Turning diamonds into methane

 

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to a recent study, diamonds can be made into methane. 

“The deep earth's carbon cycle accounts for about 90% of the whole carbon cycle. despite this, to date the cycle happening beneath the earth's surface is little known. this phenomenon is crucial to life on our planet as it allows carbon in the deep earth to get back to the atmosphere.”

This turns the Darwinian concept of science stating that climate change is based on science into changing carbon dioxide into something else is a not supported by science. We would not want the researchers turning our diamonds into methane.

Source:

Università di Bologna. 2021.Can diamonds originate methane? Università di Bologna. 14 December.

Millions Of Years – In Diamonds

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Joel Kontinen


For evolutionists, diamonds speak of millions of years.

For creationists, the story is different. Dr. John Baumgardner discovered that both coal and diamonds contain measurable amounts of carbon-14. The half life of C-14 is approximately 5,700 years so diamonds that are assumed to be millions of years old should not contain any radiocarbon.

Now, evolutionists want to claim that some diamonds were produced near the Earth's core, they said, which would make them very old.

"The "Hope" diamond, a large and famous stone, as well as the "Cullinan" diamond, the largest rough gemstone ever found, are different. They're "super deep" stones, new research confirms. "

Source:

Letzter, Rafi. 2020. Hope diamond formed stunningly close to Earth's core.Live Science .26 June.

ICR: 40 Years of Creation Research

Joel Kontinen





Forty years ago Dr. Henry Morris, then a hydraulics professor at Virginia Tech, established the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). From a humble beginning, ICR has grown into a remarkable apologistic organisation known throughout the world for its creation research and criticism of evolution.

ICR researchers have made some remarkable breakthroughs. Dr. John Baumgardner for instance discovered that both coal and diamonds contain measurable amounts of carbon-14. The half life of C-14 is approximately 5,700 years so diamonds that are assumed to be millions of years old should not contain any radiocarbon.

ICR has also published tens of books and a layman’s magazine called Acts & Facts. Last year it participated in making the documentary The Mysterious Islands. ICR has an educational centre in Dallas, Texas, and for 16 years operated the Museum of Creation and Earth History at Santee, California. The museum is currently run by the Life and Light Foundation.



Sources:

DeYoung, Don. 2005. Thousands … Not Billions. Green Forest, AZ: Master Books.

The web pages of ICR


Numbers, Ronald L. 2006. The Creationists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Diamonds Refute the Old Dogma of Millions of Years

Diamonds speak of a young earth. Image from Wikipedia.


Joel Kontinen

Diamonds recently found in eastern Finland caused Aamulehti, a major Finnish daily, to associate them with millions of years. According to the paper, the extremely old (2.5 billion year) bedrock might well contain an abundance of diamonds, bringing about a veritable diamond boom.

While Finland would gladly welcome a new source of revenue, diamonds do not have anything to do with millions of years. Diamonds disclose a very different message.

In 2005, creation scientists completed a comprehensive research project known as RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth). The research results were astounding.

For instance, doctor John Baumgarder found carbon-14 in diamonds. C-14 or radiocarbon as it is also called is produced as cosmic rays bombard the earth’s upper atmosphere, producing neutrons that combine with nitrogen-14 atoms to form carbon-14.

The carbon atoms drift down, combining with oxygen to form carbon dioxide molecules (CO2). Plants and animals absorb some of this carbon dioxide. Once the organism dies, its C-14 content begins to diminish.

C-14 or radiocarbon is carbon’s unstable isotope that has a half life of 5 730 years. Diamonds estimated to be billions of years should not have any carbon-14. However, all the diamonds in the RATE study had clearly observable amounts of C-14.

Baumgardner’s research indicates that the examined diamonds cannot be older than 55 700 years.

Some skeptics have suggested that the carbon-14 in diamonds might be caused by the background radiation in the detector. This cannot be true since the AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) method that was used to examine the diamonds does not measure background radiation but counts atoms.

Diamonds might thus well be a creationist's best friend.


Sources:

DeYoung, Don. 2005. Thousands… Not Billions. Green Forest, AR: Master Books.

Ekholm, Virpi. 2008. Suurten kaivosten ehtyminen toi timanttibuumin Suomeen. Aamulehti 11 July, A5.

Sarfati, Jonathan. 2006. Diamonds: a creationist’s best friend. Radiocarbon in diamonds: enemy of billions of years. Creation 28:4, 26-27. You can read the article here.

Vardiman, Larry. 2008. Diamonds May Be a Creationist’s Best Friend. Acts & Facts 37:8, 6. (June 2008)