Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / June 2007

I wrote to the alt.bible newsgroups about a biblical study that says
that the ancestry records of the bible indicate that humanity is about
6,011 years old and that this is not in correspondence with the
scientific discovery of 195,000 year old homosapiens.  This is what I
got back from one Gabriel <gabriel_baptist@hotmail.com > who obviously
had a need to bend the truth a bit.  He even gave a reference link to
a christian science magazine.

I responded:

We agree that they must have been operating under some sort of theory
previously to this find.  How else would people be able to suggest
that the dinosaur was of a recent era.  This view that the dinosaur
was young may have come as a surprise to many because the previous
theory was that there is no way that fossilization could preserve
soft
tissues.
First off, what they are writing about happened in 2003.  The same
scientist (Schweitzer) has since then renounced the idea that the
dinosaur was young enough to be of a recent era.  It had to do with
the stone that they were preserved in.  They have been studying the
layers of the earth for sometime now and have found methods to
determine how old a rock layer is.  So what they did was took
dinosaur
fossils from other rock layers that they knew were 80 million years
old and ended up with the same results.  They found and have
published
(since that old outdated article) that this is not a revolution in
the
dating method of a fossil but in a method of retrieving preserved
parts of it.  In other words they found a new method to examine
fossils with, not a new time frame for the existence of dinosaurs.
Here is a more recent article from March 25th 2005 about the same
dig.  The SAME Scientist that was in the article you found
(Schweitzer) reveals that the fossils were of a much older era.
"Attempting to dissolve the minerals from a piece of fossilized bone,
so the theory goes, would merely dissolve the entire fossil."
Notice they use the word "theory".  That was the old understanding of
preservation in fossils.  Here is the new information.
"Schweitzer then duplicated her findings with at least three other
well-preserved dinosaur specimens, one 80-million-year-old hadrosaur
and two 65-million-year-old tyrannosaurs. All of these specimens
preserved vessels, cell-like structures, or flexible matrix that
resembled bone collagen from modern specimens."
The refrence link is here ---->  http://www.physorg.com/news3506.html
Like I said, the rock layers that they found the other fossils in
were
definitely of an 80 million year old era.  They know because of the
rock layers themselves.