It’s even more interesting that there seems to be a belief that mineralization can occur over the span of just a few years. I read a post here a couple of days ago in which the author reports the existence of a lake in which logs turned to stone almost immediately. Although the newly “stoned” logs are now nowhere to be found, the poster was convinced of the story’s veracity because there were eyewitnesses.
Mineralization doesn’t take millions or even thousands of years. The problem I pose is not the speed of mineralization but the selectivity.
Why are all fossils dates as old by radiometric dating, and believed to be old by evolutionary biologists, mineralized?
But bones of recent mammals are still bones. We even have mammoth DNA.
And yes, I’m quite aware of the so-called red meat found in dino bones. It’s red minerals. If it were real, creation scientists would be all over it, because plenty of dino bones are in private hands. If they had dino DNA, all you’d have to do is crack open a few on live TV and prove it to the world.
Alas, the collagen found in the dino bones is almost certainly bacterial.
The "Limestone Cowboy" exhibit of a cowboy boot manufactured in 1949 or 1950, filled with a fully fossilized foot and lower leg, has been viewed by close to 100,000 visitors, and examined by paleontologists and chemists. Do you attempt to hand wave that also?