[lasereye]

How do you know we never find elephant bones mineralized to the same extent?

[allmendream]

Because the guy who found an elephant fossil that appeared through radiometric analysis and mineralization to be fifty million years would be famous, and nobody has yet made such a claim, so I can only conclude that such a find has never been made.

Now that is not to say that one will not, some time in the future, turn up. But it is increasingly unlikely.

So how do you explain why we find NO dinosaur bones that are actually bone and not mineralized, but we find elephant bone that is actually bone, and no elephant fossils that are mineralized to rock to the same extent as every dinosaur fossil?

If dinosaurs and elephants were contemporaneous, you would expect to find remains in a similar state of fossilization, but that has never been observed.

Why not?