If the world is only 6000 years old how do they explain this

[doggie]

Ok this is the oldest living tree it is 9500 years old. simple math proves it. But I guess people were mistaken when they counted the rings or the devil planted it to throw off christians. There are other 3000+ year old trees on the link.

 

The world’s oldest known living tree sprouted sometime during the last Ice Age, roughly 9,550 years ago. This 16-foot spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden may look more like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, but don’t be fooled: this little guy’s root system got started back when the British Isles were still connected to Europe by an ice bridge. According to Wired, geologist Leif Kullman, who discovered the tree, named it after his dead dog.

 

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[0KidsAndHappy]

It's there to test my faith, okay?!

:lol:

[Kitty]

The devil planted it as soon as he could, and then borked the math to lead people away from God. Duh.

[debrand]

Creationist will want to know how the scientist could know for a fact how old the tree is without having been alive when it sprouted. Or, they will ignore the article as something written by those godless Europeans who are in a conspiracy to disprove god's existence so that they can have guilt free sex.

[doggie]

It's there to test my faith, okay?!

:lol:

lets hope your faith is bad at math. :P

[doggie]

Creationist will want to know how the scientist could know for a fact how old the tree is without having been alive when it sprouted. Or, they will ignore the article as something written by those godless Europeans who are in a conspiracy to disprove god's existence so that they can have guilt free sex.

Yep but since all they have to do is count the tree rings from the core sample that would be hard to discount. of course they will but still.

[formergothardite]

Math is from the Devil. So counting rings cannot be trusted.

[doggie]

Math is from the Devil. So counting rings cannot be trusted.

only multiplication is biblical

[Clementine]

That Swedish geologist is probably an atheist and lying through his teeth just to mock the Bible!

[FJismyheadship]

I have a friend who believes this stuff. I told him about the tree and he said it was either a lie or a mistake. I should probablysafe he isn't a fundid and our friendship has nothing to do with religion thank goodness... We just agree to disagree most times.

[Aurora]

Poor tree. Surviving all those years just to be insulted by humans! :|

[snarkbillie]

Obviously this tree's rings are different than other tree's rings and thus the count is screwed up. :twisted:

[salsa]

Cut it down; we need a Wal Mart.

[Rachel333]

The real answer they would give: it was created that way, so even though it look older it really isn't, like how Adam was created looking and acting 30 years old when really he was only a few hours old.

That's right, we're looking at one of God's original trees, designed directly by him. :D

[CanadianHippie]

"Santa"... I mean "Satan!"

[BlackHawk]

only multiplication is biblical

LMAO.. this one cause me to honestly laugh. Niiice.

[CanadianHippie]

Pando is a grove of Quaking Aspen that are all genetically identical because they are direct off shoots of the same tree that sprouted something like 80,000 years ago.

[gardenvarietycitizen]

The real answer they would give: it was created that way, so even though it look older it really isn't, like how Adam was created looking and acting 30 years old when really he was only a few hours old.

That's right, we're looking at one of God's original trees, designed directly by him. :D

Came in here to post this. The theory is that God created the world instantly as already old, for whatever reason.

Another popular theory (I've seen it more on Jewish boards) is that THIS instance of creation happened 6000 (well, slightly less - this year is 5772!) years ago, but there may have been other worlds before this one, and the old stuff is remnants from those earlier worlds that God left behind. I guess he's a no-till sorta guy :)

Some people also say that nature (how the world works) has "changed" a few times since Creation, this supposedly explains why people in the early books of the Bible were able to live to 900+ years old, but we don't. So if those old trees were around, their ages would be distorted too.

These theories are for old things found on the Earth. When it comes to light-year distances and whatnot, they'll use the "the universe was created old" thing, but ALSO another theory that says that the speed of light has actually changed over time (another instance of "nature has changed").

[Swamptribe]

They explain it by claiming that Science is wrong, just because it disagrees with their narrow interpretation of the bible.

[TMS]

Easy. They say that God can create a tree that appears to already be 9500 years old. Or stars that seem millions of light years away. And so on! Duh!!!!

[doggie]

They explain it by claiming that Science is wrong, just because it disagrees with their narrow interpretation of the bible.

but it is not science just simple addition. If your faith requires denying math you are in big trouble.

[Elle]

Creationist will want to know how the scientist could know for a fact how old the tree is without having been alive when it sprouted.

Yet these same nut-cases somehow know god has no beginning though they weren't around when he, uh, didn't begin, nor were they around when Jesus supposedly rose from the dead.