it. He believed that Nature could anticipate and direct the needs of an organism and the interplay between different organisms.
It is irrational to deny the existence of God yet give Nature “God” like qualities.
I have a question: If the earth is hundreds of millions of years old, why is the oldest tree only thousands of years old?
The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden.
The oldest living tree “Methuselah” is 4,768 years old and grows in California, USA.
Prometheus was the nickname given to the oldest known Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, which had grown on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, USA. The tree was likely at or over 5000 years old when cut down in 1964
King Clone is thought to be the oldest Creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert. It has an average diameter of 45 feet and reaches up to 67 feet in diameter. At an estimated 11,700 years old, it is possibly the oldest living organism on Earth.
The point is that the ages of these plants infer that the earth’s age is tens of thousands rather than hundreds of millions of years old.
Another question: If evolution has happened, why does ageing occur, as though pre-programmed into every living cell? We should expect the “organism” to want as long a life as possible to pass on its genes as much as possible. (This is the sort of statement made by Darwin giving organisms not only amazing intelligence and foresight but also the power to change themselves for the better. Since humans, the supposedly highest evolved “organisms” are incapable of this, the rest of the less highly evolved “organisms” have got no chance.) As well as ageing, why are all animals and plants
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