[whattajoke]

Curious... Are you (C-Y-C) able to accept that we can extract liquid oil from solid oil shale and tar sand through a chemical process called pyrolysis?

While this is admittedly a somewhat poor comparison, the idea is generally (VERY generally) the same. A solid rock/mineral is exposed to a chemical process that removes mineralization and produces a more workable substance of the same chemical make-up.

I hope this helps you understand a tad better. Again, this miniscule fossil that has the creationists so strangely excited was not the bronto-burger some would have us believe.

[count-your-change]

I think I understand, I once used muriatic acid to remove minerals from cast iron. When I removed the minerals I had no minersls left and what was left was of a much different chemical makeup.

But pyrolysis (to breakdown by heat) is a bit different, it's using heat to “cook” off various components of a light weight in tar sands and oil shales.

The Nat.Geo. reference I left and the links provided in the May 1, 2009, ScienceDaily demonstrate that paloentologists are just as or more exicited than the creationists over dino proteins and collogen, etc.