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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The problem with not reading the bible a lot is that you don't get to know God. Reading it shows you that He has no need what so ever to "tinker" with His creation. He already knows every electron's orbit and every cause and effect. He has a whole different purpose than to experiment. Also, it simply can not be denied that it takes more for God to create the uninverse quickly than slowly. It is simply more glorifying for Himself to do it in 7 days than over a period of billions of years. Then there is the whole big issue with His Word, it's inspiration, and His not lying. That pretty much demands a 6000 year old universe. Knowing that one then starts to "have a problem" with people who reject that.
*sigh* That's just silly.
But let the record stand, the guy who thinks believing Genesis when it says people once had much longer life spans, albeit probably in very, very different circumstances from how we live today, means you don't have "a lick of sense," yet he also thinks it's significant that Jesus has "very little" record (I'm assuming from contemporaries) compared to a Roman Emperor.
That's right. Remember the Gospels were written down from an oral religious tradition well after the fact. There are two brief and ambiguous mentions of Jesus outside the Christian tradition. In contrast, the reign of Tiberius was well described by Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus and Velleius Paterculus, and mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Philo, Seneca and others. We also have contemporary statues and buildings.
I don't dispute that Jesus was probably a historical figure. I dispute many of the details, including all of the supernatural ones.
There are a lot of critters living in desert areas. Most desert areas have water holes and the occasional oasis.
Listen. You believe what you like. Stop concerning yourself with what others believe. There are millions of fanatic Muslims who are just as sure they are right as you are. At one time it was heresy to believe that the Earth was not the center of everything. You need to have more faith in God and less in a book written by fallible men sometimes way after the fact and passed down by word of mouth for generations. We all know how accurate records like that are. Start a rumor and see if you recognize it after twenty people have retold it.
I would guess that the meaning of the article was miquoted. More likely the soft tissues also fossilized but the surrounding mineral deposits remained loose and it was possible to remove the now fossilized soft tissue without destroying them.
You ought to look deeper into that. There are now (and have been for quite a while, to my understanding) very strong arguments out there for at least three of the Gospels having been written before 70AD, well within the lifetimes of Jesus' contemporaries, and before the temple was destroyed. That, of course, means that mentions of that event in these gospels - if they were completed basically as we have them now, which has also seen strong arguments in its favor - were prophetic.
I hope you don't shy away from looking into this. Here is a link, from the same site I linked earlier, to an essay you might find interesting.
The Holy Spirit never neglects details for the inquiring mind! Notice the specificity of the language.
Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
This dispels the "Adamic Man" idea in one fell verse. It is hard to be that specific with a Myth.
Come over to what the world regards as the Dark Side. You will never again have to explain away a passage in the Bible. Oh sure, the will call you a literal buffoon, but it doesn't hurt to bad. We still take the passages in context, which means it is not always meant to be literal.
The serious scholarship I've seen does not agree. I read quickly through the link you posted; it doesn't really confront, for example, the fact that the author of Mark does not appear to be familiar with the basic geography of the Holy Land, and is therefore not likely to be an eyewitness or have lived there.
With any kind of luck we will have Armageddon long before that happens. :^]
Now, concerning the Torah, I checked and it didn't have your comments in it.
Intriguingly, although dinosaur bones are pretty rare as fossils go, they have already found THREE MORE SAMPLES of soft tissue in dinosaur bones.
It looks to be a rather common, ordinary process!
Utter crap. Study a few conmen. Specificity always adds credibility.
Why even bother?
The website is large and full of counter-objections, so most anything remotely serious you can think of is likely already dealt with there. And if it isn't, I'm sure he'd like to hear from you.
He's arguing against 200 years of biblical scholarship. I doubt some chemist from Nebraska's going to make a difference.
And you still think Adam was the Dad?
For he's got no falloorum, di doorum, di doorum dah
Got no faloorum, di doorum, di day
Got no faloorum, and he's lost his di doorum dah
Maid, when you're young, never wed an old man.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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