Young-Earth Creationists: Scientists have just discovered 4-billion year old diamonds.?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/diamondsnearlyasoldasearth;_ylt=ArTEsdsHJiyVC_8eNBmxpanq188F

How valuable do you think they could be?

Jacobi: It's amazing that you had to look at the 7th definition of the word to find the one that best suited your intentions correctly.

Steve B: If they dated the Zircon and found it to be at least 4-billion years old, that means the diamonds inside are even older than that.

Answer 1

Obviously, God created those diamonds 6,000 years ago, and intelligently designed them to LOOK like they are 4-billion years old.

You know, just to screw with us. Cause God's like that.

Answer 2

God can use materials of whatever age He chooses when He creates something, can't He? Anything IS possible with God!

What I found most interesting is that they said the diamonds were about as old as the earth itself. How can that be? Doesn't it take a long time for the natural processes and forces to make a diamond? I guess there's always a problem with man's knowledge, that's why we are still learning and discovering new things that continually challenge our old thinking.

Someday I expect science will discover some new element or some flaw in their dating processes and procedures that will radically disprove all of the previous dates they have assigned to ancient materials. Science is still learning. That is why I personally do not worship at the altars of education or science.

Answer 3

I considered creationism about a year ago, I kept watching Kent Hovind and Ken Ham but I don't like their attitudes towards others in discussions. They are aggressive, arrogant and have no respect for other's opinions. Now this alone shouldn't be a reason not to believe in them, but those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. But I feel creationists just want to get their view across! I think this piece of scripture applies to this situation: They waste their time in endless discussion of myth and spiritual pedigrees. These things only lead to meaningless speculation, which don't help people live a life of faith in God. The purpose of the bible is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience and genuine faith. But some people have missed the whole point. They have turned away from these things and spend their time in meaningless discussions. They want to be known as teachers, but they don't know what they are talking about, even though they speak so confidently.

Answer 4

I don't fit in the young earth category, but I would be interested in knowing how they dated the zircon. I understood (was taught in science classes YEARS ago) that non-biologicals could not be dated accurately past a certain age. I would be very interested in the new technology that allows the chemical dating of crystals. By any chance, do you have a link?


Edit: Why the thumb down? I am trying to learn something here and asked a simple question. School was a long time ago for me and I know that things change. I really would like to read how they date non-biologicals now.

Answer 5

Some scientists approached an alien and tried to determine his age. They performed many series of tests on the alien.

Said the scientists to the alien, "Aha! We can see from your skeletal formation, dental evidence, and bone tissue that you were born approximately eight hundred years ago!"

Said the alien to the scientists, "Who said I was born?"

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Okay, in all seriousness, yes the diamonds and the fossils and the bones etc are however many billions of years old and yes, the world was created approximately six thousand years ago.

Adam haRishon was created at the age of thirty. He was one day old spiritually and thirty years old physically. He had been walking around for one day, but he had his wisdom teeth and facial hair.

Now, why on earth would the world be created as an adult mature world? Is it because God is messing with us, or might it be because it's important to be able to look back at the fossil record to see things like, "Gee... we didn't have so much global warming before the industrial revolution..."

The bottom line is, while the world may be spiritually about six thousand years old, that should play no bearing on the daily life of... anyone I can think of. Physically, we're talking billions of years, and people should just accept that and see what we can learn from all that evidence.

Answer 6

The diamond could be a part of another galaxy. Must have travelled for 7 billion light years and crashed to Earth. All the history of the Universe from the big bang must be contained in it. The Scientist concerned should be able to judge the price. Or it could be put up for auction in the Christies !

Answer 7

Why are you so quick to believe an article that does not even explain how these diamonds were tested for age? Why are you convinced that they are 4 billion years old?

Answer 8

They are probably no more or less valuable than any others. But the "young earth" theory is nonsense: there are annual layers in the Antarctic ice cap going back millions of years; all you need to see them is a shovel and the ability to count.

Answer 9

Only a very small percentage of Christians are "young Earth Creationists." Most Christians are fine with 5 billion year old Earth.

Answer 10

Where does your sense of right and wrong derive from? all you who speak of earth being billions of years old... certainly not from some one celled organism that you say we have came from.... We are more than some animals... we were created not evolved from stardust... You say billion God say's 6000... Science cannot and will not disprove the existence of God.

Answer 11

"La la la, I can't hear you! La la la...."


Hey Jacobi: that would be theory in terms of common parlance, a SCIENTIFIC THEORY is defined as follows:

" well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory" "

Congrats on being totally wrong, that takes skill. And for the record, what you described is an HYPOTHESIS.

Jacobi: What makes the crucial difference here is that the two definitions are very different, and you are using the wrong one.

Live and let live Jacobi. And the same to you.