Posted on 08/14/2009 5:28:11 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer’s discoveries of soft blood vessels, proteins, various blood cells, and even DNA inside fossilized dinosaur bones have been met with extreme skepticism from the scientific community. It has been well established that such biological structures and molecules should not last beyond a few tens of thousands of years, and could not possibly survive millions of years. So why are they there?
Scientists have made multiple attempts to debunk Schweitzer’s findings...
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I noticed that in Sitka as well. Some lady told me that the biggest employer was the government in one form or another. You point about the out of towners working in the tourist spots is also spot-on. Many of the people working the souvineer stores were from out of state. Indeed, even our floatplane pilot was from Seattle! I kind of figured something like that was going on, but not being from or knowing much about Alaska, I wasn’t sure how much I should generalize from all the anti-war, anti-Palin/pro-Obama stickers, signs, and T-shirts I saw everywhere. Thanks for the info!!!
PS The cruiseline (Holland-America) I sailed to Alaska with is also completely leftwing. They had this whole, “we are the world” mentality, and their only news sources were the hard-left NY Times and CNN. Needless to say, I wrote complaints to the officers on board the entire trip, not to mention writing the same complain all over every category of the evaluation form at the end of the trip.
Oh so beautifully said, dearest sister in Christ!
Your lapidary insight goes straight to the foundation of Natural Law which is implicit in the very practice of the natural sciences.
Then again, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Thank you oh so very much for your outstanding essay/post!
“Oh yes, I plan on bringing it up every time there is a new development or article on the subject.”
—The only thing “new” in the article from the past ones on the subject was the inclusion that dna was found, which is wrong.
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Thats always puzzled me too. Seems to suggest the ancients did have knowledge in the memory of the cultural of the very things its claimed vanished long before they would have been able to become aware of them.
It is the Evos who made the argument. And as usual, they have been forced to eat their words, because God’s creation resists evo/long-age explanations:
‘The new finding will be viewed skeptically, admitted one of the researchers involved in the two studies. “It’s very, very, very controversial because most people have gone on record saying there’s an absolute time limit to anything that’s protein or DNA,” said Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist at North Carolina State University.’
http://www.livescience.com/animals/070412_dino_tissues.html
Thought you might be interested in #87.
All the best—GGG
Unidentified DNA most certainly was found inside the T. Rex bone. But the unidentified DNA has been found mixed in with fragments from fungi, bacteria, insects, etc...so at this point they can’t be sure that the unidentified DNA is from the dino.
Thank you oh so very much for your insights, dearest sister in Christ, and for your encouragements!
re: Schweitzer (a self-described Christian) explaining how awful creationists are and how they use her work to twist their own warped view of the world...
I notice no one responded to her words after 60+ replies on this thread.
More cognitive dissonance on display from the creationist crowd.
I love it.
Maybe it’s not worth replying to, like most of what the Braying Bunch disgorges.
Nowhere in the Bible does God or anyone else ‘state’ the Earth or Universe is 60,6000, or 600 billion years old.
Ah, yes... The ol’ conspiracy theory of science.
FYI, those “faulty dating technique” articles you’ve read discuss techniques used 40 years ago. Unfortunately for the creationists, science has marched forward and developed several very accurate dating techniques that are used independently of each other to verify the age. I know they don’t teach you that at the creationist sites you read, but it’s true.
And FWIW, if she found the tissue to be a) Mesozoic or Jurassic and somehow only 10K yrs old or so, she’d simply need to offer up some tissue for independent testing and then she’d be a rather rich and famous person on the cover of every magazine in the land.
I’m flummoxed as to how you don’t get that.
(A parallel: The cold fusion gang several yrs ago - IF they weren’t liars with cooked data and other scientists verified their findings, they’d have won the Nobel and become billionaires probably - for stating somethign previously thought to be impossible and for being mavericks in science. Young dino DNA would do the same thing (though not make her a billionaire).
You'd think they might wonder why she didn't lose her job or money or get mocked by her peers for announcing her discovery of soft tissue--you'd think if there really were such a strong conspiracy, she'd have buried that finding right quick. Instead, she published, and we're talking about her--think how much better known she'd be if she did prove the tissue was only 5K years old.
Darwinism: worst. conspiracy. ever.
Whatajoke:re: Schweitzer (a self-described Christian) explaining how awful creationists are and how they use her work to twist their own warped view of the world...
Someone who describes themselves as a Christian who believes in evolution complaining about how creationists treat her?
That's just par for the course. There's plenty of evos on this board who say the same thing she does. That's nothing new. What's the big deal?
I notice no one responded to her words after 60+ replies on this thread.
And just what would you like us to say?
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