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I saw a Discovery Channel show on this subject. Ms Schweitzer, when encountering the Hell's Creek fossil for the first time said something like, "This thing smells like a cadaver."

The response was, "All Hell's Creek fossils smell like that."

So, even when faced with olfactory evidence that these fossils aren't 68 million years old, the 'scientific' paradigm must be protected at all costs.

What exactly is the misrepresentation?

So, even when faced with olfactory evidence that these fossils aren't 68 million years old, the 'scientific' paradigm must be protected at all costs. What exactly is the misrepresentation?

The famed ex-atheist Anthony Flew did say that we should follow where the evidence takes you. Interestingly enough I saw this article in a secular science magazine “Discovery.” It seems that many evolutionists are willing to concede the fact that it is actual dinosaur tissue, now they’re just disputing fossilization, etc. What I find most telling about this discovery is the knee-jerk rejection of it by some people. This should be an exciting mystery. Are there certain invironmental conditions that will allow soft tissue to survive for millions of years? Is there something that looks this much like soft tissue, but isn’t? Is science totally in error about its perception of age? I have seen a heck of a lot of evidence for an old earth. The best evidence I have found involves hunting down details on suggestions made by the YEC community. I would be incredibly shocked to discover that dinosaurs really lived in the time of man. However, this evidence should excite the scientific community and prod them to ask more questions. I’d really want to see other plaeontologists get similar samples from an unearthed location at the same site taking extraordinary precautions to ensure that it wasn’t contaminated during or after removal then isolate at least some fragmentary DNA from the samples and have multiple labs replicate the results. From what I read there was nowhere near good enough handling of the samples to insure no contamination because no one expected any need for sterile handling. Hence, at this point in time, call me a The-Jury-is-Out-Earther.

There is a simple molecule, tetraethyldiamine, which is also known as putrescin. It gets this descriptive name because it smells like rotting flesh. It is produced by the degradation of proteins in a dead animal. Putrescin and other simple amines and sulfur-containing molecules could stay trapped in the rock until released with excavation. Just because something's been dead for millions of years doesn't mean it can't smell like anything.