The oldest trees we have in the world are Bristlecone Pines. They are dated 3,000-5,000 years old.
Or take Sequoias. In Sequoia National Park there is one named "President" that is 3200 years old.
Now these types of trees don't die of old age. They just keep growing.
So, why don't we have trees that are 7,000 years old. Or 10,000 years old. Or 20,000 years old? Why are they only as young as they are?
Answer: because of the Biblical Deluge, which was a worlwide cataclysm which occured exactly as the Bible said, sometime around the year 2241BC.
Quoting: Et Sano You're right, but wrong. It happened around 11,500 years ago and what spawned tales of Atlantis.
What happened around 3,600 years ago was something different, a global catastrophe but not a global flood.
There is no evidence of a global flood, only plenty of regional flooding. There would be huge silt deposits in odd places all over the earth for one and many other geological evidence of flooding in places that haven't seen bodies of water in millions of years.
Many of the bibles stories are metaphors of older religious stories and historical accounts long since lost. I am willing to believe that some of the more vague and allegorical accounts such as Genesis were very symbolic of an earlier lost history perhaps destroyed in the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago.
I'll have to respectfully disagree.
In fact, the sedimentary record demonstrates that there was a worldwide cataclysmic flood.
For starters, we find marine fossils on the tops of every mountain worldwide. Take Mt. Everest. When Sir Edmund Hillary reached the 26,000 ft level he stuck his pick into the ground to pull himself up and noticed sea shells. In fact, there are thousands of sea shells on Everest from 26,000 ft all the way to the summit. These shells were found petrified in the closed position (when a clam dies it opens) meaning that they all died while still alive in a cataclysmic event.
Secondly, 75% of the Earth's crust is sedimentary rock laid down by water in which we find sedimentary rock and graveyard fossils worldwide. In these worldwide fossil graveyards we find the bones of all kinds of animals compressed together layer upon layer demonstrating that there was indeed a worldwide cataclysmic flood. Animals that should not even be found together were found all together in these massive graveyard layers.
Then you have the evidence from coal beds and oil deposits. Some strip mines have coal seams up to 200 feet thick. It takes 3 meters of vegetation to make 1 foot of coal, so these 200ft seams would require 1800 feet of vegetation, quickly covered by mud, to form them. And that is just one seam! This implies a massive cataclysm.
I am also reminded of the many ancient utensils and artifacts that are found in coal seams worldwide. For example, the cast iron pot found in a coal seam in 1912 at the Municipal Electric Plant in Thomas, Oklahoma. Or the bell found inside a coal seam in 1944 by Newton Anderson in West Virginia. Or the metallic vase that was discovered in a solid sedimentary rock by miners in 1851 in Dorchester, Mass. The list goes on. According to our enlightened evolutionary scientists, these coal seams and layers are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old. Yet we continue to find civilized artifacts in these layers. That's because these layers are not very old but instead were created only several thousand years ago during the rapid, cataclysmic destruction of the Deluge which trapped the bones of ancient animals and the relics of ancient peoples in sedimentary layers.
Besides being found in massive quantities, fossils are often discovered in incredible states of preservation. Fossils have been found of marine reptiles giving birth, eggs with preserved embryos inside them, fish eating other fish, and even fossilized animal droppings. This mass preservation is difficult for materialists to explain because it is not the natural order. They often postulate local floods as a mechanism of fossilization, but it is fair to say that no flood, tsunami, or hurricane in recorded history has preserved the remains of organisms in the quantities and state of preservation seen in the fossil record. The Deluge is the culprit.
