Come all ye believers of the world starting 6½thousand years ago -
"A zircon crystal found in Jack Hills, Western Australia, is one of the oldest crystals in the world. It's said to be 4.4 billion years old, forming not long after Earth itself! 
To date the crystal scientists used uranium-lead radioactive dating and a technique known as atom-probe tomography, that was able to identify individual atoms of lead in the crystal and determine their mass.
It measures only about 200 by 400 microns, about twice the diameter of a human hair. "
More information: [abc.net.au]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.WHAT?!?! No picture! just jokin'. Pretty cool.
silverotter11
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Dec 6, 2019
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There is a photo in the article.
Then again, an all-powerful god would have the ability to make it appear that the crystal is that old. 
Actually, humans could probably construct such a crystal at the level of tech we now have.
bingst
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Dec 6, 2019
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Complete with 4½billion year ageing?
@FrayedBear I don't see why not. As far as I know, it's about manipulating isotopic content. Years ago, IBM replicated their logo with individual atoms of... I think it was xenon, then took a picture of it with a electron microscope. I'm guessing that tech has only improved.
@bingst aha, Reality is an illusion: Everything is energy and reality isn’t real -
"It was obviously formed in the flood and can be no more than 6000 years old and probably was part of a unicorn's belly ring"
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