Scientists Discover World's Oldest Stone Tools

The Earth Institute ^ | 2015-05-20 | The Earth Institute

[OK Sun]

Another article, with more information and illustrations: Oldest known stone tools found in Kenya.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “If the universe is 10,000 years old, how come they keep finding these millions of years old objects?” <<

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Arbitrary, and capricious at best.

Anyway, the universe is not yet 10,000 years old, nor will it ever get that old. It is scheduled for demolition in about another thousand.
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[editor-surveyor]

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This is a “science” thread?

LOL!
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[editor-surveyor]

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I have a pile of “stone tools” like those in my back yard.

They were designed to scare off stray cats and dogs.
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[editor-surveyor]

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>> “I really feel sorry for these people.” <<

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Its OK, they get orgasmic over their own ignorance. It may be their only pleasure.
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[editor-surveyor]

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You got it!

Just about any pile of random gravel will exhibit the same variations.
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[editor-surveyor]

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>> Does that make us “we”? <<

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Do you have a frog in your pocket?
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[JimSEA]

“Lepre said a layer of volcanic ash below the tool site set a “floor” on the site’s age: It matched ash elsewhere that had been dated to about 3.3 million years ago, based on the ratio of argon isotopes in the material. To more sharply define the time period of the tools, Lepre and co-author and Lamont-Doherty colleague Dennis Kent examined magnetic minerals beneath, around and above the spots where the tools were found.

The Earth’s magnetic field periodically reverses itself, and the chronology of those changes is well documented going back millions of years. “We essentially have a magnetic tape recorder that records the magnetic field … the music of the outer core,” Kent said. By tracing the variations in the polarity of the samples, they dated the site to 3.33 million to 3.11 million years.”

It seems that the article has a very clear and understandable explanation of how the site was dated. Now, unless, of course you reject physics, geology and biology, the article makes a great deal of sense.

[OK Sun]

Proverbs 15:1.

May we get back to science?

[editor-surveyor]

You have to get to it before you can get back to it.

[Fungi]

Hogwash. One after another premise that have never been proven. Nonsense. Copernicus revisited.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “The Earth’s magnetic field periodically reverses itself” <<

That’s an idiot’s explanation for something much more sensible: Pieces get fractured off and rotated in tectonic fissures resulting in variation in magnetic orientation.

But some like fairy tales better than reality.

[Krosan]

Next to the stone tools was a strange black monolith of unknown material.

[OK Sun]

Proverbs 6:14.

[Fungi]

One more point please. Have you ever done the math on human reproduction in a 3 million year time frame? Try it, it does not make sense to put it lightly, to put it more truthfully and bluntly, it is nonsense from a scientific viewpoint. Use a base of two children per couple and a 25 year generation period. Do the math and get back to “us.” Thank you.

[JimSEA]

The evidence is in the polarity of the ocean floor. It is well supported by tectonic observations of the ocean bed. It’s in the rocks.

[JimSEA]

I see, do you have an article on plate tectonics that explains this and the observation behind it?

[catnipman]

I wonder if they looked anything like this:

[onedoug]

The Bible and science. God has given us the keys.

[Fungi]

"The evidence is in the polarity of the ocean floor. It is well supported by tectonic observations of the ocean bed. It’s in the rocks."

There have been numerous studies on the phialides of Penicillium and their relation to abaxial sporogenesis and the imminent collapse of the northern rockie mountain newt with regard to testicular cancer. It’s in the newt. Hey, I can spew out nonsense too.