Discovery of world’s newest oldest tree means it’s time to revise the Bible.
In 1964, when a living bristlecone pine tree in California was determined to be almost 5,000 years old, it gave Bible literalists a big scare. After all, literalists (young earthers) believe that the earth is only about 6,000 years old. Was that bristlecone pine tree around for the "big flood?" Not quite: young earth adherents argue…