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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form,
  • Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:01:11 +0500

On 20/04/2006 06:26, Karl Randolph wrote:
Oh man, the things we end up discussing on this group ;-)

Doing a googlewhack on dendrochronology, and looking at a few sites, dendrochronology has the same faults that beset other non-historical dating methods.

1) it is based on uniformitarianism. In the case of dendrochronology, we have no records that the climate has remained constant during the period those trees grew.

This is not true. I am not an expert on this either, but I know more than a little from Google searches. I am almost certain that there is no assumption that the climate has remained constant, only that, as God promised, the sequence of summer and winter, each once per year, has continued. So there is no reliance on uniformitarianism, only on what God has promised.

2) Only one ring is added per year. Yet it is known that, under the right conditions, trees can add two rings per year.

Yes, this is an assumption, and not always a valid one.


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