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ideas. When the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency of America, gave the Hudson Institute the task of studying the world distribution of natural resources such as petrol, gas and coal, Professor Nebring, who was put in charge, discovered a rather strange phenomenon. He put together the continents as they would have been at the end of the geological tertiary period before they split up, and found that all the main oil springs such as those in the Arctic and Alaska, the asphalt sands of Alberta, the bitumen schists of Colorado, Mexico, and Venezuela, the heavy oils of Orenoc, Nigeria, South Sahara, Lybia, Arabia, Iran and Siberia all formed a circle. Present studies on petrol reveal that it is the result of what used to ! 1 . 1 ee : 1 tero4 be living organisms, such as plants, animals, etc., which have decomposed in anaerobic conditions, that is to say, in the absence of air, where special bacteria reduce and transform their proteins and fats. Dead trees are the main source of these proteins and fats, but what usually happens when one of them dies is that normal air- breathing bacteria decompose it and recycle it into the forest food chain without producing petrol, so for the above to occur the trees must be buried straight away to prevent access of air. But when oil fields are examined, one finds that they are extremely deep (2,000 meters deep in northern France) and cover considerable areas (18,000 kms in the Appalachians, USA), so the actual volume of material which must have been brutally buried all in one go was enormous. No theory up to now can account for these facts satisfactorily, but we Raelians hold the key to this enigma. 330 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS conclusions to be made, based on solid facts instead of preconceived ot Life on Earth is not the result of random chance, but is the fruit of outside intervention, of the Elohim, our creators. 2: ANEW HYPOTHESIS FOR THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY