This 23-minute video is chock-full of numbing technical language–it’s here if you want it–but let me boil it down for you.
At stake here is a claim that actual dinosaur blood cells have been found. Scientists are divided between “Oh, that has to be wrong!” and “Um, er, excuse me, the phone is ringing!”
The problem is, we have some reputable scientists making this claim; and although just laughing them off or even punishing them has worked well in the past, it doesn’t work anymore.
Dreadnoughtus , named after a historic battleship, was a super-big dinosaur that lived in Argentina. What if we really had intact blood cells? Could we use it to grow a Dreadnoughtus, a la Jurassic Park? A lot of scientists are retreating to the sidelines until such time, they say, as technology catches up to our needs.
Can blood–or collagen, or other soft tissue–really survive for millions and millions of years, in the bones of long-vanished animals? Or is there something deeply wrong with that question? If it can’t, and yet there it is, maybe there’s something wrong with the imagined time scale.
God does like to challenge our minds, doesn’t He?
I’m more than willing to believe that the claimed scientific timescale is deeply flawed.
I agree. I’m skeptical anytime dates are mentioned. There are problems with every dating method we have. Science says modern humans are 200,000 years old. Yet, our recorded history only goes back a little over 4,000 years or so, the bulk of it being in the last 2,000 years. That never made sense to me.
Many of the dating methods are self referential. A fossil is dated by the layer in which it is found, and the layers are dated by what is found in them. The great flood of Noah’s day left behind an altered landscape and is thought to have been the source of the geologic mega sequences, so assumptions about layers are a bit dodgy, at best.
As a child, I was taught that fossils were mineralized bones, but more recent discoveries go against this. The discovery of soft tissue changes everything, and there is no demonstrable way that tissues could last for many million years.
If you throw out consideration of the dates, the Bible mentions two times that civilization got wiped out (the Flood, and the Tower of Babel). How long did it take to rebuild, each time?