GodGunsStrawmen
It takes years for a tree to grow and usually years for them to die. That doesn’t make it getting blown down in a storm “controversial”. It just means that things don’t always happen the same way all the time.
Science recognizes that to be the case and finds nothing controversial about it. The most common accepted theory is that the black sea formed in a few days and nobody screams “controversy” over that.
It just sounds to me like someone is doing what liberals do. Putting words in the mouth of the opposition and attacking those rather than confronting the argument honestly.