Re: ID and YEC in Switzerland and "Thousands not Billions"

On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:07:36 -0500 Mervin Bitikofer <mrb22667@kansas.net>
writes:
> D. F. Siemens, Jr. wrote:
>
> >...snip
> >
> >Closer to your home is a fully anchored chronology based on river
> oak
> >trees from South Germany (from the Main and Rhine rivers) which
> extends
> >back more than 10,000 years. Apparently the trees were growing in
> situ
> >before the earth was created. I didn't realize the extent of the
> miracles
> >involved.
> >
> >I'm sorry that I didn't try to locate the journal reports.
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >
> Can you elaborate on this? I hadn't heard of the river oaks and
> also
> would like to know what 'fully anchored chronology' means.
>
> --merv
>
I can't tell you anything about the species of European oaks. I have been
on the Rhine, but the guide noted castles, not flora. All I can do is
repeat the statement I encountered.

Tree-ring chronologies are floating or anchored. The latter are tied to
the calendar, a specific ring to a specific year. Bristlecone pine
chronologies are anchored because we know the date when a recent tree was
cut down and can count from there, extending the count to fallen trees by
matching sequences. Floating chronologies are internally consistent
counts, but cannot be associated with a specific year.
Dave
Received on Sat May 20 23:33:39 2006