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Then what about this? is this the work of satan?http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070323/sc_livescience/crustyolddiscoveryrevealsearlyearthshistory
Crusty Old Discovery Reveals Early Earth's History - Yahoo! News

2007-03-24 15:35:08 · 12 answers · asked by clutchstevens 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

12 answers

of course not

2007-03-24 15:38:11 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 3 0

To save you going to the link - - -

Only in science could the discovery of something old and crusty be exciting and researchers are very excited about finding chunks of Earth's outer crust that are 3.8 billion years old. Most stuff that old has been folded back into the planet and lost forever or spat back out after being melted into unrecognizable magma.
The discovery, detailed in today's issue of the journal 'Science', provides solid evidence that Earth had crustal plates way back then that were banging into each other much as they do today in a process that drives earthquakes and reshapes continents. That activity, and the chemical changes to land, sea and air that accompany it, are thought to have been crucial to the instigation of life on Earth, an event that remains utterly mysterious in terms of timing and method.
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. For a long time, geologists thought all this activity, called plate tectonics, did not start until about 2.5 billion years ago. They speculated that for a long time after its formation, the planet might have been a fiery hell or a total waterworld. More recently, however, geochemical analysis of rocks had suggested there were continents and plate tectonics 4.3 billion years ago—very soon after the planet's birth.
The new study is the first to provide physical evidence of tectonics among Earth's oldest known rock structures, said study team member Hubert Staudigel of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
“The fact that this rock structure is so well preserved is particularly lucky,” Staudigel said. “The materials were formed as seafloor along a spreading center and accreted to a continental plate and just stuck there, surviving almost unscathed for as long as 3.8 billion years.”
The crusty old stuff was found in a rare outcrop of rock near the southwestern coast of Greenland.
How it happened
The Isua deposits, as they are called, have been studied since the 1960s. They also contain fossilized evidence of the earliest bacterial life on Earth, also from about 3.8 billion years ago.
The rocks have two components. Some was lava that was once below the seafloor and rose to the surface as crustal plates spread apart long ago. Embedded in that lava rock are sheets of basalt rock that got mixed in after the lava formed, the new study reveals. Even though the rocks have physically changed over time, the scientists were able to discern their original characteristics from fine-grained crystals that were cooled by contact with surrounding colder rocks.
“Our work shows that some form of seafloor spreading and oceanic crust formation occurs as far back in history as geological records go,” said Staudigel 's colleague Maarten de Wit of University of Cape Town, South Africa.

OK, creationists and 'bibleists'- your turn.

2007-03-24 22:42:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Satan doesn't exist the Earth does and it's about 4.8 - 5 billion years old and some scientists speculate even older.. I live on the edge of the Flinders Ranges in Sth Australia.. Here are the oldest rocks on the Planet, and that is scientific fact, no matter what that site claims about Greenland.. The rocks here are older FACT..... )O(

2007-03-24 22:48:01 · answer #3 · answered by Bunge 7 · 0 0

Those scientists have it totally wrong. I saw on a website (can't remember which one) where there was a cowboy boot from about 40-50 years ago that was found that had a fossilized foot in it and looked like it was billions of years old but they knew it couldn't be. That boot proved that it only takes a few years for an object to become fossilized and appear billions of years old. Here is the website: http://www.bible.ca/tracks/rapid-fossils-rapid-petrifaction.htm

2007-03-24 23:10:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If our secular history is correct. If we can go back to the time before king David to Jacob. If history dates him correctly to about 2000 B.C., then the earth is about 6200 years old. We can count forward accurately from creation to the time of Jacob. It is from Jacob to David where the dates are in dispute up to as much as about 400 years at most. But that is all. Even worse case it would be 6000 to 6400 years. But many conservative Bible students place it at 6230.
Now about this article in the news about old chunk of crust, You must remember that those dates are estimated based on the assumed date values assigned to the geologic column. No date over about 5500 years is without dispute. There is no way to test these old dates. It is all speculation.

2007-03-24 22:53:39 · answer #5 · answered by DATA DROID 4 · 0 0

A good percent of America would say it's wrong. But nowadays most religious people are starting to accept evolutiuton and the big bang. But think god is the one that started it all....

And there are no religious people left on here so don't even bother.

2007-03-24 22:51:36 · answer #6 · answered by Beaverscanttalk 4 · 0 0

no, thats silly. The earth is about 4.5 Billion years old.

Go outside and pick up a rock. Theres a 99% chance that rock is older than 7 - 10,00 years.

2007-03-24 22:39:06 · answer #7 · answered by sprocket9727 3 · 3 0

Make up a ridiculously large number (lots and lots of zeros), and double it. You are as close to the real number as they are. (or anyone is)
You may note that there is life from the beginning also.

2007-03-24 22:39:19 · answer #8 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 1 0

Well if God created everything, He created time along with it.
And can do what He wants with it.

2007-03-24 22:44:13 · answer #9 · answered by redman 5 · 1 0

No, but the warranty expired 8,234 years ago.

2007-03-24 22:43:52 · answer #10 · answered by dave 5 · 1 0

not all christians believe that. some guy in the 1700s made up that theory.

2007-03-24 22:38:25 · answer #11 · answered by Zero 3 · 2 0

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