Mazzy writes:
I am not young earth so that is an erraneous assumption. I am only young earth when it comes to mankind, so when dinos lived is of no consequence to my beliefs. However, 'soft tissue' over 60myo produces some skepticism for me, regardless of the fact that it does not matter to me.
Hi Mazzy, nice to see you in a different thread.
I hope that it's clearer now that what Mary Schweitzer recovered was not the sort of soft tissue remains that would cast doubt on the fact that dinosaurs have been extinct for some 66 million years, and not a few thousand or even a few hundred as some creationists have claimed.
The thing is, dinosaurs do matter. If you accept that the established dating of the fossilized remains of dinosaurs is in fact valid, then you have no grounds for doubting that the dating of human remains is valid as well. You can't claim that a tape measure is accurate when it says that the couch is 7 feet wide, but that the same tape measure is wrong when it says that the living room is 15 feet long. You don't get to pick and choose. And that's a serious problem for you. Accurate dating of various human and pre-human remains show a clear transition from more primitive "ape-like" forms to modern humans. No overlap. No
H. ergaster hanging around with
Australopithicus or with
H. sapiens either.
Now, I will quickly point out that this thread is
not about human evolution
at all, so we shouldn't derail the topic by continuing this particular conversation. The point was just that those creationists who claimed the this discovery cast doubt on the fossil record were wrong.
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