A number of these soft tissue finds have been carbon-dated to 20,000 to 40,000 years old.
In fact, Mary Schweitzer, who was referenced in the article, carbon-dated some. But she claimed said she couldn’t recall how old they were.
Source?
In fact, she didn’t radiocarbon date dino fossils.
She has said her finds in no way support a recent age for the fossils of dinos.
> One thing that does bother me, though, is that young earth creationists take my research and use it for their own message, and I think they are misleading people about it. Pastors and evangelists, who are in a position of leadership, are doubly responsible for checking facts and getting things right, but they have misquoted me and misrepresented the data. They’re looking at this research in terms of a false dichotomy [science versus faith] and that doesn’t do anybody any favors... I do go to pretty conservative churches. One time I was visiting a church and the pastor got up and started preaching a sermon about people not being related to apes, and he started talking about this scientist in Montana who discovered red blood cells in dinosaur bones — he didn’t know I was in the audience — and it was my research he was talking about! Unfortunately, he got everything wrong. I just got up and left. I don’t feel that I’m discrediting God with the work I’m doing, I think I am honoring him with the abilities he’s given me. One of the churches I go to is very conservative — But the pastor and I have discussed what I do, and we have agreed to disagree on some things. I think that’s the appropriate attitude to have — after all, God is the only one who knows for sure — he is the only one who was there.
http://biologos.org/blog/not-so-dry-bones-an-interview-with-mary-schweitzer
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/dinosaur-dna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Higby_Schweitzer