Christians: Do you believe in tree-ring timeline?

Question

Methuselah tree is more than 4000 years old.

Sean@ They don't believe in carbon dating. So wondering if they believe in dendrochronology.

Answer 1

Yes, I do.
I believe anything more than 1000+ scientist the world over agree is the most accurate means of dating something. I do not know how else to date an object, but to trust a system so many agree is accurate.
Peace.

Answer 2

I am a Christian. I believe in tree-ring timelines. I believe in carbon dateing. Isn't that a shocker?

The youngest date given by Christian creationists (yeah, there are lots from other religions and even some atheists, another shocker, I'm sure) is 6,000 years. This is plenty of time for your 4,000 year old tree to grow in.

If you actualy listen to the arguments of young-earth creationists (yeah, there are old-earth creationists that see the earth as millions of years old, yet another shocker), you will know that we do not dispute carbon dateing. Carbon dateing isn't even used to date things that are older then a few thousand years because the levels of C14 becomes too small to accuratly dectect in objects any older then this.

The older dates or arived at with the use of other radio-isotope dateing methods, such as potasium-argon dateing. These are the ones we dispute over their accuracy and their extreme varience in data results as well as the basic accepted principles guideing the meassuring radio-isotope decay and loss.

I am sorry if I come off as a little snippy, but there are few things that irritate me more than anyone who refuses to inform themselves on issues that a readily available just because they think they know it all already or becuase they are too scared that the other people might actualy be right. This goes for people on all sides.

Answer 3

I'm a Christian, and I believe in carbon dating. But I also believe that when God created the earth it took longer that "7 days", at least by modern standards. Yes, I know, morning came, night fell, that was one day. But the Bible never says how fast the earth was orbiting, etc. etc. Not to mention that the earth is never entirely light or dark. It's always half and half. But much of the old testament cannot be taken literally, especially according to the crude translations that have made it down the generations, through the word of mouth and constant re-writing and translating of time and all its languages, to us today. I do believe the earth was created by God, and that He made man in His image, but not until AFTER He made all the dinosaurs, then that comet came and blasted those biatches away so that when He created Man, those things wouldn't eat us! Not to mention, it gives us really cool $#!^ to dig up nowadays! ;-)
BTW, I also believe in evolution. When God created all the animals, He also created seasons, changing tides, etc. And He said, It is good. Well what's so good about something that is always the same no matter what? He created a constantly changing earth... So why couldn't He be smart enough to create animals so versatile that over time they could change to suit their environment...I mean, God and science are one in the same! He invented it, for cryin out loud!

Answer 4

I guess dendrochronology will now go the way of carbon dating as far as they (creationists, not all Christians) are concerned.

Answer 5

What do tree rings have to do with Christians?

Tree rings are a good thing for scientists to figure out what was going on in the world in the past, droughts, levels of CO2 and whatnot.

Answer 6

Whats wrong with 4,000 years old? Even young world creationist believe the world is over 6,000 years old.

Answer 7

I think most Christians accept Science.

As for the few that don't and instead embrace Creationism, I doubt their is any hope for them and they'll forever be living in self-imposed ignorance.

Answer 8

i dont think i've ever heard of it. but its interesting that it still lives, if it does.

Answer 9

Maybe their God grew them in his Heaven Garden.........