PRESERVED T. Rex Soft Tissue RECOVERED (Pic)

Star Tribune ^ | 03.24.05 | Randolph Schmid

[wallcrawlr]

WASHINGTON — For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.

If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.

"We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising,'' she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.

The soft tissues were recovered from the thighbone of a T. rex, known as MOR 1125, that was found in a sandstone formation in Montana. The dinosaur was about 18 years old when it died.

[bondserv]

God married them and told them to start having babies. Strange thing to say and do with a couple 6 year olds.

Most scholars believe the age of 30 is God's idea of maturity because it is when a man can begin a ministry, as did Jesus Christ.

[MitchellC]

Want to show me any living or historical persons who lived even 150 years?

Historical? You just mentioned one by name.

Seriously, what kind of metal contortions must one go through to believe in a 900 year human lifespan, when all our experience and medical knowledge tells us 100 years is a long time for a human to live?

The deranged contortion of believing that there's a God, of course. All "our experience" really just means "everything I've heard that I agree with," bub - I'd like to know why naturalistic postulations on historical matters are given greater weight than the historical record on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Hey, be a good sport for once - take a chicken challenge!

[Right Wing Professor]

Historical? You just mentioned one by name.

No. Fanciful myths don't count. Please also exclude Zeus, Zoroaster, and Gilgamesh.

All "our experience" really just means "everything I've heard that I agree with," bub - I'd like to know why naturalistic postulations on historical matters are given greater weight than the historical record on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

The historical record on Jesus is actually very limited.

[oremites]

God married them and told them to start having babies. Strange thing to say and do with a couple 6 year olds.

Most scholars believe the age of 30 is God's idea of maturity because it is when a man can begin a ministry, as did Jesus Christ.

At what age did people marry in historical times? Have children? You'll find that the age can be pretty young.

Even if God's idea of maturity is 30, how does that have anything to do with what age Adam was when he was created? The Bible does not say Adam was created as a mature man.

[Sender]

And then we'd have all the complaints of car/rex collisions at night, and you know how bad those can be. Then the liberals would grudgingly allow a limited hunting season.

[VadeRetro]

Obviously, HE has a belly button.

[bondserv]

When believers get to heaven, we will receive glorified bodies that will be eternal. My guess is if we will be like Jesus Christ He will give us bodies around 30 years mature. Those 100 year olds won't be hobbling around the Gold Streets. :-)

This is another reason Adam was probably in a 30 year mature body at his creation. Obviously the Bible doesn't say, so this is speculation. Speculating is part of the fun.

[Sender]

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, no doubt.

[VadeRetro]

But now He's forming all the animals out of dust on Day Six! Isn't that seriously wrong?

[oremites]

When believers get to heaven, we will receive glorified bodies that will be eternal. My guess is if we will be like Jesus Christ He will give us bodies around 30 years mature.

You make good points here, but, again, this has nothing to do with Adam's creation. Adam was not created to be in heaven but to be the father of the human race. What age should he be at creation accomplish that goal? God certainly knows, but any guesses on our part are, as you say, speculation.

Thanks for the discussion, but I have to go now. It's been fun.

[Junior]

Man, that Adam was one busy dude on the sixth day. He named all the millions of critters in the world and still had time for major surgery.

[bondserv]

Until next time.

One last thought, Adam would not have aged (no curse) and died (no wages of sin) if he hadn't disobeyed God.

It has been fun, thanks!

[bondserv]

He may have named only the kinds of animals, and microevolution took it from there, variating and adapting within those set limits.

[Havoc]

Next we'll find out T-Rex's cause global warming, then they'll have a "real" excuse lol

[R. Scott]

It would have had to have been acidic sand to provide the oxygen free environment.

[R. Scott]

One of the earliest nests found (if I remember rightly) was in the Gobi Desert. It was theorized that the nesting ground was buried by a collapsing sand dune.

[muawiyah]

Gotta' be the original text as copied faithfully by an acceptable scribe.

Otherwise you can't trust it since people keep putting commentaries into it, or at the bottom of the page.

[Casloy]

Reminds me of the old Far Side cartoon with one guy in a labcoat eating lunch and chugging his drink while the scientist across the room is saying, "What happened to my ameobic dysintery sample, this is lemonade?" Just substitute chicken McNugget for lemonade.

[muawiyah]

A day was about 575,000,832.279 of our years long at that time, right?

[muawiyah]

Actually, it was Adam Linneaeus, or something like that. Had a whole system for it too. 'fraid the old man died before he got through the bugs. We're still working on that eh?!