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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form,
  • Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:32:27 -0500

Dear Bill,


I know of know of no facts that mankind is > 6K years old.

How about some trees? There's a bristlecone pine from the
Methuselah Walk in California that was 7,980 years old in 1979.
Its hard to have a tree is older than the earth it lives on :-)
It survived Noah's flood too! I've worked on that data and
the famous Campito Mountain bristlecone pine data too. It's
not quite as old -- 5,405 years in 1969.


HH: But this tree from the Methuselah Grove is apparently not that old. The figure given is five thousand years in a PBS program. However, a scientist has recently discovered one older, but I don't know how much:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2817methuselah.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/explore.html

HH: Actually the age seems to be 4,798 years for the well-known one:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/08/23/SC72173.DTL


Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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