4.4 billion-year-old crystal is oldest piece of Earth - Page 2

save shtal looking for the link;

lol. Always an explanation from someone who has it all figured out. Hell they know better than scientists who have devoted their whole lives to studying it with real scientific data and not some handed down fairy tale.

kent hovind looks like someone i would buy a vacum cleaner from.

Still waiting...

GSD Admin,

I stand on God’s word, which is scientific, period…And I am not worrying about if someone scoffs because I believe literal 6 days creation, I stand on God’s word, I don’t believe in millions of years because the fossil record is the record of death and disease and suffering and animals eating each other. From creation stand point animals and man were vegetarian; death came into the world because man sin. You see you believe in millions of years that you’re personal “imaginable” God “creating life” meaning your God was incapable creating perfect world because there is evidence animal eating each other, evidence of diseases like brain tumors, cancer and arthritis, but my God said in Genesis everything was very good when he finished his creation. You see thorns in the fossil record came after the curse; these two things cannot be true at the same time meaning you can’t have millions of years of fossil diseases; but people don’t want to believe the truth because that will make Bible true. And to answer your question the word Dinosaur was invented in 1841 by the geologist Richard Owen, but the Bible was written way before that so of course the word dinosaur is not recorded in Bible you see back in those old days’ they where called dragons instead - which you can find in Bible.

" I don’t believe in millions of years because the fossil record is the record of death and disease and suffering and animals eating each other."

thats why the intestinal tract of a cat is identical to that of a cow.


From creation stand point animals and man were vegetarian; death came into the world because man sin."

you a vegan shtal, you don't eat meat? you never been sick? it's a wonder PETA does not promote creationism.

I am grateful for this article because my younger son needed a current event article on an element for his science class. He was starting to stress about it and then I said, what about zircon? So we looked it up. And it is "ubiquitous in the earth's crust". 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon
 

Zircon is ubiquitous in the crust of Earth. It occurs in igneous rocks (as primary crystallization products), in metamorphic rocks and in sedimentary rocks (as detrital grains). Large zircon crystals are rare. Their average size in granite rocks is about 0.1–0.3 mm, but they can also grow to sizes of several centimeters, especially in pegmatites.

Because of their uranium and thorium content, some zircons undergo metamictization. Connected to internal radiation damage, these processes partially disrupt the crystal structure and partly explain the highly variable properties of zircon. As zircon becomes more and more modified by internal radiation damage, the density decreases, the crystal structure is compromised, and the color changes.

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Radiometric dating[edit]

Zircon has played an important role during the evolution of radiometric dating. Zircons contain trace amounts of uranium and thorium (from 10 ppm up to 1 wt%) and can be dated using several modern analytical techniques. Because zircons can survive geologic processes like erosion, transport, even high-grade metamorphism, they contain a rich and varied record of geological processes. Currently, zircons are typically dated by uranium-lead (U-Pb), fission-track, and U+Th/He techniques.

Zircons from Jack Hills in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, have yielded U-Pb ages up to 4.404 billion years,^[9] interpreted to be the age of crystallization, making them the oldest minerals so far dated on Earth. In addition, the oxygen isotopic compositions of some of these zircons have been interpreted to indicate that more than 4.4 billion years ago there was already water on the surface of the Earth.^[9][10] This interpretation is supported by additional trace element data,^[11][12] but is also the subject of debate.^[13][14]

 

VK4,  I usually try to ignore when I see trash...

"VK4,  I usually try to ignore when I see truth..."

Fire breathing dragons????

Shtal,

It is fine for you to believe how you want. I know that when I was a little kid I believed in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus but I grew up and lost interest in fairy tales.

So, these dragons did they fly? Did the dragons live at the same time as man? Why don't we find these dragons to have lived in the time period that you claim? Why didn't Noah save us some dragons? What about unicorns? lol.

Dragons, huh? Does your fairy tale, er, I mean bible explain what these dragons looked like?