Good article.
Good evidence.
Good logic.
I don’t think that we (Christians) have any business trying to guess the age of the Earth. Scripture simply doesn’t say, and why would it? But the other side has many problems. Science and Christianity are compatable. Sadly, many use one as a way to “disprove” the other.
There’s some things we don’t know. And there is a God. Deal with it.
I believe evolution thru natural selection is fact and changes species over time. But these species evolve as a subset of that original species. I see no evidence where one species begets another different. There are no crossover croca-horse fossils.
Just as a point of fact, red blood cells do not have a nucleus.
Just something to consider when/if a question of the scientific knowledge of the author(s) of this piece comes up.
That soft tissue has been found in fossilized bone is not in dispute, for the record. (Actually, to be precise, from what I’ve read, it’s not “tissue” rather some proteins typically found in bone marrow, but not the marrow itself.)
I just HAD to say something about that “red blood cells with nuclei” comment though.
Whoops I commented too quickly. “and these contained what appeared to be red blood cells with nuclei, typical of reptiles and birds (but not mammals)”.
“Appear to be” or variations used 5 times.
This appears to be nothing too substantial.
Meanwhile, Schweitzer’s research has been hijacked by “young earth” creationists, who insist that dinosaur soft tissue couldn’t possibly survive millions of years. They claim her discoveries support their belief, based on their interpretation of Genesis, that the earth is only a few thousand years old. Of course, it’s not unusual for a paleontologist to differ with creationists. But when creationists misrepresent Schweitzer’s data, she takes it personally: she describes herself as “a complete and total Christian.” On a shelf in her office is a plaque bearing an Old Testament verse: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Wow! What an article.
Now tell us how the chemical elements in the young Earth got there, and where they came from.
Because if one holds not that "the Earth is younger than science says" but rather "the Old Testament chronology of births and deaths is an accurate timeline of the Earth's age" then all it takes is a clear indication of 20,000 years or thereabouts.
Bm
If creationists are right, and dinosaurs died off only 3,000 to 4,000 years ago (that's 1,000 to 2,000 BC: historical times!), then in drier, colder regions we would expect to see large deposits of unfosilized dinosaur carcases, a few with recoverable DNA and other soft tissues -- similar to those mammoth remains we do find.
But instead, very rare finds of minute quantities of dinosaur soft tissue (no DNA) tell us that however it happened, it was a most unusual process, and therefore could have happened long before the current era.
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Creo equivalent of greenhouse gas
Men were painting on cave walls in France 30,000 years ago.