Simple. Like I say, both the pictures and the news wire stories are totally unambiguous.
Hooey. I've never heard of this guys letter but AIG answers it with the same recycled . . . how can I put this, statements that do not align with reality?
There is no evidence that any unfossilized material remains. Previous fossils have been found that were soft and flexible but contained none of the original organic material--which you ought to know had you read my letter to AIG. AIG's major mistake (which none of the scientists made, see my letter) is assuming that flexibility means the fragments are unfossilized. Your major mistake is in believing them and then taking the next step and thinking they look like "fresh meat," (which at least AIG had the decency to only suggest at, not state) although since we've explained that these bits are about 1/8 I hope you will back off on that in future. *crosses fingers*
Both you and AIG are jumping the gun, assuming facts not in evidence, and then using these fallacious assumptions to insult and smear others' reputation. I used to have some respect for the character of those at AIG, no longer.
CW: Huh? How can demineralization produce soft tissue that was not already there?
The letter in question cites examples.
"Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, cautions that looks can deceive: Nucleated protozoan cells have been found in 225-million-year-old amber, but geochemical tests revealed that the nuclei had been replaced with resin compounds. Even the resilience of the vessels may be deceptive. Flexible fossils of colonial marine organisms called graptolites have been recovered from 440-million-year-old rocks, but the original material--likely collagen--had not survived."Your answer (well, AiG's) is inadequate. There's really no excuse to continue trolling for suckers with discredited material like that long-ago-banned freeper used to do all the time.Some of the tougher biopolymers (especially chitin, lignins and proteins) may degrade very slowly in a fossil...etc.