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ORIGINAL: Zuniceratops

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Good, here's a method for determining the age of a sample. We all agree that (more or less) we get one ring per year in a tree. No single tree has more than a few thousand years of rings. This is true.

However, individual years can be picked out due to greater or lesser rainfall, or fires. So that the same year can be identified in two different trees in the same area. This allows us to build up tree-histories, or dendrochronologies. Dendrochronologies for bristlecone pines go back 8500 years, while others based on different trees have been extended back further than 10,000 years. This falsifies Ussher-oid YEC chronology.

Well, I give evidence for a young earth, and you respond with evidence for an old earth.

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I must ask what's the point in giving evidence for a young earth when you will just respond "we know the earth is old because radiometric dating/etc. says so."

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There have been cases where's there's been more than one good match for a tree ring pattern.

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As for the carbon dating that's supposed to correlate with the dendrochronology...

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ORIGINAL: Carico


Never mind that no ancient culture has ever talked about ice covering the earth and over 200 ancient cultures have stories about a global flood, the whole goal of scientists is to deny the bible. So they'll make up any story they can think of to deny the bible, especially stories that no one in history can verify. Inf act, scientists know that the earth was once covered in water because there's so much evidence of it, that those who don't use the frozen water theory have claimed there was once a giant global tsunami. Anything but a flood even though the only event that's been verified by ancient tribes is a flood. That proves that scientists aren't interested in the truth, but simply to deny the bible.

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ORIGINAL: Veritas

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ORIGINAL: Carico


Never mind that no ancient culture has ever talked about ice covering the earth and over 200 ancient cultures have stories about a global flood, the whole goal of scientists is to deny the bible. So they'll make up any story they can think of to deny the bible, especially stories that no one in history can verify. Inf act, scientists know that the earth was once covered in water because there's so much evidence of it, that those who don't use the frozen water theory have claimed there was once a giant global tsunami. Anything but a flood even though the only event that's been verified by ancient tribes is a flood. That proves that scientists aren't interested in the truth, but simply to deny the bible.

Civilizations grew up near waters. It makes sense that there would be stories about floods, and many of the floods must have seemed global without the long distance communication we take for granted today. Have you compared these 200 stories of global floods with the story of Noah's flood? Most bear little resemblance to the Biblical flood. If they were all about the same flood, we'd expect they would be similar. They aren't. They are not stories about the same event.