A Question About Deception

Your analogy isn't complete. To make it complete we would need the deliberate addition of details which provide evidence of age but have nothing to do with the process. Say, perhaps there was evdence that insects had laid eggs on the plants which hatched (empty egg cases), fetd on the plants (signs of insect attack) and metamorphosed into adults (empty pupae) - even though the process didn't affect insects at all.Would that be deception ?

is off topic. However your argument is not based on dendrochronology - it's contradicted by dendrochronology. Think about it. Or start a ew topic if you can't work out why.t