John Woodmorappe breaks a sweat over bristlecone pines

[shernren]

Good article for reading between the lines with:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v4/n1/biblical-chronology-bristlecone-pine

Summary paragraph:

The 8,000-year-long BCP chronology appears to be correctly crossmatched, and there is no evidence that bristlecone pines can put on more than one ring per year. The best approach for collapsing this chronology, one that takes into the account the evidence from C-14 dates, is one that factors the existence of migrating ring-disturbing events. Much more must be learned about this phenomenon before this hypothesis can be developed further.
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I.e. postulate that some hitherto-unknown, unobserved hypothesis that all too neatly explains the data while making no other testable predictions, well, actually explains the data.

Hmm.

 

[The Barbarian]

Yep. The cartoon was spot on, um?

 

[RobertByers]

No problem
first this cross cheching thing is probably wrong.
there are s many option.
first after the flood men/animals lived longer. So why not pines. more rings indicating faster growth. Simple.
it was not witnessed and only present rates are witnessed. this is not science.

 

[champuru]

Yep. The cartoon was spot on, um?

Awesome

Do you happen to know who this cartoon is by?

 

[The Barbarian]

Well, the URL is :http://home.comcast.net/%7Efsteiger/cartoon.gif

So my guess is that it's E. F. Steiger.

 

[philadiddle]

No problem
first this cross cheching thing is probably wrong.
there are s many option.
first after the flood men/animals lived longer. So why not pines. more rings indicating faster growth. Simple.
it was not witnessed and only present rates are witnessed. this is not science.

You should let people know when u are being sarcastic. There are many people who will read your post and think there is something to it, while none of them will actually develope an understanding of how and why the science for this works. They will just walk around with a vague airy fairy notion that they know all about it when they know nothing.

 

[champuru]

You should let people know when u are being sarcastic. There are many people who will read your post and think there is something to it, while none of them will actually develope an understanding of how and why the science for this works. They will just walk around with a vague airy fairy notion that they know all about it when they know nothing.

I thought he was being serious!

 

[Fed]

Nice find. I wouldn't want his job. Imagine having to constantly come up with ideas to explain away mountains of evidence.