CMI Don't Have an Office in Sweden, So, I Looked for One of AiG ... and Found Sth Else

Google search:

answers in genesis sweden

Hit:

Oldest Living Tree Located In Sweden
on April 19, 2008 | [someone on AiG]
https://answersingenesis.org/geology/carbon-14/oldest-living-tree-in-sweden/

It's about Old Tjikko. I've written about Old Tjikko previously, appropriately on my Swedish Blog:

På Svenska og på Dansk på Antimodernism: Huru gammal är Old Tjikko?
https://danskantimodernism.blogspot.com/2017/02/huru-gammal-ar-old-tjikko.html

Now, 9550 BP I got to somewhat after Babel, but with an old table. I'll recalibrate with my most recent one:

9550 - 1950 = 7600 BC

2511 BC

54.143 pmC, dated as 7583 BC

A very important part of the difference is, back in early 2017 I hadn't yet made the connection that if Jesus is born 2957 after the Flood and 2015 after the Birth of Abraham, as this means Abraham was born 942 after the Flood, it must also mean Peleg was born (and Babel ended) 401 after the Flood. It's Septuagint without the Second Cainan. And back in early February 2017, I hadn't figured that out. Hence the confusion on this old post:

If Göbekli Tepe is Tower of Babel ...

Of which the above linked post on Old Tjikko depends.

However, let's go to my newest version, appropriately (considering what chronology I use) from Christmas:

Newer Tables, Flood to Joseph in Egypt

That's where you find above quote. The old post means Old Tjikko's oldest surviving root is somewhat after Babel. My new calibration means it is from 45 years after Babel.

Now, there is a real good takeaway from the AiG post:

Did you note that the variable wasn't ¹⁴C decay rate (as per Setterfield), but ¹⁴C production rate, which I agree with? Nice, as a sudoku solver says when solving and solving and solving ...

Some persons from Sweden need to get on board with (or leave me alone) that "total content of consensus science" does not equal "observed fact". Any school (including the ones that now carry near consensus among scientists) will produce results depending on observed fact, logic, some kind of world view or ideology. It follows that the results of any school can be wrong, not from insufficient observation, nor necessarily even from bad logic, but from badness of world view assumptions. And since world views don't necessarily improve as facts accumulate, that can equally be the case for the school which at present carries consensus.

Someone growing up in Sweden now will arguably know that Marco Polo knew of pasta even before visiting China. But he will have a scarier overall worldview than I had. The cure isn't to curb the flow of facts on the internet, it's to fight back on the world view issues, and that takes the internet to get things done, mostly these days. Though I'd prefer my writings were available in print as well, which could earn me money and make access less dependent on the whims of internet censors.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Augulus of ...?
7.II.2025

Augustae, cui nunc Londini nomen, in Britannia, natalis beati Auguli Episcopi, qui, aetitis cursu per martyrium expleto, aeterna praemia suscipere meruit.