Posted on 06/09/2015 12:22:24 PM PDT by ETL
Dinosaur fossils, it was long thought, are simple objects. The fossilization process leaves the overall shape of a dinosaur's bones intact, but all the microscopic structures inside them — the blood cells, connective fibers, and other sorts of soft tissue — inevitably decay over time.
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The photo above, from a new study published today in Nature Communications and led by Sergio Bertazzo of Imperial College London, shows an extremely zoomed-in view of a 75-million-year-old theropod claw, taken from the London Natural History Museum's collection. When researchers scraped tiny pieces off the fossil and looked at them under an electron microscope, they found tiny structures that look a lot like collagen fibers present in our own ligaments, tendons, and bones.
In other dinosaur fossils, the researchers found features that resemble red blood cells. Tests showed that they have a similar chemical composition to the blood of an emu (a bird thought to be a relatively close relative to dinosaurs).
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The idea that dinosaur fossils might harbor soft tissue first surfaced about a decade ago, when paleontologist Mary Schweitzer found evidence of blood cells preserved inside T. rex fossils.
But what's so exciting about this new study is that the fossils used, unlike Schweitzer's, aren't particularly well-preserved. Susannah Maidment, one of the paleontologists who worked on the paper, called them "crap" specimens. If they have preserved soft tissue inside them, it could be a sign that thousands of other fossils in museum collections do too.
:’) He pioneered the “hot-blooded” dino model.
No, she said it that way because she’s a scientist, not a YEC.
Well, looks like I’ve got two options - read and try to understand a scientific paper presented for peer review or listen to a guy on the internet who looks at a photo and uses his intuition to date the subject in the image.
That about sums up the crevo debate really.
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The peer of a plain liar is another liar.
Enjoy your club of fools. Manipulation of data is not science, although it does use technology.
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It would be a mistake to clone them, might be very close to DemocRAT DNA
More of that famous intuition, right?
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It’s called “Common Sense.”
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Didn’t that go out with Aristotle?
Not guilty!
“It seems to me that the most logical explanation (and simplest....Occam’s Razor) is that it is not that old..... “
and we thus should be seeing the soft tissue in many fossilized bones.
But we are not so your OR analysis fails.
Or that. :))
Others have found soft tissue, etc. in dinosaur remains of various types.
Those shepherds and fishermen9 you mentioned; a number of them were directly recruited by the Lord Jesus Himself, tutored by Him for 3 years, witnessed His crucifixion, resurrection and ascension back into Heaven, and a bit later were filled with the Holy Spirit.
Yes, when Christ first began with them, in some ways they were dumber than the proverbial Hogan’s goat. But after the Holy Spirit arrived they were transformed into miracle working teachers and evangelists. And they all, except the Apostle John paid with their lives rather than deny the Lord.
Friend, I highly recommend that you read up on General Lew Wallace; a Civil War era general, one time Governor of California, etc. who had a doubting attitude possibly similar to yours, who set out to prove that the whole Gospel story was a myth, that Jesus was a fraud, etc. After years of study and research, he was confronted with such a mountain of proofs and evidence for the reality of Christ and His gospel, and the absolute imperative for one to repent and believe the Gospel, that he got on his knees and invited Christ into his life; and was wonderfully transformed and received eternal life. He subsequently wrote the book “BEN HUR” Sub-titled “A story of the Christ.”
You’re obviously a good, sincere person, and I’ll make a snap judgment that you’re too good a guy to let the devil have you. So I hope you’ll give the claims of Christ an honest evaluation, and hopefully you’ll arrive at the same conclusion Gen. Wallace did.
Blessings.
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If not, it went out with Obingo.
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>> “Birds, ARE dinosaurs, or at least the only surviving species of the dinosaur line.”
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Oh?
What about Alligators, Crocodiles, Iguanas, etc?
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“Aristotle, a Greek Philosopher, student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great, was born in 384BC and lived to be some 60 years old at his time of death. During his time on earth, many of his writings covered such topics of physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
Aristotle is by far known as one of the most important figures in western philosophy.
His works is one of the earliest known forms of the study of logic.
Since he had a conception of speed and temperature but, relatively no quantitative understanding of mass, velocity, force and temperature, his basis is largely remains qualitative.
With the lack of complete understanding of the four items listed above, I believe that his beliefs were more so that of commonsense.
Commonsense by virtue is “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts”.
Aristotle believed that common sense is an actual power of inner sensation. External senses such as color for sight, hearing for sound etc., are united and joined in ways that allow one to sense the substance in which various attributed inhere.
An example of Aristotle’s senses and beliefs, are that the earth is stationary that lies in the center of the universe and that the stars are a “fixed’ object that move in an orbit around the earth.
Aristotle had 8 premises of why the earth does not move.
1) Local motion, the way natural objects move, is motion that is either circular, in a straight line, or a combination of the two.
2) The Earth is a natural object.
3) If the Earth moves, it moves in one of the ways described in premise one.
4) The fixed stars are special objects.
5) The fixed stars are observed to move across the sky but are also observed to have unchanging positions relative to one another.
6) In our ordinary experience, when we as persons...”
etc, etc...”
http://www.essaydepot.com/doc/49984/Explain-Why-Aristotle-Is-Known-As
“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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“Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.
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“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
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“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Yup! That's a crock fer shurr.
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“With all the discussion of “dragons” embedded in every culture, obviously they were alive 600-800 years ago in Europe and Asia where those writings originated.”
That’s not serious, is it?
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