how does a YEC explain trees that are 50,000 years old.

[OmarKhayyam]

Why didn't god provide us with pictures of those tablets? Would have been easy for him. Or maybe a whole bible, on permanent parchment with a gold binding and this really big autograph inside the front cover. Settle a whole lotta questions.

How come not? God too lazy?

 

[Anti-thesisofreason]

I do not know.
My guess is that since trees do not reach more than some 500 years (as far as I know) they should not have a problem with the tree rings.

As for the rest ... if you believe that earth is 6000 years old then by definition there can't be any acceptable method of age determination that now delivers results older than your limit.

Just a friendly FYI
Oldest living tree was found in Sweden at the ripe old age of 9550 years, close to the 10,000 mark but still not older. However the article explains "Trees much older than 9,550 years would be impossible in Sweden, because ice sheets covered the country until the end of the last Ice Age around 11,000 years ago,"
Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden

Edit: sorry a bit late with the info I see someone else posted the same. I guess I should have read the whole thread.

 

[Arlanbb]

FYI ~ Sweden does NOT have the OLDEST TREE. All they have is the oldest Roots of a Tree. The tree that is growing off the roots is a few hundred years old.

 

[Comicaze247]

how does a YEC explain trees that are 50,000 years old.

Why, God put them here to test us, of course!

 

[painted wolf]

FYI ~ Sweden does NOT have the OLDEST TREE. All they have is the oldest Roots of a Tree. The tree that is growing off the roots is a few hundred years old.

The stump sprout is still part of the tree.
It's just a younger part of the tree.

wa:do

 

[Anti-thesisofreason]

FYI ~ Sweden does NOT have the OLDEST TREE. All they have is the oldest Roots of a Tree. The tree that is growing off the roots is a few hundred years old.

Check the link I supplied. National Geographic said it not me.

 

[Arlanbb]

Check the link I supplied. National Geographic said it not me.

If you really want to get technical here is the last sentence in the article from NG.

Research suggests that stands of Huon pines on the Australian island of Tasmania possibly date back more than 10,000 years

 

[Autodidact]

But that's impossible! Those trees were flooded just 6000 years ago! Miracle time!

 

[Arlanbb]

But that's impossible! Those trees were flooded just 6000 years ago! Miracle time!

You have creation [6000 years] mixed up with the Genesis deluge @ 2450BC or about 4,460 years ago. The answer is very simple for this. THE WHOLE ISLAND FLOATED DURING THE FLOOD.:sorry1:

 

[ThereIsNoSpoon]

Just a friendly FYI
Oldest living tree was found in Sweden at the ripe old age of 9550 years, close to the 10,000 mark but still not older. However the article explains "Trees much older than 9,550 years would be impossible in Sweden, because ice sheets covered the country until the end of the last Ice Age around 11,000 years ago,"
Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden

Edit: sorry a bit late with the info I see someone else posted the same. I guess I should have read the whole thread.

Interesting.
I see the trunks do die of at some 600 years (according to the article supplied) while the root stock survived that long.
Interesting.
If I could replicate that mechanism with my brain as the focal point ...

 

[painted wolf]

Most trees will regrow trunks and limbs so long as the roots remain intact.
This is called 'stump sprouting' and it shows just how tenacious plants are... they can't run from danger so instead they have other tricks to outlast danger.

The brutal things that trees can survive is amazing.

wa:do

 

[Autodidact]

Most trees will regrow trunks and limbs so long as the roots remain intact.
This is called 'stump sprouting' and it shows just how tenacious plants are... they can't run from danger so instead they have other tricks to outlast danger.

The brutal things that trees can survive is amazing.

wa:do

But not being underwater for a full year.

 

[painted wolf]

I don't know if it's been tried experimentally....

But the flood supposedly left enough sediment to account for all the fossils, so it would have buried all the trees making the point moot.

wa:do

 

[Man of Faith]

Here is how I explain trees that are 50,000 years old, there aren't any because the earth is only about 6,000 years old according to the Bible.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Here is how I explain trees that are 50,000 years old, there aren't any because the earth is only about 6,000 years old according to the Bible.

You mean according to your literal interpretation of the bible. The six day creation story was not literal. A day could have been thousands of years.

Another explanation could be when the earth was created, everything was not a baby. Adam and Eve where adults, so the 50,000 year old trees where that old when they where created.

 

[Sunstone]

Here is how I explain trees that are 50,000 years old, there aren't any because the earth is only about 6,000 years old according to the Bible.

Are you sure you want to be irrational?

 

[Arlanbb]

Here is how I explain trees that are 50,000 years old, there aren't any because the earth is only about 6,000 years old according to the Bible.

It is so comforting to hear how Man of Faith can denie that the 50,000 year old trees do not exist. You no doubt denie that there are glaciers one earth that are from 25,000 to 500,000 years old and that there are tree rings that are from 8,000 to 11,000 years and counting. You are not interested in finding the truth about what science has found. The truth will make you free if you give it a chance.:clap

 

[Autodidact]

Here is how I explain trees that are 50,000 years old, there aren't any because the earth is only about 6,000 years old according to the Bible.

So basically geology, physics, biology, paleontology, anthropology, astronomy, cosmology, all out the window for you then?

 

[Reverend Rick]

It is nice to keep it simple.

I believe it is possible to believe in the Bible and still acknowledge science. I just don't hang on their every word like it is a religion. Science does not know everything after all.