Here is something from the world of dinosaur news...
I quote: "What we found was unusual, because it was still soft and still transparent and still flexible." So said Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist at North Carolina State University who heads the study to figure why there was still collagen present in a "68 million year old" T-rex bone.
She then goes on to explain how iron in the blood might explain "how proteins and possibly even DNA can survive millennia."
Okay. I can buy that few a few millennia, but you expect me to believe that iron leached from blood will make collagen survive for 68 thousand millennia? The article then goes on to explain that they are finding soft tissue in bones even tens-of-millions of years "older" that these.
How about this. Perhaps, just perhaps, the assumption on which the carbon dating system are based are actually flawed assumptions seated in a bad case of circular reasoning.
"The bones of these various specimens are articulated, not scattered, suggesting they were buried quickly. They're also buried in sandstone, which is porous and may wick away bacteria and reactive enzymes that would otherwise degrade the bone." They were buried quickly in sandstone? Like sandstone that would occur from a cataclysmic flood perhaps?
You must read the article to truly appreciate the irony.
Link to the article HERE.
