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?