The Earth is More than 6000 Years Old!

Posted by Ethan on April 25, 2008
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Even creationists have said that if you find something that’s alive now that’s over 6000 years old, it would prove to them that the Earth is at least that old.

Previously, the oldest tree in the world was thought to be a Bristlecone Pine in California, known as the Methuselah tree, at 4,840 years old (as of 2008).

It’s huge! But you can also date a tree not by its trunk, but by its root structure. And as The Log Blog reports, Swedish researchers have found a tree on Fulu Mountain that is over 9,000 years old! Although it looks puny because its trunk dies every few hundred years or so and it grows a new one, analysis of its root structure using carbon dating in Miami, FL, shows it to be nearly 10,000 years old. Here is the “little guy” nearing his 10,000th birthday:

This story actually got picked up by the BBC news as well. Why don’t American news companies report stuff like this? What, are we too busy with breaking news? In any case, now when you run across people who tell you that the Universe is 6,000 years old, you can disprove them by showing them a tree.

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  1. #1 Scott
    April 25, 2008

    Anything that involves carbon dating is not going to convince a creationist.

  2. #2 Lucas
    April 25, 2008

    “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
    -George Carlin

    That is the simplest explanation to why the American media doesn’t bother with such discoveries.

  3. #3 Brian
    April 25, 2008

    This is interesting. I wonder if some coral reefs might also prove to be this old or older…

  4. #4 ethan
    April 25, 2008

    So if the Universe is 6,000 years old but this tree is pushing 10,000, does that mean it’s… older than dirt?

  5. #5 Amy
    April 26, 2008

    Older than dirt – funnnny
    I think that tree had a designer, therefore I have disproven your THEORY. =)

  6. #6 ethan
    April 26, 2008

    Amy,

    Sounds like you’ve been “teaching” again. Regardless of whether you think that tree was designed or not (and it wasn’t), it’s still over 6,000 years old. So at the very least, just knowing this tree exists forces you to change your beliefs if you want your beliefs to be consistent with the world.

    It would be like meeting a man who was 9,000 years old and told you about his life back then… you’d have a hard time convincing him that the world was younger than he was!

    Ethan

  7. #7 Tom
    October 17, 2010

    I think we should not limit our understanding based on the question of the age of the universe. Though the Bible is not clear on the age of the universe, it should be cleared that nowhere does it propose that it is just 6000 years old.

    I believe that the Creator created the universe billions of years ago. That put eternity into the equation. And eternity is a trademark of the Creator.

    Maybe the 6000 should have been the reference of the human civilization we know today…not the physical creation.

    This is the reason why I subscribed to the explanation put forth by Herbert W. Armstrong of the old WCG.