Posted on 03/24/2005 12:04:54 PM PST by wallcrawlr
WASHINGTON — For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.
"We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising,'' she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.
The soft tissues were recovered from the thighbone of a T. rex, known as MOR 1125, that was found in a sandstone formation in Montana. The dinosaur was about 18 years old when it died.
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If you'd like some fun, get a 10ft Breambuster with 2lb test line and a couple of #2 splitshot on the end of the line - no hook. Dangle it in front of a frog or toad when they're feeding at night and let it snap it up and swallow it. PETA would have a fit! but you could really have fun...
70 million years? Tell us another Darwinist fairy tale.
The young earth crowd, as you call it, IS right. Don't believe the athiest-liberal-darwinist garbage.
That's no puppy, that's a Rexling!
How do you mean? New where? FR?
Thankfully the Lord doesnt let you into heaven based on whether you think the earth is 70 billion or 6 thousand years old. Please simply understand youre sinful nature and need for grace.
Evo vs Crea is an excellent debate but please watch the personal attacks.
Pro-Creation here.
...and I thought alligators in the sewers were bad.
I think my Animal Control guys will definitely want combat pay to take down one of these things.
If you read and read the bible, you will discover that to God, creating the universe was simple. Hence it's creation getting so little ink vs say Joseph's life, for example. There is a very specific reason for the difference between the two too.
Genesis does not specifically say that Adam was created as a full-grown man. You are assuming that He did.
It does say it, but if you want those exact words then you can sit back and think that you are right. But you are wrong.
A word of advice. Just because something might be too difficult for you to understand doesn't mean it is not true.
I know 70 million is a big number to you, but lots of other people can count that high.
Well, yes. I took the liberty of checking your profile and see that ACDSWIZ is fairly new. I also see that you don't have too terribly many posts to your name. If I checked right that is.
So perhaps you don't realize how many zillions of posts and man hours goes into FR Creation vs Evolution threads. It's usually the same old people around here and we all know each other pretty well. So those of us that believe in Biblical Creation believe that the bible specifically says that the whole universe is 6000 years old.
When I first got saved this was pretty new to me having been taught in a secular public school. But I soon discovered a whole community, of fundamental Christians, who reject all the "science" I had been taught and believe in biblical creation. We have some pretty interesting evidences on our side too.
Forgive me but even as I type there is a bit of skepticism in my heart as to whether you really don't realize all of these things and are just playing around. We see a lot of that here on the FR.
"...70 million years old, yet still flexible..."
I don't have a problem with the still flexible and flesh like; I think the poopycock is in the '70 million years old'.
Maybe if we can resussitate this thing, it can tell us how old it really is.
Well, no. Even you don't believe the Bible specifically says that. SInce much of it was written down a bit under 2000 years ago, if it said the earth was 6000 years old then, it would now be 8000 years old, wouldn't it?
What you mean is that you can add up a bunch of ages in the Bible, moving back from historical time, and end up with a date of creation of about 6000 years b.p..
Of course, it doesn't matter, because no one with a lick of sense would believe Methuselah lived 900 years anyway.
PING TO THE BOY
This is false. The rates of decay of radionuclides are measured, not assumed. Carbon-14 has been measured to have a half-life of 5700 years and change. We can measure carbon-14 contents of organic material that are 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and so on of present values. These are therefore (approximately) 5,700, 11,400, and 17,100 year old. You'll notice the last two already make the biblical chronology impossible. We can cross-check carbon-14 dates against the growth rings of trees, either living trees or wood of known historical age. We can also overlap growth ring patterns of living and older wood samples, and establish a growth ring chronology that is older than 6000 years. While carbon-14 is pretty useless for materials of older geological ages, it's plenty good enough to disprove the age of the Earth claimed by biblical literalists. But then, anyone who says he believes the Earth is 6000 years old is either pig-ignorant, a credulous fool, or lying.
OK, you win. How bizarre that we would point out that you have no evidence. What were we thinking? Evolution is true because you say so. It must be true, because we exist don't we, nevermind the gaps.
Fossilzation is indeed an unusual event. It's usually due to a water or volcanic activity event which buries an organism before the natural scavengers have a chance to break it down and destroy it.
Some of the dinosaur graveyards are indicative of water events of truly phenomenal porportions. (Now where have I heard of a truly phenomenal water event before?)
At least that is what was on it's drivers license!
"Can I pet him"?
"Sure; he's a vegetarian."
Do you know what's harder than getting a pregnant T-Rex in the sewer?
Getting a T-Rex pregnant in the sewer!
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