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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (65)	11/18/2002 12:55:26 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 603

That would be the Thomas Gold theory, I was going to dig up some old stuff on that when it came up but got waylaid. Gold's stuff has been kicking around a long time. My first recollection is from this article : Thomas Gold & Steven Soter (1980). The deep-Earth-gas hypothesis. Scientific American 242(6), 155-161. As near as I can tell, Gold has been "adjusting" his theory as the various tests don't quite pan out the way he predicted. One counterpoint, off the top of my head, is that there's generally considered to be a lot more coal that oil around, and nobody to my knowledge is claiming a non-biological origin for coal.