Comments on: Rock of Ages

By: GQ

GQ — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:17:06 +0000

“This must be a geologist’s dream; finding the oldest rocks ever on Earth!”

Yeah, but imagine how he felt the day after.
“What did you do yesterday?”
“I found the oldest rock on Earth!”
“Nice! What’re you going to do today?”
“Um… “

By: Utakata

Utakata — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:27:06 +0000

Thanks, Mr. Grizzly…that sorta makes things a little more clear on what was otherwise a little too astronomically mind boggling for me.
So that makes more sense now…it was cocooned not shaded.

By: amphiox

amphiox — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:42:21 +0000

I must say that claiming a 600y earth really is a whole level of nutjob greater than a 6000y earth. There is extensive written documentation of historical events older than 600y, but for 6000y I’m not aware of much, so the evidence is primarily archeological. That means you’d have to deny a whole additional level of evidence to claim a 600y earth. An even higher level of reality denial would be to claim a 60y earth, where one would have to disregard recorded video and audio evidence.

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:42:06 +0000

Utakata, no, it isn’t a shady spot. It survived 4.whatever billion years of erosion and glaciation. What you are seeing when you visit the Pre-Cambrian Shield is the bones of the earth. When you walk on the Shield you are walking on what once was far inside mountains.

By: Utakata

Utakata — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:38:53 +0000

Um…I know that around the Canadian Shield there is some pretty old out croppings of rock…but I’m curious to know how this thing survided all these years intact with very little erosion/contamination/etc. It must been in a real shady spot.

By: Radwaste

Radwaste — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:05:32 +0000

Hey, folks read up on the Apollo missions sometime. You’ll see that the rocks from the Moon have been spared for public display because they’ve been scanned already, and/or have characteristics identical, so far as can be measured, to other rocks still in the lab.

Count the years. It’s been awhile.

One of the minerals brought back is now called “armalcolite”, named for Armstrong-Aldrin-Collins, who brought it back. It doesn’t occur on Earth.

Those of you with dating problems – sorry, not that kind – can actually get the info from a practicing Christian who knows when to read his instruments. See “Radiometric Dating – a Christian View”. It’s remarkably free of dogma.

You can also go find a copy of Nuclides and Isotopes, by GE Nuclear Energy. Your library might have one.

This stuff is studied so intently I don’t have the words to explain it.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:21:27 +0000

I presume that we’ve pretty much done all the research on that rock that we think we can. Doesn’t having people handle it at random potentially compromise geological data that can be mined from it? Or, do we just split it open and test the inside, which hasn’t been handled?