— “Who says hte world was around millions of years ago?” —
I have read this in the handiwork of God. As I said upthread, with a wry smile, God makes trees.
Most trees are as individual as fingerprints, and even have a kind of fingerprint of their own. Each has a unique and informative pattern of growth rings.
Researchers trying to pin down the age of things began using this information provided by God many years ago, and have compiled not only an impressive record, but also an actual science called Dendrochronology.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Dendrochronology
Here is a link describing it, and showing how it relates to history, the study of antiques and historical buildings, ships, and artifacts, and actually leads to and buttresses such parallel studies as carbon-dating and the study of varves, which are the annual marks in sea and riverbeds.
The interesting thing about Dendrochronology is that you or anyone could do the same kind of research, slowly building your database and comparing it to the ones already established. You could independently confirm or show the falsity of their research.
Now, this kind of gospel reads a little differently from the King James version, but then Jesus spoke his wisdom in a slightly different way also.
I know about hte Dendro method, and it too is flawed- certain years, the trees accumulate two rings, sometimes even three- oher years, just hte one
[[and actually leads to and buttresses such parallel studies as carbon-dating and the study of varves, which are the annual marks in sea and riverbeds.]]
Meh- not so much- only out to about 6000-10,000 years- beyond that, it’s assumptions about past events that once again plague the process of dating-
It’s interesting that all the methods only go out to that far before they start running into problems eh?