(These aren't made too far from there either, great saws)
Posted on 04/16/2008 11:32:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Druids would consider it the original god?
What fascinates me about trees is their ability to act as a coherent whole, rather than as an agglomeration of discrete parts. Trees lack a brain or control system comparable to a nervous system in mammals. So what drives the "ability to push out another trunk as the other one died"?
I've also noticed an interesting phenomenon in trees when a new house lot is carved out of the woods. A tree that was formerly surrounded by other trees is left standing alone. Over the course of several years the tree's upper branches will die off, while the tree shoots out lower branches. It takes less energy to pump water half-way up the tree, so this phenomena makes sense for the health of the tree as a whole. But how does this mechanism work? How do scientists explain this phenomenon?
These phenomena seem to me to be evidence of the vegatative form or " vegatative soul."
(These aren't made too far from there either, great saws)
This looks to be a picture of it, from sciencedaily.com.
God made the tree. He programmed the DNA sequence. It works. I do not question how or why.
Pruning the lower limbs of trees, lower than about 6 feet, will stimulate new growth at the top and bush out the sides.............
“9,550 year old spruce ... with the dramatic climate changes over time.”
Not possible, the world has told us America causes global climate changes.
Well, in Sweden, the sun does not go down in the summer and the sun does not appear in the winter. Sooooo, From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 in Sweden, it's like 3 years already!
Therefore a 9,550 year old tree in Sweden would only be 3,183 years old in the US!
Thats an easy one. Scientists, with fool proof science, found that by using the fool-proof technology of carbon 14 dating combined with the foolishly simple, error free science of dendrochronolgy, have conclusively shown that the trees are much older than anything else on earth. So put away your doubts, for THEY know all the answers, and we mere fools are not allowed to question THEM. And besides that, an equally wise and benevolent journalist is reporting these findings! /s
An independent study of carbion 14 dating and of dendrochronology, combined with a healthy skepticism, will cause you to be very cautious with regard to bold claims like these.
Now we need to find the world’s oldest dog..........
Maybe they are Jewish trees!...............
Sounds Entish
...or 66,850 dog years.
Could you back up this statement concerning carbon-14 dating with some facts please.
And don't just cut and past from creationist websites. They lie.
(Make it good; I have some background in the field.)
That really happened here in the US - in the white mountains of Nevada there was a tree, affectionately dubbed WPN-114, they wanted to age. Often this is done by extracting thin cores, which doesn’t harm the tree, but on this occasion the precision drill bit broke, so rather than wait, they just lobbed it down in chunks. Bristlecone pine.
That is the post of the day!
A thinking (and yet still literal) theologian would answer)the same way Adam was 35 when created: God created the world “old.”
“Now we need to find the world’s oldest dog..........”
Funny....my wife just called me that this morning!
Militant
Sweden???
It was time traveling Republican americans that did that.
They went back in SUVs and also drank beer and farted.
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