Posted on 03/24/2005 12:04:54 PM PST by 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.
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People don't want to hear that.
It might destroy their godless hypothesis.
Maybe 5,000 or 6,000?
The originals weighed in at 6,000 to 8,000 pounds.
Ok, all I want to know is when I can get a deer/dinosaur combo hunting license...
Whether or not the items reported are impossible or not depends, to some degree, on how you interpret Sumerian.
Much more is known about the language these days.
Actually, the "historic record" of almost everybody who lived before 538 AD is pretty thin stuff.
Why couldn't soft tissues survive 70 million years?
God doesn't have to come out and say the exact words that non-believers demand to still have said them. You can sit back and demand to be shown the word trinity but all you do is close yourself to what the bible says. Jesus often criticized people for not understanding what the bible said to them though it was not said clearly. The 7 brothers marrying the same girl is a good example. He criticized them for not reading closely and reading between the lines.
So are you people saying the bible says that Adam was created as an infant? I'll argue that as much as I'll argue that God is male. Not at all.
My sons would like to know that too. Dino's were the first animals they 'hunted' when they got big enough for toy guns.
You left out, in a universe that He created.
"Why couldn't soft tissues survive 70 million years?"
Tell me, you're not serious, are you?
This is a joke, right?
"Why couldn't soft tissues survive 70 million years?"
I can't resist.
Tell me how soft tissue COULD survive for 70 million years.
Now, if you want an interpetation, let's take a look at Jesus, the "Second Adam". He came as a child and was cared for by His mother.
Hmmmm.
Was the Second Adam a lesser sort of being than the First Adam?
You can start any time you wish.
I'm afraid you are now faced with an example of such tissues, so tell me why the scientists now studying those tissues are delusional.
It was unexpected.
A single sample is sufficient to say "Hey, baby, it happens".
Your assertion to the contrary is the one that requires some other sort of evidence.
This reminds me. I haven't heard from my ex mother-in-law in a while.
That was the basis for a really good twilight zone episode.
A complete hoax. I viewed this at a Chinese buffet restaurant. It was languishing in an aluminum pan, between the pork fried rice and the General Chung's chicken.
Actually, it's pretty hard to have 'dominion' over animals even if you are mature. Have you ever owned a cat?
I have no problem with those who believe in creation. I also have no problem with evolution. If in fact you believe in an all powerful God then there is no reason to doubt that after creating the world he may want to tinker with it at his own sweet pace. The problem with too many is that they lack the patience and timelessness that a supreme being would have. They need to put everything in a human time frame. I doubt that things work that way. There are somrthings that we will just never know for sure.
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