Diamonds—Time Capsules of Billions of Years?

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By Ken Ham

“Ugly diamonds”—or fibrous diamonds—aren’t the kind you’re likely to see on a lady’s finger, but you might find them in a scientific laboratory. Some of these cloudy diamonds contain small pockets of fluid, believed by many geologists to be billions of years old and therefore supposedly able to give us insight into early earth. But where do these dates come from?

Well, a popular summary of some new research on these fibrous diamonds states,

By modeling [the] decay [of uranium and thorium] and how much helium 4 leakage is possible over time, Weiss and his colleagues determined a broad age range …read more

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