Actually it has, though it certainly isn't normal. Read this amazing story from Discovery Magazine.
Other than that minor issue, I do agree with you that a 6,000-year old universe is not supported by the Bible or by the scientific facts. One can a single study or a string of studies based upon the same supposition, but when so many experiments performed by such a wide variety of people in so many scientific disciplines lead to the same results, those results cannot honestly be disputed.
Removal of the mineral phase reveals transparent, flexible, hollow blood vessels containing small round microstructures that can be expressed from the vessels into solution.
The Discovery Magazine article left out that first phrase for a reason. "Removal of the mineral phase" means demineralizing, dissolving the rock in a solvent.