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To: Ira_Louvin

“It has been pointed out to you many times that the soft tissue was fossilized, and was not intact.”
Your source please. Here is mine which contradicts your statement.

“Not only is the tissue largely INTACT, it’s still transparent and PLIABLE, and microscopic interior structures resembling blood vessels and even cells are still present.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325100541.htm


106 posted on 11/09/2009 6:29:23 PM PST by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
“Not only is the tissue largely INTACT, it’s still transparent and PLIABLE, and microscopic interior structures resembling blood vessels and even cells are still present.”

They are describing Helen Thomas...

110 posted on 11/09/2009 6:34:18 PM PST by Senator_Blutarski (No good deed goes unpunished.)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
Here ya go,

In a discovery that invokes comparisons to Jurassic Park, North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer and her colleagues have extracted soft tissue from the fossilized leg bone of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex specimen

The tissue was once elastic and stretchy, and had the capacity to be dehydrated and rehydrated many times without losing this characteristic. “Although the preservation of soft tissue such as this is not unique in the geologic record, this occurrence goes well beyond what has been observed in the past for dinosaurs, and reinforces the evolutionary link of dinosaurs to birds,” said Barrera. http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103152Link (new window)

Removal of the mineral phase reveals transparent, flexible, hollow blood vessels containing small round microstructures that can be expressed from the vessels into solution. Some regions of the demineralized bone matrix are highly fibrous, and the matrix possesses elasticity and resilience. Three populations of microstructures have cell-like morphology. Thus, some dinosaurian soft tissues may retain some of their original flexibility, elasticity, and resilience. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/307/5717/1952Link (new window)

114 posted on 11/09/2009 6:53:11 PM PST by Ira_Louvin (Go tell them people lost in sin, Theres a higher power ,They need not fear the works of men.)
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