This towering giant sequoia stretches 275 feet, about as tall as a 27-story high-rise building, and is 102.6 feet around. That makes it the largest (by volume) individual tree in the world. The general lives in the Sequoia National Park in California. Scientists believe this tree could be anywhere from 2,300 years old to 2,700 years old.
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The sheer girth of certain ancient, wizened trees can take one's breath away. Although the age estimates given for these antique specimens vary from a few to tens of thousands of years, the majority of them are consistent with a biblical timeframe for earth history.
The oldest individual still-living tree is in California. Appropriately nicknamed Methuselah, the hardy bristlecone pine from the dry and salty high elevation of Inyo National Forest is in a protected area.
Wired Science stated that Methuselah was 4,765 years old.
Why is Methuselah, or any other long-living tree, not a great deal older than this if the earth itself is millions of years old?
The very oldest known tree better fits a biblical age for the earth of thousands, not millions, of years.
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3. Schulman, E. 1954. Longevity under Adversity in Conifers.
4. Lorey, F. 1994. Tree Rings and Biblical Chronology.
5. Vardiman, L. 2008. A Dark and Stormy World.
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