So how do you exactly propose that pieces of coal materialize themselves along with prints of plants that vanished hundreds of millions of years ago? Or how the

So how do you exactly propose that pieces of coal materialize themselves along with prints of plants that vanished hundreds of millions of years ago? Or how the oil materialized from thin air. I think any industrial civilization will not hesitate to use things that are lying on the ground. It is the definition of "industrial" to be efficient with what you are given. It is possible we had other "types" of civilizations the way we had a dozen ancient civilizations exist akin to false jump starts like some kind of experiments but never reaching industrial level.