I couldn't leave this one alone:

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/world039s-oldest-living-tree-discovered-sweden-15937.html

The first thing I thought of when I saw this, sadly, was not "wow, what an awesome discovery!" but "Wait, isn't the world only 6,000 years old?".  As much as it would be a tragedy to harm these trees, I think we ought to take a core sample and count the rings on the trees.  What would surely follow is the sound of one thousand "thuds" as the creationists trip over themselves to refute the fact that the age of trees can be determined by counting rings.  Or, as my friend put it "The devil planted that tree to confuse us and test our faith."

Johnny Appleseed was the antichrist.