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.

[Renraku]

According to any religion-respecting Christian, the rocks are only 5,000 years old.

I have no problem with Christians. I have a problem with someone that wants to run the country according to their religion, though. But if she keeps religion out of her office, I'd be fine with it.