Soft Tissue Surviving 65 Million Years?

Yes, it is collagen. Like Percy, I would like to know the source of this information. But more specifically, what proteins are we talking about here? I'm no bio-chemist, but even I know that collagen forms the structural strength in living organisms, and is unsurprisingly robust compared to most other proteins. I would pause for thought before throwing around accusations of special pleading...Edited by cavediver, : No reason given.

Really? How fast would the decay rates need to be changed to support a YEC view? What sort of Terrestrial heat output would that imply? How do they explain the data from Oklo? How would they explain just about all observed stellar astrophysics? Did you read that paper by Barrow, etc, or varying alpha? Did you notice the observed bounds on the variation of alpha across the age of the Universe? Edited by cavediver, : No reason given.

Really? Care to elucydate us, as us physicists are in the dark here Please note that evidence that alpha may have been different in the past by some femtoscopic fraction of a percent does not imply that considering the speed of light as constant is fallacious.ABE: what a tool...Edited by cavediver, : No reason given.

Because our clocks are based on the earth's rotation wrt the Sun (in order to preserve conventions of day and night) and this is not only not exactly equal to 24 hrs (as defined by the stable atomic clocks) but is also not constant. On the short timescale it varies back and forth owing to orbital dynamics, and over the long timescale, the rotational day is getting longer because the Earth's spin is slowing down as angular momentum is being transferred from the spin to the Earth-Lunar system via tidal dragging. Really? Oh, well perhaps you better ignore what I wrote above because it seems you know more about this than I do... Quite probably.