Imagine watching an interview on television and hearing a blind, deaf, wrinkled, hunched-back,
bedridden man claim that he was 130 years old.
Although many would likely be skeptical of such a declaration of age, if ever there was
a man in modern times to live 130 years on Earth, he surely would have looked as worn
out as this man.
Imag-ine however if a quick-witted, strong, marathon runner with fair skin, thick dark
hair, low blood pressure, high bone mineral density, and good memory alleged to be 130
years old.
What reasonable individual would believe such a claim?
Virtually everyone would doubt the declaration, especially the doctors, who had found the
man’s overall health to be comparable to that of a 20-year-old, not a 130-year-old.
Now take a step into the world of evolutionary science.
According to evolution’s assumption-based geologic timetable, since dinosaurs supposedly
became extinct 65 million years ago, any dinosaur fossil found in the ground must be at least
65 million years old.
But what if the fossils don’t “appear” to be that old?
What if, when inspected by scientists, various dinosaur bones around the world were discovered
with “highly fibrous,” “flexible,” and “resilient” bone tissue that “when
stretched, returns to its origi-nal shape”?
What if proteins such as collagen were found, along with “haemoglobin, elastin and laminin,
as well as cell-like structures resembling blood and bone cells”?
Would evolutionists come to a similar conclusion as most everyone would about a marathon-running,
one hundred thirty year-old?
Apparently not.
In the last several years, scientists have reported unearthing a variety of dinosaur
bones from around the world that are not completely fossilized and which contain in-tact protein
fragments, including ones known as collagen and elastin.
Amazingly, once the minerals are stripped away from the soft tissue, the researchers
have been able to squeeze round, dark red, microscopic structures from what is thought
to be dinosaur blood vessels.
However, since, according to one evolutionary author, “proteins in tis-sue normally degrade
quickly after an animal dies,” research on soft dinosaur tissues remains “controversial”
and “contentious.”
Since evolutionists published their findings of soft dinosaur tissue in 2005 and 2007 about
(allegedly) “68-million-year-old” T. rex soft tissue, a much more thorough study has
been done on a supposed “80-million-year-old fossil from a duck-billed dino-saur.”
What did researchers find?
This time “an even larger number of protein frag-ments” were found.
After using “chemicals to dissolve away the minerals,” scientists have seen what
appears to be “a network of soft, transparent vessels, cells, and extra-cellular matrix.”
One Harvard Medical School biochemist independently confirmed the presence of “collagen, as
well as laminin and elastin, two proteins found in blood ves-sels.”
Any strong, marathon-running, dark-haired, fair-skinned, wrinkle-free, 20-year-old-looking
modern man who claims to be 130 years old would be discredited immediately.
Science and common sense would demand that the 130-year date be rejected.
But what about the dates evolutionists give us for these rather young looking dino-saur
bones—bones with what one evolutionist called “miraculously preserved soft tis-sue.”
Now that the once “controversial” and “contentious” dinosaur collagen has been
confirmed, are leading evolutionists reconsidering the age of dinosaur fossils?
Are they considering the possibility that dinosaurs may have lived hundreds or thousands
of years ago rather than 65-plus million years ago?
Apparently not—at least not in their writings.
Evolutionists are eerily silent about this blatant contradiction: how can dino-saur fossils
reportedly 80 million years old (or 29 billion 200 million days old) contain “collagen…hemoglobin,
elastin, and laminin, as well as cell-like structures resembling blood and bone cells”?
The problem is not with dinosaur bones: [repeated studies over the last several years have verified
the presence of soft tissue.]
The problem is with the assumption-based evolutionary dating methods—dinosaur bones are NOT 80
million years old!
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