Posted on 06/11/2021 11:51:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
At 563 carats, the Star of India is the world’s largest gem-quality blue star sapphire, and is approximately 2 billion years old. (Image credit: D. Finnin/Copyright AMNH)
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What does the legendary Star of India — a 563-carat star sapphire the size of a golf ball — have in common with a 35-million-year-old petrified redwood slab; a massive cluster of sword-like crystals that looks like it came from "Game of Thrones;" and a 5-ton (4.5-metric ton) stone pillar that can "sing?"
You can see all of them, along with 5,000 other amazing stones, in the newly renovated Mignone Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, which is reopening after a four-year closure on Saturday (June 12). There, one-of-a-kind precious gems appear alongside odd-looking rocks — some of which date to billions of years ago — that have been uniquely warped and twisted by extreme temperatures and pressures.
Individually and together, these objects tell a story of the diverse geologic processes that shape minerals on Earth's surface and deep inside our planet, beginning when the world was young and continuing to this day, museum representatives told Live Science.
Related: 13 mysterious and cursed gemstones
The Star of India, which formed about a billion years ago, was discovered in Sri Lanka in the 18th century. It is one of the best-known gems in the world, in part because it was famously and brazenly stolen from AMNH in 1964, along with several more of the museum's prized stones, by a pair of thieves named Jack "Murf the Surf" Murphy and Allan Kuhn, Smithsonian reported in 2014, on the heist's 50th anniversary. (The one-of-a-kind sapphire was recovered and went back on display in 1965).
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Or Gobekli Tepe... :)
Cravat pin......................
A day is as a thousand years and thousand years is as a day....................
2 Peter 3:8
New International Version
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
A day as a thousand years. 365 days x 1000 = 365,000 years. 365,000 x 4000 years = 1,460,000,000 years. Almost one and a half billion years; Peter was preaching the right ballpark figure.
I stand by by original comment. And BTW I am a geologist.
“Thousands of animals in the so called Cretaceous and Jurassic period still alive today”
Really? Name one. Non mammals or insects.
Gulf shrimp
Parrots
Rodents
I could go on and on it’s all in the fossil record but you weren’t interested in knowing about it
Search dr Carl Werner
I don’t have time for those that would rather chase dogma than asking questions till there are no more questions left to ask
And the search:
The programming of life
That will keep you busy for a while
Bump
Pommel cap for a broadsword...
GREAT IDEA!!! Why did I not think of that!
Hey, Undeaders! Red Badger has generously offered the Star of India for us to hijack (as it were) and since the tectonic plate is getting to be more sand than anything else with all the posts, we’re officially taking over this thread!
Thank you Red Badger!! You’re a true FRiend of the Undeaders! :o])
Since Tax-chick is at camp today, will someone please make sure her shower curtain makes it this time? Thanks!
Chocolate cookies and beverage of your choice in the mezzanine, as usual! Indulge! It’s Un-Friday!
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Looks like a nice place. Just so long as we can keep the anti-creationists from ruining everything.
T-c says she will follow the trail of breadcrumbs, so it would be nice if she could find her shower curtain at the end of it!
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Follow me for more ideas... Most of them, probably not advisable...
LOL! Leave it to you RDC!
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“I think many people are frightened of a God who could create a universe the is something like 13 billion years old. It is far more comforting to confine Him to a more readily graspable limit of 6,000 years.”
I’ll go ya one better and introduce you to a God capable of having made everything you see and think you have experienced just seven seconds ago without leaving a wisp of a clue that it hadn’t all been here forever.
Before you get dismissive — THINK about it. Think a long time. Because that’s THE ONLY version of this story that extricates us from Satan’s never-settled CREVO War.
And — more than any other element — Satan’s strategy in this debate is not to promote Evo, or Young Earth, or Intelligent Design — he’s not a champion of ANY of it; his sole goal to keep The Church distracted from its central focus: The Great Commission.
So far, he’s made a HELL of a lotta headway.
But I flipped the tables in his temple, scattering his distractions with this one argument, “SINCE (not “if”) God could have created everything in situ in a single instant at ANY point in perceived time, and SINCE (not “if”) there would be NO WAY to tell if or when, THEREFORE the ENTIRE CREVO debate is utterly useless and futile; gums flapping in the wind.”
Here, ya hear!
Welcome!!
Glad you made it! Did you find your Habitat OK?
So happy you’re here!! ;o]
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