God Gave Us Coal - Creation Moments

Genesis 1:28
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

Wouldn’t it be marvelous if God had given us a material from which we could extract energy? The material could be solid so that its energy content would be concentrated, and it could be mostly carbon, so that when we burned it, the most common product of combustion would be safe, non-poisonous carbon dioxide. Perhaps it could contain small amounts of other useful materials which we could easily extract for multiple purposes while burning it to prevent these materials polluting the air. And the material could exist in large quantities underground, even in areas of the world where other natural resources are few.

God has given us such a material. It is called coal. It is very possible that a lot of the Earth’s coal was formed during the worldwide Flood.

It is popular to despise coal today. It is true that smoke and sulfur dioxide are pollutants, but today they can easily be removed. Meanwhile, we have frequently explained in these Creation Moments that carbon dioxide is actually beneficial for plant life and is not causing the problems ascribed to it by certain climate alarmists. Moreover, large deposits of coal are being found in developing countries which could lift their populations out of poverty with the utilization of this God-given resource.

Let’s not overlook the resources that God has given us in our pursuit of other alternatives. Such resources are for our blessing, and it is ungrateful for humanity to ignore them.

Prayer: Thank You, Lord, for giving us coal in such abundance. Remind us that much of it came from the worldwide Flood, making it another instance of You turning a worldwide disaster into a worldwide blessing. Amen.

Author: Paul F. Taylor