Well, I don't think that a lot of dating methods are correct. Many people think that diamonds take millions of years to grow, because that is what scientists have believed for a long time, but just recently, a scientist grew a diamond in his lab in less than a few hours
Interesting. It never occured to me to wonder about how long the geologists would say it took to form diamonds. I've never seen any information on that.
But thinking it through suggests that your millons of years number is wrong. Diamonds do not participate out like some minerals do. They are formed, as I understand it, in nature as in the lab. Under high temperature and pressure. They are formed in the pipes of volcanoes.
Since the lava in such a pipe will cool over a period of very much less than millions of years (years or tens of years) it seems to me that they couldn't take millions to form. Do you have a source for your number?
You may be confused because all the diamond pipes that I know about were formed millions of years ago. Don't confuse the age with how long they took to form in the first place.
BTW, Welcome to EvC. We do love to discuss this kind of thing.
You will, however, not find it easy going here. If you wish to defend a point of view you will have to work at getting your information correct and you logic tight.
Before you make statments about how correct dating methods are or are not you may have to learn about them. There are several thread in the "Dates and Dating" forum that may help.
I suggest:
Age Correlations and an Old Earth
This message has been edited by NosyNed, 11-07-2004 10:26 PM
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