Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <bsr15 AT cantsl.it.canterbury.ac.nz>]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Peter Kirk wrote:

> There are also a number of very serious technical difficulties with
> dendrochronological dating, especially of anything related to the Middle
> East - which is based on unpublished data. While I certainly don't
> reject such methods out of hand like Karl and James, neither do I accept
> that all questions have been solved by some marvellous scientific wizardry.
>

If you're concerned about the Middle East dendrochronological dating
a good web site is:-

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/dendro/

This covers the Aegean and Near East. As for unpublished data, I
offer no comment.

Harold Holmyard recommended the following site:-

>http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/docs/tree_ring.asp

It says early on:-

>However, when the interpretation of scientific data contradicts the true
>history of the world as revealed in the Bible, then it's the
>interpretation of the data that is at fault.

This is faith, not science. I offer no further comment.

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