Thank you. I may call on you to do more research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees
Still, at an estimated 5,062 years, it makes no sense that the Earth is merely 6,000 years.
5,062 Great Basin bristlecone pine
Pinus longaevaWhite Mountains,California, United States Oldest known currently living tree. Tree cored by Edmund Schulman, age determined by Tom Harlan.[6]