Dinosaur Shocker (YEC say dinosaur soft tissue couldn’t possibly survive millions of years)

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | May 1, 2006 | Helen Fields

[Coyoteman]

I'll match your link and raise you several:

ReligiousTolerance.org Carbon-14 Dating (C-14): Beliefs of New-Earth Creationists

The American Scientific Affiliation: Science in Christian Perspective Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens.

This site, BiblicalChronologist.org has a series of good articles on radiocarbon dating.

Are tree-ring chronologies reliable? (The Biblical Chronologist, Vol. 5, No. 1)

How does the radiocarbon dating method work? (The Biblical Chronologist, Vol. 5, No. 1)

How precise is radiocarbon dating?

Is radiocarbon dating based on assumptions?

Has radiocarbon dating been invalidated by unreasonable results?

Tree Ring and C14 Dating

Radiocarbon WEB-info Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

This is one of my favorite fields, so if anyone has any questions I will try to address them (on the morrow).

[Quark2005]

For example, blind cave fish are blind not only because they no longer need their eyes (since they live in darkness), but because a quirk in their biochemistry makes it so that by losing their eyes, they are able to smell better -- which is obviously a big help in a lightless environment.

Interesting - do you have a reference on this, or like development of vestigial organs/parts? (I'm curious to learn a little more.)

I've often wondered how natural selection leads to the loss of working structures (i.e. my incredulity needs some resolution on this issue).

[andysandmikesmom]

So many links, so little time...I am sure I will have some questions, but 'on the morrow' will certainly be too soon for me...but then I know where to find you, so no problem...thanks for the links...

[editor-surveyor]

It sure took long enough for them to write this cover-up piece. But they neglected the real 'meat' of the story. Most of the meat was outside of the bone, not inside.

No matter, truth is of no use to an evolutionist, and they even reinvent God himself around their evil belief system.

[Sofa King]

Thanks for the link, it was very interesting.

It's really sad to see discussion of such an awesome find aborted by the usual nonsense.

[Liberal Classic]

My mom used to raise collies. They were highly intelligent. She claimed that their vocabulary was upwards of 100 words. I believed her, and you could talk to those dogs as you would child, and they'd follow directions. It was amazing.

[Liberal Classic]

Lately, these threads have had discussions on two separate wavelenghts going at the same time.

[shuckmaster]

It is important for the sake of accuracy to emphasize that the samples removed from the fossil were indeed hard and mineralized, not soft like raw marrow as some sources have stated (based I believe on your misleading commentary).

Surely you're not suggesting that the pseudo science creationists would deliberately mislead the flock about the state of the evidence they're pretending to do scientific research on are you? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Why are the non-eyewitnesses claiming that the "meat" was on the outside?

[shuckmaster]

So you believe soft tissue can survive millions of years? LOL

So you believe the mineralized fossil was actually "soft"? LOL!!! I doesn't take to much of a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts to mislead you does it?

[jennyp]

There isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that if the three branches of our government were controlled by people sympathetic to the ACLU, within ten years religious believers in this country would be rounded up like cattle and liquidated to "improve the species."

Oh, you mean they'd use intelligently designed means to try to produce beneficial micro-evolutionary changes to an existing species?

Yes, I too would fear the prospect of those in power trying to intelligently design micro-evolutionary changes into our species.

[shuckmaster]

We found a fossil of a hominid, being eaten by an allosaurus dinosaur. Look at the picture.

Wow! That looks as real as a scene from an old Godzilla movie!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for your insights, TXnMA!

[shuckmaster]

But they neglected the real 'meat' of the story. Most of the meat was outside of the bone, not inside.

It's pretty obvious that most of the meat was in the story tellers bone head.

[Al Simmons]

NOW you have me REALLY confused!!!

[Right Wing Professor]

One other source of contamination by modern ¹⁴C is the mass spectrometer itself. High-vacuum equipment is made of stainless steel, and stainless is full of carbon. In addition, there is plastic tubing where the sample is introduced, CO₂ leaks from the atmosphere, etc.

One very persuasive experiment they did was to look at the 'age' as a function of the amount of carbon used. If using more sample results in the sample looking 'older', you have a problem!

(My wife is a high vacuum scientist. When I told her about the sort of thing Humphreys and coworkers were trying to do, she laughed, and said 'don't these guys understand systematic errors?')

[Havoc]

Hehe. Thanks for the ping. The march of Evolutionist desperation moves onward and downward. Can't wait for Coulter's new book. Evidently, she liked my tagline.. lol.

[ahayes]

That's it! I'm confiscating your cat for excessive cuteness!