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There's a buttload of data against creationism. There are living trees older than the typical date given for the creation.
by wat10000 7mo ago
There's a buttload of data against creationism. There are living trees older than the typical date given for the creation.
- vscode-rest 7mo agoOldest tree I see is reported as 5,000 years. Common creation date is held to be roughly 6000 years ago. Not that I think the age estimates folks have has much basis is reality. But this is a particularly empty nothing-burger.
- wat10000 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees I’m sure you’ll say the older ones are wrong, of course.
- vscode-rest 7mo agohttps://www.conservation.org/news/methuselah-still-the-worlds-oldest-tree https://www.conservation.org/news/methuselah-still-the-world... Why do these disagree? Are the metrics perhaps under some debate, even amongst the Scientists?
- wat10000 7mo agoThat one isn’t counting clonal trees.
- vscode-rest 7mo agoOk. Not really sure what you’re getting at here tbh. But I assume you have read some paper that said that this tree had some isotope of some material, and you’ve taken that to mean the earth is older than 6,000 years?
- wat10000 7mo agoThere are trees much older than 6,000 years, I provided a link with details, and you don’t know what I’m getting at?
- vscode-rest 7mo agoNo, you have data that you’ve interpreted to mean that the trees are older than 6,000 years old. What is that data, and why have you interpreted it in that way?
- wat10000 7mo agoThe cool thing about Wikipedia is that the bottom of every article has a bunch of references.
- vscode-rest 7mo agoSo you don’t know. But you have faith someone did their homework. Me too!
- wat10000 7mo agoIt's not faith when a bunch of different people all did the homework and came up with the same answers. Especially when they're all part of a system that rewards new discoveries, and they did the homework in very different ways. There are mountains (both literal and metaphorical) of evidence for an old earth. The only evidence for a young earth is a book which contradicts its own creation story in the first two chapters.
- vscode-rest 7mo ago[dead]