Posted on 10/28/2013 8:45:36 AM PDT by fishtank
ICR article image.
This image provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows a fossilized female mosquito in a paper-thin piece of shale. The 46 million year-old insect drew blood in its last meal, was blown into a lake in what is now northwestern Montana and sank, belly still full. It's a first for biology, a blood meal found intact in a fossil. (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution, Dale Greenwalt)
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-10-ancient-bug-supper-blood-fossil.html#jCp
Wait a minute...we got T-Rexes AND Raptors...?
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Science and The Bible are ultimately relatable to each other.
This Institute is more of an institution.
Oh Nooooos you mean we didn’t evolve from amoebas 100 million years ago?
That’s right, we evolved from simple cells (prokaryotes) some 3.6 billion years ago, give or take a couple hundred million years.
No, more like 4,200 to 4,600 million years ago or longer.
The creationist article is nonsense, because it takes and misrepresents the science with false statements. The blood inside the insect is decomposed into lesser organic molecules, and those molecules can persist under the right conditions, particularly anoxic conditions.
LMAO!!! :-)
I'm pretty sure the iron (which is what they say they've detected) does, and will still be iron long after anything that could arguably be called "blood" is long gone.
drew blood in its last meal, was blown into a lake in what is now northwestern Montana and sank, belly still full. It’s a first ......”
and did not decay??
Quick evolutionist make up an excuse!!!!!!
(sarc)
Secular science will continue to struggle with force-fitting findings into evolutionary schemes, but a recent Flood easily accommodates blood elements in fossils like this once hungry mosquito..”
Like rapid burial several thousand years ago?
trapped in stone, not amber, and (unfortunately for Jurassic Park enthusiasts) it’s not old enough to be filled with dinosaur blood. But it is the first time we’ve found a fossilized mosquito with blood in its belly.
They are calling it blood
We have found many many examples of fine specimens of insects and leaves which have fallen into lakes and been burred in sediments so quickly that they do not decay. There is an excellent locality near my home in Florisant, Colorado where a lake was filled with volcanic ash approximately 40 million years ago. There are fossils of giant redwood and Sequoia trees that no longer live there as well as insects which are extinct, all quite well preserved because they were buried in ash sediments in low oxygen circumstances.
yes, and the same thing happen at Mt St Helens (maybe on a smaller scale)
I wish I lived so close to a rich fossil producing sight.
It must be fun to go hunting in that area.
The article described how the insect underwent partial decay, so it is a falsification to misrepresent anyone said there was no decay at all. The insect was preserved at the bottom of a lake in shale. This suggests the water was anoxic, without the Oxygen required to oxidise the organic hydrocarbon compounds and fully decompose the organism or provide the environment for other organisms to consume the dead insect. Under such conditions, organic matter can persist without full decomposition for untold millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of years.
It remains to be seen how much longer than hundreds of millions of years such organic material can remain intact in part when preserved in the cold vacumn of space, especially if shielded by rock against radiation exposure.
They're calling it "fossilized blood". ICR is calling it "still-fresh hemoglobin". Looks like a little "bait and switch" sensationalism to entertain the choir.
Wishful thinking on our part. Try doing it the hard way by actually collecting the physical evidence, instead of making up false evidence and false conclusions.
There are several areas near us like that. One is an exposure of shallow lake sediments laid bare by a collapsed volcanic caldera. Another is another lake buried by volcanic ash up near Vernal, Utah.
I don’t know, but somebody stop that dinosaur DNA research from fossilized mosquito blood before they kill us all - especially the Raptors...or at east keep those electric fences working...
It takes more faith to believe in species jumping (no evidence) than it does in creation (evidence of intelligent design is everywhere).
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