of metal. Recently.

I'm just saying....maybe.

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Sure, it sounds crazy when I say stuff like this. But what if I told you my theory came from a renowned physicist, an indisputably brilliant scientist who has been called "one of the world's most original minds"? In the [The Deep Hot Biosphere] ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0387985468/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1) , Thomas Gold sets forth truly controversial and astonishing theories about where oil and gas come from, and how they acquire their organic "signatures." The conclusions he reaches in this book might be at first difficult to believe, but they are supported by a growing body of evidence...