The oldest living bristlecone tree is 4,767 years old -- that it, it germinated around 2765 BC. One that was cut earlier this century was 4,950 years old, dating back to about 3000 BC. A creosote bush in Arizona is thought to be 11,700 years old. The king's holly plant of Tasmania likewise reproduces asexually (it cannot produce germinating seeds) and in the specimen that has been studied, the process of self-cloning has been going on for at least 43,000 years.
These plants antedate the Flood that supposedly was also responsible for enormous geological changes those crazy scientists attribute to glaciation and gradual erosion.
But then there are the ice cores from Greenland and other places. Has the Society said anything about them? I'd not be surprised if they haven't because they disprove "Bible chronology" and the Flood myth in one fell swoop. These ice cores furnish a year-by-year record of the climate going back 100,000 or even 200,000 years. Instead of massive sediment-laying and catastrophic climactic and atmospheric change around 2370 BC, the cores show a period of stasis extending back to the last glaciation. And there are many ways to independently check the dating. Pollen contained within the ice cores can be carbon-dated; carbon dates going back 60,000 years were obtained for the Greenland core and were all in essential agreement with the matching ice-layer dates. This evidence, along with the Irish oak tree rings, helps calibrate more precisely existing radiocarbon dates. The counting of ice rings back to the 1600s has been verified by the measurement of beryllium-10 which matches historical records of sunspots. The sediment has been dated with uranium-thorium dating to 30,000 years which matches the ice ring count with a variance of less than 2%. Ice rings can also be compared against tree rings counted in dendrochronology; the former attests a volcanic eruption in 1645 BC (probably that of Thera in the Mediterranean), whereas the latter places the eruption in 1628 BC. The discrepency is thus only 17 years for a time depth of 3,600 years. The ice cores thus constitute a terribly devastating line of evidence against the religious belief that the Flood occurred only 2370 BC and the development of ancient civilizations after that date.
