The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels

John P. Miller, Director, Center of Computational Biology, Montana State University
The Deep Hot Biosphere is a real eye-opener. Actually my fundamental reaction is that none of this should seem controversial: it makes such good sense that I feel embarrassed for the biology community for not having established this as a fundamental alternate hypothesis 20 years ago. I have a sickening sensation that, in a decade or so, scientists will be looking back on the state of the field at the turn of the century as if we were intellectual barbarians, much the way we look back on those who questioned Darwin's work when it was first presented.

Robert A. Hefner III, The GHK Companies, Oklahoma City
My knowledge and experience of natural gas, gained from drilling and operating many of the world's deepest and highest pressure natural gas wells, lends more credence to your ideas than the conventional theories of the biological/thermogenic origin of natural gas. Your theory explains best what we actually encountered in deep drilling operations.

Gold's theories are always original, always important, and usually right. It is my belief, based on fifty years of observation of Gold as a friend and colleague, that The Deep Hot Biosphere is all of the above: original, important, controversial, and right.