Another Dinosaur Found With Soft Tissue

Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer finds protein collagen in a hadrosaur bone.

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MEMORIAL DAY - 2009


Remembering Our Heroes.

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SUMMARY: The scientific world was astounded some years ago when paleontologist and evolutionist Dr. Mary Schweitzer said she had found red blood cells in a piece of a T. rex bone. But that wasn't all. In 2005 she made another sensational discovery in a different T. rex bone. This one contained what looked like actual tissue, still soft and stretchy, with the appearance of transparent branching blood vessels.

Further tests established the presence of protein collagen in the bone. Schweitzer's team even sequenced stretches of it showing it was 58% similar to chicken collagen and 51% similar to collagen in a frog. Even if hermetically sealed, complex molecules like proteins should fall apart by themselves in well under 65 million years, the time at which evolutionists believe dinosaurs went extinct.

In 2008 evolutionists tried to counter these amazing discoveries by claiming the transparent dinosaur blood vessels resulted from a recent bacterial formation of biofilms that took the shape of the original blood vessels. Schweitzer provided some substantial reasons why this claim could not be true.

According to Science magazine, Schweitzer has now announced another fascinating discovery. She has found evidence of "the same fibrous matrix, transparent, flexible vessels, and preserved microstructures she had seen in the T. rex sample" in a fossil from a different family of dinosaur-a hadrosaur or duckbilled dinosaur. (picture from Wikimedia Commons)

Anticipating criticism, her team worked extremely carefully. They protected against contamination, used newer equipment, and sent the samples to two other labs for confirmation. They found not only collagen but evidence of two additional proteins-elastin and laminin. Hints of hemoglobin were also present. Although some scientists are still skeptical, one former critic, Dr Pavel Pevzne of the U. of California, admits her new study was conducted correctly.

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COMMENT: When I notice the resistance of many mainstream scientists to the idea that a dinosaur bone could still have red blood cells and soft tissue, I think of the Egyptian pharaoh at the time of the Exodus. When he hardened his heart even after the miraculous and devastating plagues, he was going beyond being bullheaded. So are today's evolutionist scientists who stubbornly cling to the theory that dinosaurs died out some 65 million years ago even after evidence like this has been presented by one of their own scientists.

I thought modern scientists took pride in being open-minded, willing to change their theories in the face of new evidence. It is obvious that their firm belief in the doctrines and time lines of Darwinism is keeping them from the obvious conclusion that soft tissue in a bone means it can't be millions of years old. This new evidence along with discoveries of cave drawings of dinosaur-like creatures, ancient artifacts depicting dinosaur-like animals, and legends of "dragons" that come from all over the world should be enough to convince most open-minded people that dinosaurs have lived in relatively recent times alongside of humans.

May God open the hearts of these scientists (as He has already done with many former evolutionist scientists) to start questioning their evolutionary beliefs and start looking at the only infallible source of information on how we and the world have gotten here-God's Word, the Holy Bible. They will find an account there that coincides much better, perfectly in fact, with what they can see with their own eyes. And they will also find something much more important than historical and scientific accuracy there. They will find the good news that salvation and eternal life in heaven can be theirs by confessing their sins and accepting the forgiveness won for them by Jesus Christ.

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QUESTION OF THE DAY

Why are golf cart injuries soaring?

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Source: BottomLine Personal (May 15, 2009)