NEXT THEY’LL TELL US THAT OIL CAN BE PRODUCED ABIOTICALLY: Mysterious ‘Dark Oxygen’ Discovered at Bottom of Ocean Stuns Scientists. “Chugging quietly away in the dark depths of Earth’s ocean floors, a spontaneous chemical reaction is unobtrusively creating oxygen, all without the involvement of life. This unexpected discovery upends the long-standing consensus that it takes photosynthesizing organisms to produce the oxygen we need to breathe.”