Young Earth Creationism… a Spruce says “No!”

Young Earth Creationism is a belief in Biblical Inerrancy inspired delusion, nothing more, as it has no real evidence in its favour, bar a very particular school of interpretation of the Bible. And now we have direct proof that the world is more than a mere 6,000 years old…

World’s oldest living tree discovered in Sweden

The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden.

The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.

For many years the spruce tree has been regarded as a relative newcomer in the Swedish mountain region.

”Our results have shown the complete opposite, that the spruce is one of the oldest known trees in the mountain range,” says Leif Kullman, Professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University.

A fascinating discovery was made under the crown of a spruce in Fulu Mountain in Dalarna. Scientists found four “generations” of spruce remains in the form of cones and wood produced from the highest grounds.

The discovery showed trees of 375, 5,660, 9,000 and 9,550 years old and everything displayed clear signs that they have the same genetic makeup as the trees above them. Since spruce trees can multiply with root penetrating braches, they can produce exact copies, or clones.

The tree now growing above the finding place and the wood pieces dating 9,550 years have the same genetic material. The actual has been tested by carbon-14 dating at a laboratory in Miami, Florida, USA.

…thus any global Flood of Noah dates to before c.7,550 BC, at the very latest. So either Noah’s Flood wasn’t global, or else it was a lot further back in time than a narrow reading of the Bible allows. Of course for a lot of Fundamentalists there is no great drama in a Flood long, long ago. A geophysicist friend of mine, Glenn Morton, believes the Bible and based on his geological knowledge places the Flood at the Messinian – c. 5.5 million BC.

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