Evolution or Creation?                     

Recent T.Rex discoveries confound evolutionists

In 1990 biologist Mary Schweitzer discovered soft tissue-including blood vessels and even whole cells when it was necessary to break a supposedly 65 million-year-old tyrannosaurus rex huge thigh bone that was found in Montana's Hell Creek Formation. Schweitzer said that the vessels were flexible and some could even be squeezed. After extensive testing, there was confirmation that this T. rex bone even had hemoglobin (red blood cells). This was surprising because the blood should have completely disintegrated if the bones were really 65 million years old.[71,76]

This discovery is unexplained by evolutionary thinking, which suggests that millions and millions of years have passed since this "King of Dinosaurs" met its demise. Schweitzer is puzzled and cannot understand why this bone was not mineralized. "It's very amazing. It's utterly shocking, actually, because it flies in the face of everything we understand about how tissues and cells degrade," she said on MSNBC.[76]

On the BBC's Science In Action programme* she said, "This is fossilized* bone in the sense that it's from an extinct animal but it doesn't have a lot of the characteristics of what people would call a fossil. It still has places where there are no secondary minerals, and it's not any more dense than modern bone; it's bone more than anything."[71]

In 1995, Joe Taylor, a professional dinosaur excavator and a biblical creationist, was curious about the hip girdle of another T. Rex that was found in 1916. It was found in the same Hell Creek Formation where Schweitzer's T. rex bone was found. Taylor was amazed that this 65 million-year-old specimen still had the appearance of skin on the sacral vertebrae. He sent a sample to Azusa Pacific College in California and had it scanned with an electron microscope by Professor Mark Annitage, who found that the bone had collagen filaments intact inside the bone.[76]

The presence of collagen suggests that this supposedly 65 million year old fossil was not completely fossilized. Annitage states, "It can't be but a few thousand years old."[76]

Since unfossilized dinosaur bones are being found more commonly, and frozen mammoths with flesh still on the bones are well-known, it has become impossible for evolutionists to deny the discoveries. So, they see without seeing. That is, they proclaim it to be a previously unknown form of fossilization, or simply accept the fact that organic material can survive for millions of years given the proper conditions.[71]

* British spelling.

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