Abstract
Secular scientists claim it's easy to disprove the Bible's 6,000-year history: just count the tree rings. But this dating method is not as reliable as you might think. "Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years.'" (Genesis 1:14) When you hear the name Methuselah, what do you think of? Many of us think of Noah's grandfather, who was 969 years old and the oldest man in the Bible. But others, especially those who believe the earth is millions of years old, might first think of a well-known bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains. It's named Methuselah and claimed to be 4,849 years old. These days Methuselah is the old-earth poster child of Bill Nye "the Science Guy" and other secular science debaters who say we have proof that the earth is older than the Bible says. Tree rings, ice cores, and other natural records of seasonal changes, they say, prove the earth is old and the Bible's account of history can't be true.