In message 26 of the topic {Behavioural traits and created kinds} Faith responds:
Sure, but a creationist has to search for other explanations, you know, consider that probably these records were not always annual or something along those lines if they go back to before the Creation. 4844 years ago is before the Flood by most reckonings. So we have to consider that some trees survived it. The dove's bringing back an olive leaf suggests they did.
{AbE: However, this is off topic and I shouldn't have responded.}
Transfering response to this comment here:
The problem is not just "other explanations" but ones that are consistent with the data and show why the same climate correlations occur within different age dating layer counting methods in different parts of the world.
Of course.
Why are these methods so devastatingly accurate for the historical period? What changes to all of them to cause the same kinds of errors in different systems?
Each of the layer counting methods have ways to correlate them to global climate and in each case the global climate patterns are the same AND match those that are documented in history.
Yup, of course, but documented history of such things is very very recent, and there is every reason to believe that things were drastically different before the Flood.
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