4.4 billion-year-old crystal is oldest piece of Earth - Page 1

From a sheep ranch in Western Australia comes the oldest slice of Earth we know.

Scientists say they have dated an ancient crystal called a zircon to about 4.4 billion years, making it the earliest confirmed piece of the planet's crust. The findings -- the first to describe the zircon -- were published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.

Read more at the link below.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/world/oldest-earth-fragment/index.html

Here we go again lol

It isn't very big at all. How in the world did they ever find it? There has to be little bits more of this type of crystal all over every where, wouldn't you think?

fascinating article, the world really is an ancient place, to think natives in the area where that sample was located walked the earth some 40 000 years before the new testament was written, edited and re-written ad naseum.

mapping the evolution of defects in crystal growth is an amazing branch of science. so many do not appreciatte that if nature was perfect then materails would lack strength for any practical human purpose and the almost infinite useful properties of the materials we use would not exist - eg computers. 

nature was created imperfect evidently, i guess if you attribute a creator to it then that creator it follows is imperfect.

scientists can trump nature by way of  intelligently designing and creating perfect crystals which they engineer controlled defects into and viola, like magic, we have semi-conductor physics, computers and the internet to argue that science is just another religion.

 

"nature was created imperfect evidently, i guess if you attribute a creator to it then that creator it follows is imperfect."

I'll wait while you prepare that argument. Forgive me if I step away for the rest of my life. ;)

read the edit

Not sure I am in a position to perceive enough of the "whole" of whatever to deem something "defective".

VK4, grow up or you deliberately confuse the differences between historical, observational or imaginable science LOL

vk4gsd,

Just another piece of the puzzle to help prove that the earth is older than 6,000, 2000 or however old some would have you believe. These things go against the fairy tale and so some have a hard time believing them and will go to great lengths to try and disprove them.

Shtal,

Talk to me about how long ago dinosaurs roamed earth. In your fairy tale belief system explain why dinosaurs were never mentioned in the bible?

 

admin you are so misled, this explains the whole dinosaur/fire breathing dragon thing, hosted by none other than....