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One for each year since the tree started growing.

I see no problem with this.


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2007-05-02 07:39:01 · answer #1 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 4 0

Hi, I'm a Christian:
The rings within the trunks of trees tell the ages of the trees. They can even tell if there was a drought as far back as hundreds of years (or more). Other ways to date the earth are used as well, and it has been proven that this earth is billions and billions of years old. I am sure thats true,
because the Bible declares it.
2peter tells of all three earth ages. That group that says the Bible states the earth is 6000 years old, well, I suppose they mean well, but they are as Biblically literate as a grapefruit, unfortunately.
There is no controversy between Gods Word and true Science. Absolutely none.
They are partners, not enemies.
The world's scientists and their hard work should be celebrated, not argued with.

2007-05-02 07:51:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

I'm not a Creationist but the explanation is the same, it's biological, it's an age determintaor as well as gives you idea of the climate at different years, it doesn't have anything to do with evolution. (I'd like to see someone argue that point, it didn't evolve to form rings, you would have to prove that by showing me a tree species that didn't have rings in the first place) However, if you want to relate it to something it should provide good data regarding weather changes, aka Global Warming evidence.

2007-05-02 07:39:55 · answer #3 · answered by jay k 6 · 1 0

I believe in Inteligent Design not creationism as presented by the average person.
The Hebrew word used for day in the Bible can represent a period of time and not nessesarily a 24 hr period.
Both the Bible and science give me many good reasons to believe the world is very old. And therefore tree rings give me no problem at all.

If you would like to know more about the scientific views of Christians who believe the world is very old check out
http://www.reasons.org/

It is run by
Dr. Hugh Ross he has an undergraduate degree in physics (University of British Columbia)
and graduate degrees in astronomy (University of Toronto)

Dr. Fazale Rana
Ph.D. in chemistry with an emphasis in biochemistry at Ohio University

And several other well learned men.

2007-05-02 07:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Maxine 4 · 0 0

Tree-ring dating (“dendrochronology”) is a subjective (not objective, hence not technically scientific) dating method. Results depend on who does the dating. Also, multiple tree-rings can grow in one year or none can grow at all. Fossil trees often have no growth rings.

Heather, science does not claim a 10 billion year history of the world. Such a claim is beyond its scope. It only claims that, if we assume that the present laws of nature were always in force, then the world is that old

2007-05-02 14:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by Steve 4 · 0 0

Creationism says God created the universe. According to this God still created DNA, Zinc, trees, Woody Allen, etc. Rings on a tree is part of the biological process of a tree's life. It doesn't prove evolution or disprove creationism. Maybe a more appropriate way to ask the question is asking about fossils in different levels of soil for each era.

2007-05-02 07:43:01 · answer #6 · answered by Elf 2 · 2 0

If you are attempting to ask how creationists can explain the scientific theory of the age of the world or the universe, then I would say that they would counter with aged creation. They would say that when God created the universe, He did so by creating it full grown so to speak. When He created Adam, Adam was an adult. Thus follows, when He created the universe, it was billions of years old. This is how you would explain very old trees, rocks, fossils, anything.

2007-05-02 07:44:03 · answer #7 · answered by future dr.t (IM) 5 · 0 0

I'm not a creationist, but the problem is that the oldest tree that has been cut down was less than 6,000 years old. Since creationists seem to think the planet has only been around for just over 6000 years, your tree theory won't help.

However, if you can expand your theory to also include ancient trees that have turned to rock (petrified), that probably would be interesting.

2007-05-02 07:38:58 · answer #8 · answered by CarbonDated 7 · 4 0

confident it is authentic,count extensive variety the rings and this supply you the age of the tree once you get to the middle of the tree you would be able to pick a magnified classification.each three hundred and sixty 5 days a tree makes new bark it is unhappy to confirm it is cut back down yet once you have too

2016-12-28 07:48:46 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Not defending either or; so to begin God as you may know him, does not necessarily have 24 hours in a day. Perhaps it takes 100 billion years to complete a day in his realm. God may have tried to explain to moses in the simplest form possible. much like when your parents explained about how the stork or the cabbage patch worked for explaining about babies. Thus the Bible and the idea of creationism are not really in conflict. The story of Adam and Eve is the Story of evolution for the then layman. you forget Galileo, sac rates and Einstein hadn't been walkin' around back then.

2007-05-02 07:48:10 · answer #10 · answered by mikey 2 · 0 1

so, young earth creationists say the world was created some 6000-7000 years ago. If you are talking about currently living trees: http://sonic.net/bristlecone/ how does this prove your point?

I know the earth is billions of years old but I don't see your argument?

edit: I had a quick chat with Radagast97 and am reading about dendrochronology. Fascinating.

2007-05-02 07:46:29 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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