What is it with the Young-Earth-Creationists and this fossil leg bone of a t-rex and hadrosaur with soft tissue? Is this supposed to be evidence for a young earth, because I'm not buying it.
Answers in Genesis states:
"Regardless of how the evolutionist community finally decides what to do with this fossil conundrum, the creationists now possess immensely powerful evidence against the well-publicized belief that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago and instead have tremendous support for the biblical timeline of a recent creation."
Creation Ministries International says:
"The most straightforward fit to the evidence is that the time of burial of these dinosaurs was not millions of years ago at all, but only thousands of years ago at most. As the evidence continues to mount that dinosaur fossils do indeed contain well-preserved soft tissue structures and identifiable proteins, the assumption that will increasingly be made is that “we now know that such tissue components can last that long, after all.” "
So what are your thoughts? Does this stupendous find finally disprove long ages, or is it the young earth creationists who are mistaken again?
They state:
"The T. rex was deposited in sandstone of “estuarine” origin, meaning that the animal was buried in rock layers laid down by water (no surprise here for the creationists”see “Genesis and catastrophe”)."
As if it adds any credence to their claims... Isn't sedimentation how you preserve most fossils? This doesn't mean it was the Flood that killed them, for goodness' sake -_-
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