Comments on: At 13,000 Years, Tree Is World’s Oldest Organism

By: Fink

Fink — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:32:37 +0000

To Stewart Cowan…. don’t creationists think the world is somewhere between 5000 to 10000 years old. Not millions. As for climate change, this would be taken into account in all forms of dating, so yes this blows creation theories out of the water. As do the even older plants mentioned.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:14:50 +0000

Pah! It could tell us some things, but we could tell it how the universe got started, and when, and what is to become of it.

And yes, lets see how the creationists rationalise this, should be good for a laugh.

By: BathTub

BathTub — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:23:34 +0000

I can name at least 3 older plants.

The Kings Lomatia in Tasmania is around 43,000 years old.
Pando the Quaking Aspen as mentioned about is about 80,000 (and possibly much more) years old.
And a colony of Posidonia oceanica in the mediteranian is thought to be about 100,000 years old.

Then of course there is the Jellyfish that is essentially immortal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula

By: spiderabc1

spiderabc1 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:46:54 +0000

Next hippy tourist attraction I assume. How unfortunate. I’m sending big environment friengly hugs through the air waves too.

By: Stewart Cowan

Stewart Cowan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:46:45 +0000

@Fink: “That kinda puts a spanner in the theories of creationists doesn’t it?!”

Not at all. The tree isn’t millions of years old and the article says “If the age estimate it correct,..blah, blah…”

Maybe it’s not correct. Who says the climate in that part of California has always been the same. i.e. “successive periods of drought, frost, storms and high winds”?

By: Sebastián

Sebastián — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:17:34 +0000

This is absolutely unbelievable; 13 thousand years! 13 THOUSAND YEARS!

By: Jess xxx

Jess xxx — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:59:05 +0000

Respect the elderly…

Hug a tree

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:52:44 +0000

Absolutely wonderful! I simply cannot get my head around something being that ancient.
You just wish it could talk to us, don’t you? Imagine the things it has seen & could tell us.

LC x

By: charlotte

charlotte — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:46:53 +0000

woahh!! old!!! i have the urge to turn into a tree hugger haha x

By: @chrisfromdevon

@chrisfromdevon — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:43:48 +0000

wowzer if only it could speak!