Per D&C 77:6, which states in plain language that the earth is 7,000 years old.
What are we to understand by the book which John saw, which was sealed on the back with seven seals?
A. We are to understand that it contains the revealed will, mysteries, and the works of God; the hidden things of his economy concerning this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence.
Oldest living thing on earth' discovered Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old.
ustralian scientists sequenced the DNA of samples of the giant seagrass, Posidonia oceanic, from 40 underwater meadows in an area spanning more than 2,000 miles, from Spain to Cyprus.
The analysis, published in the journal PLos ONE, found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old. This is far older than the current known oldest species, a Tasmanian plant that is believed to be 43,000 years old.
Prof Carlos Duarte, from the University of Western Australia, said the seagrass has been able to reach such old age because it can reproduce asexually and generate clones of itself. Organisms that can only reproduce sexually are inevitably lost at each generation, he added.
"They are continually producing new branches," he told The Daily Telegraph. "They spread very slowly and cover a very large area giving them more area to mine resources. They can then store nutrients within their very large branches during bad conditions for growth."
The separate patches of seagrass in the Mediterranean span almost 10 miles and weigh more than 6,000 tons.
But Prof Duarte said that while the seagrass is one of the world's most resilient organisms, it has begun to decline due to coastal development and global warming.
"If climate change continues, the outlook for this species is very bad," he said.
"The seagrass in the Mediterranean is already in clear decline due to shoreline construction and declining water quality and this decline has been exacerbated by climate change. As the water warms, the organisms move slowly to higher altitudes. The Mediterranean is locked to the north by the European continent.
"They cannot move. The outlook is very bad."
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This just proves that the earth was "organized" from existing materials. That's why there are dinosaur bones too.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
I think the article is saying the this old grass is still currently alive today.
Who said God took only materials from planets that had previously blown up to assemble the Earth? Maybe God liked the sea grass from planet Zork so much that he transplanted some of it to the Mediterranean 7000 years ago while he was forming the Earth. Of course, to most of us that would seem ludicrous, because this would have mortal sea grass being transplanted into an environment that was immortal, being prior to the Fall and all. I guess BCSpace wouldn't have a problem with it though. How could he have known?!?
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MrStakhanovite wrote:How does one measure the age of Sea Grass?
You just ask it how old it is...kinda rude, but efficient.
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