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To: Big_Monkey

“It’s a numbers game - simple mathematics. Trilobites were on the planet for hundreds of millions of years, and probably in much, much greater numbers than man is even today. Human beings have only been in North American for about 12K years, hardly enough time to build any fossile base, but certainly not enough time to build a fossil base as long and as deep as one for you trilobites.

As for the rest of the world, this principle still holds true. Homo sapiens have only been on earth for 50k-60k years. It stands to mathematical reason that other species would outnumber human fossil on a exponential level. Thus, you find a lot more of others than of humans or their evolutionary precursors.”

This is only true if the number of years you site are accurate and after all isn’t this what the debate is all about. The recent discovery of blood vessels and proteins in an hadrosaur fossil by Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University seems to call into question evolutionists that claim the species to be 80 million years old.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2725/blood-and-gristle-found-cretaceous-era-duck-billed-dinosaur


104 posted on 05/20/2009 3:18:12 PM PDT by gscc
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To: gscc
"This is only true if the number of years you site are accurate and after all isn’t this what the debate is all about. The recent discovery of blood vessels and proteins in an hadrosaur fossil by Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University seems to call into question evolutionists that claim the species to be 80 million years old.

I read your linked article, twice. I can't find anything in the article that points to the fossil record being improperly dated.

If anything, it greatly bolsters the evolutionary belief that there is genetic linkage between uniquely distinct species that inhabited the earth at different times. In this case, the DNA material found in the duck-billed dinosaur shares genetic markers with our modern day poultry or amphibians, specifically chickens and frogs.

105 posted on 05/20/2009 4:23:04 PM PDT by Big_Monkey (Flubama - bringing disease everywhere he goes.)
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