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To: kellynch
Those bones that radio carbon dating tell us come from millions of years ago.

First off, the effective limit for radiocarbon dating is about 50,000 years, tops.

Second, last summer, scientists had to break a tyranosaur bone in half to get it out of a remote area by helicopter, and here is what they found inside the bone, i.e. this is what tyranosaur meat looks like:

The MSNBC version of the story.

If you really think that stuff is 65 million years old, I've got a bridge you'll probably be interested in purchasing.

206 posted on 06/09/2006 2:28:39 PM PDT by tomzz
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To: tomzz
Young-earth creationists also see Schweitzer’s work as revolutionary, but in an entirely different way. They first seized upon Schweitzer’s work after she wrote an article for the popular science magazine Earth in 1997 about possible red blood cells in her dinosaur specimens. Creation magazine claimed that Schweitzer’s research was “powerful testimony against the whole idea of dinosaurs living millions of years ago. It speaks volumes for the Bible’s account of a recent creation.” This drives Schweitzer crazy. Geologists have established that the Hell Creek Formation, where B. rex was found, is 68 million years old, and so are the bones buried in it. She’s horrified that some Christians accuse her of hiding the true meaning of her data. “They treat you really bad,” she says. “They twist your words and they manipulate your data.” For her, science and religion represent two different ways of looking at the world; invoking the hand of God to explain natural phenomena breaks the rules of science. After all, she says, what God asks is faith, not evidence. “If you have all this evidence and proof positive that God exists, you don’t need faith. I think he kind of designed it so that we’d never be able to prove his existence. And I think that’s really cool.”

Link.

I think she means you.

209 posted on 06/09/2006 2:32:48 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (...I'm dancin' right there with you, Iraqis.)
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To: tomzz


You keep posting this on thread after thread -- even after we have showed that the claim is bogus, and that the creationists are mischaractizing it by taking the popular press accounts over the actual reports of the scientists.

Once again -- I have to show everyone the basic dishonesty of the creationist approach. Here's the article I have linked to several times, now. It tells the whole sordid story. Despicable is the word that describes the behavior of AIG in this mess:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dinosaur/blood.html


232 posted on 06/09/2006 3:48:32 PM PDT by Almagest
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To: tomzz

And I'm sure you'll read the letter I wrote to AIG about their misleading coverage of this. It's at the end of my profile page.

Are you aware that those fragments are 1/8 inch across? Are you aware that before demineralization, they looked just like any other fossil?


248 posted on 06/09/2006 4:24:10 PM PDT by ahayes (Yes, I have a devious plot. No, you may not know what it is.)
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