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Other details that rile believers in uniformitarianism is that burnable (unpermineralized) wood has been found in diamond-bearing rock — and in more than one location. Further, there's the carbon-14 problem: it's not supposed to exist in diamonds, but hey, there it is. This is evidence that diamonds, and the earth itself, are nowhere near as old as some people want us to believe.
Jewellers sometimes tell awe-struck customers that diamonds have been sitting undisturbed in the ground for hundreds of millions of years, since before the time of the dinosaurs, just waiting to add sparkle to rings, necklaces and broaches. The British Jewellers’ Association says that all natural diamonds have existed for at least 900 million years, with the oldest specimens being 3.2 billion years old!Diamonds are hard, but the rest of this article is not so hard. (See what I did there? Fallacy of equivocation to make a funny.) To finish reading, click on "Diamonds—Are they really all that old?"
These are extraordinary claims, but scientific facts indicate a different reality. It is interesting to consider the compelling evidence that all natural diamonds are actually far younger.
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