SUMMARY: Paleontologists in England have uncovered a preserved fossilized squid, and they used ink from its one-inch long black ink sac to draw its picture. The fossil, thought to be "150 million years" old, was found when a rock in Wiltshire county was cracked open.Dr. Phil Wilby of the British Geological Survey said the creature resembles a modern-day squid and its ink is similar. It was discovered at a site where thousands of Jurassic fossils with preserved soft tissues have been found. He believes the creatures were swimming around during the Jurassic period and were turned to stone soon after death.
Remains of a different species of squid have also been found. "They can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibers and cells," Wilby said. "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilized in three dimension, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old."
(Squid picture from Wikimedia Commons)
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COMMENT: I was surprised enough to hear about another ancient fossilized creature found to still have soft tissue, but I almost fell off my chair when I read about the "thousands of Jurassic fossils with preserved soft tissues" that also have been discovered at this site in England. Why haven't we in America been hearing more about all these Jurassic fossils with soft tissues?
The LSI Blog has discussed the discovery in this country of soft blood vessels, red blood cells, etc. in two species of dinosaurs and the recent independent research which has verified that the tissues are real and not an illusion. Dinosaurs, of course, are believed by evolutionists to have gone extinct 65 million years ago. This discovery is even more remarkable in that this squid and the other fossils are dated as being from the Jurassic period which is said to have existed from 199 million to 145 million years ago (National Geographic). Dr. Wilby appears as much in awe of the soft squid ink sac as Dr. Mary Schweitzer was of her dinosaur discoveries. Soft tissues shouldn’t be appearing in fossils anywhere near this old.
Obviously, there is something drastically wrong with the radioisotope dating techniques used by evolutionists. These techniques are based on the decay of certain minerals into other minerals such as the decay of uranium into lead and rely on unproven assumptions such as knowing how much of the original mineral was in a rock, assuming the rate of decay was constant, and believing that the process happened in a closed system.
Why is this important at all for Christians? The many scholars who have studied the Old Testament genealogies generally agree that according to the Bible the creation occurred somewhere around 4,000 B.C. (The Kings James Version says 4004 B.C.) which would make the present world slightly more than 6,000 years old. How many Christians have had their faith tested and perhaps destroyed when they could not fit biblical data into what scientists have claimed is scientific fact? However, there is no conflict between these discoveries of soft tissues and the biblical time line.
In 2 Timothy 4:18 (NIV) we read “The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom.” Perhaps He is using these recent discoveries to help rescue us just as He said He would, provided we haven’t closed our hearts and minds to His love and His providence and His Holy Word.
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