She starts off describing an afternoon in 1992, when she was a graduate student looking in a microscope at a thin bone slice from a newly excavated Tyrannosaurus rex fossil skeleton. In 2010, she wrote an article, “Blood From Stone”, in Scientific American which summarized her work to that point. Key discoveries in this area over the past twenty years have been made by Mary Schweitzer, now a professor of paleontology at North Carolina State University. Osteocyte Cells, Traces of DNA, and Iron as a PreservativeĪssessment of Evidence That Soft Tissue Can Persist for 70 Million YearsĪPPENDIX: CARBON DATING OF DINOSAUR BONES Mechanisms for Ancient Protein Preservation Rex BonesĢ006 Onward: Sequencing Proteins from Dinosaur Bones Here are the topics treated below:ġ992: Mary Schweitzer Sees What Looks Like Red Blood CellsĢ004: Schweitzer Finds Bits of Soft Tissue in T.
Is that really the case? Let’s turn to the facts. This verbiage makes the reader think that someone cracked open these dinosaur bones and found raw tissue flopping around inside, dripping with red blood cells. This sounds amazing – – “fresh”, “soft, squishy tissues” and “pliable blood vessels, red blood cells, and proteins”. Given the fact that organic materials like blood vessels and blood cells rot, and the rates at which certain proteins decay, how could these soft tissues have been preserved for ten thousand, let alone 65 million or more, years? Since many think of a fossil as having had the original bone material replaced by minerals, the presence of actual bone–let alone pliable blood vessels, red blood cells, and proteins inside the bone–is quite extraordinary. They seem so fresh that it appears as though the bodies were buried only a few thousand years ago. In recent decades, soft, squishy tissues have been discovered inside fossilized dinosaur bones. It is #3 on a list of “10 Best Evidences From Science That Confirm a Young Earth”, according to Answers in Genesis.Ī 2009 Institute for Creation Research article by B. This is a somewhat dramatic topic, which the young earth proponents have appropriated enthusiastically. The state of these discoveries changes every few years, so some of the standard science web sites have not kept up. Most of these claims have been around for several decades, and have long since been addressed by mainstream scientists.Ī relatively new area of controversy is the discovery of soft tissues in dinosaur fossils.
Holding to a literal interpretation of Genesis, young earth creationists circulate about a hundred of these arguments for a young earth. In an earlier article, “ Evidences for a Young Earth”, I discussed a number of proposed physical evidences that the earth is only a few thousand years old, rather than billions of years old. Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Fossils: Evidence for a Young Earth?
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