World's Oldest Rocks Found

Smivs writes "The BBC reports that Earth's most ancient rocks, with an age of 4.28 billion years, have been found on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada. Writing in Science journal, a team reports finding that a sample of Nuvvuagittuq greenstone is 250 million years older than any rocks known. It may even hold evidence of activity by ancient life forms. If so, it would be the earliest evidence of life on Earth — but co-author Don Francis cautioned that this had not been established. 'The rocks contain a very special chemical signature — one that can only be found in rocks which are very, very old,' he said."

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Re:4 Billion years old? I don't think so.

[narcberry]

mod parent redundant

First couple of posts already covered the, "conservatives suck" remarks.

You've got to hate conservatives quicker than that if you want your post to stick around...

They're running the country....

[eggfoolr]

Oh wait, it says rocks! I thought it said

Does it matter what the Pope says?

[gosand]

OK, so if the Pope's (ok, THAT PARTICULAR Pope's) stance is one that can support ideas that are compatible with science, it doesn't mean much. I mean, another Pope can come along and make a different statement. Although I am not entirely clear how this works with the concept of papal infallibility, but I am sure someone can readily explain that one away.

See, here's why I say it doesn't matter what the Pope says - it matters what it taught. I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic school for 8 years with nuns, the whole bit. They don't teach you this stuff. They don't teach real science. They don't teach you anything about other religions, or that there even are other religions. They aren't about real knowledge, they are about furthering their belief system and making sure you DON'T learn about things outside that. I'm not sure what is worse, to have a den of hypocrites (which is mainly what I see) or to have them be totally faithful to their religious teachings (which is downright scary).

Of course, I grew up before the internet, and there really wasn't an easy way to learn about other religions. There sure weren't any books in our school library.. and when you grow up in a mainly Catholic town, at the public library. Not that I would have probably sought them out anyway, I was taught that questioning the teachings was a sin. Sin, go to hell. (unless you ask that it be forgiven and say a few prayers, then *poof* - all good)

Maybe Catholocism has changed in the last 20 years... but I honestly don't care. If it HAS, then that just reinforces my point.