Belief Follows Truth

Drumheller, Alberta, Canada is considered the “dinosaur capital of the world” because of the number and variety of dinosaur fossils uncovered in this unique site. Well, this site is in the news again—and it’s not just due to the discovery of a near-complete skeleton of a hadrosaur (a “duck-billed dinosaur”), but because of the presence of fossilized soft tissue, including tendons and “dark, scaly skin” with a pebbly texture (like the surface of a basketball).
This incredible find shows the creature had to be buried very quickly, even before the skin could decay! The scientist who discovered the specimen says: I think [the specimen] was covered quite quickly, otherwise it wouldn't be this well preserved . . . You can see some of its vertebrae and tendons, and once you get closer, you can see some of its scales. The dark, scaly skin has a basketball-like texture. This is something really special; you don't find things like this very often out in the field.
Now, what could cover a 13-foot-long dinosaur that quickly (and that deep) for it to be preserved with soft tissue (like skin) still intact? Certainly not the “complex river system” they imagine buried this creature in silt and sandstone millions of years ago. After all, rivers in the present are not constantly burying and fossilizing creatures! So how do they know that must have happened in the past?
They don’t! That’s a worldview interpretation based on their starting point of evolution and millions of years of slow and gradual processes. But this find makes much more sense in a biblical worldview. We understand that this hadrosaur was rapidly and catastrophically buried during the global flood of Noah’s day. It wasn’t sitting around on a riverbank waiting to be buried! It was submerged in a deluge of muddy water and buried by silt and sand, quickly becoming a fossil. (And this wasn’t millions of years ago—it was just around 4,350 years ago.)

Science—including the study of dinosaurs—continues to confirm the history in God’s Word again and again.

Amen to that!! The Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth. There is no other.

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DocSavage · M

Once again belief follows truth, and faith follows bullshit.
Don’t you ever get tired of constantly embarrassing Yahweh ?

Peterpaul17 · 36-40, M

@DocSavage Apparantly no practical? Only theory? They can avoid fossilation for millions of years? Has anyone put them on experiment for so long? Only you say TRUST IN WHAT YOU SEE. How do you know about this is true? Because some random scientist said so, the same who said The Sun consists only of Hydrogen and Helium because that frog of the well was living on earth and know about the elements present on earth and not on sun?

What a misconception and tragic to know that darkness sorrounds scientusts in the name of pseudo science which is not a science in itself.

DocSavage · M

@Peterpaul17

Not just some random scientist. Several scientists, with overlapping evidence. That’s better than an old book that still says the Earth is flat.

Peterpaul17 · 36-40, M

@DocSavage Whatever suits your needs, keep that in pocket.

DocSavage · M

@Peterpaul17

Only you say TRUST IN WHAT YOU SEE. How do you know about this is true? Because some random scientist said so

Sorry chowder head, that is not what I say. Scientist, actually examine what they see. They observe, and they test. It’s not just their say so. That’s religion, not us.
They can use telescopes to see stars, and guess what, unlike the bible, they do not consider them merely pinholes of light. They can tell you how they form, and what happens when they die.

Peterpaul17 · 36-40, M

@DocSavage What happens when humans die? They can not tell us how they are formed. They only assume. They can not tell us how the earth is formed? Do you know how many theories are there in the formation of this planet? Each scientist has his own belief. So they give hypothesis "This might have happened"

Once they don't know a thing, they call it black hole and God's particle. Your knowledge of science is so shallow and yet you believe what they say?

DocSavage · M

@Peterpaul17
As a matter of fact, they do know how planets are formed.
As for dead humans, pretty much the same thing that happens with other dead animals. You fail to comprehend, that these things are observable.
When have you ever seen a golem come to life ? If god can do that, then why follow it up with a transgender clone ? Is that how you figure life began ?

Hypotheses can be tested. Creation can’t, you follow the evidence.

Peterpaul17 · 36-40, M

@DocSavage They DO NOT know how planets are formed. Every decade, they formulate new theories. The one is NEBULAR theory. The other one is "TWO STARS theory" and so on. They just want to explain the formation somehow. But i would conclude that they are unable to do so. Something comes in between and with all the new knowledge each passing decade, they always come up with new theories.
For example - The nature of light as explained by Newton was later on rejected. He used his brain perfectly and right now also, there are Alot of things which we don't even know about the monochromatic nature of light.

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DocSavage · M

@Peterpaul17
Tell me chuckles, do you really believe god just said a word, and everything popped out of nothing ? At least Odin was in to recycling. He used the dismembered corpse of a frost giant.
Every once in a while, some scientist actually comes up with a sensible answer to one of life’s mysteries. They take time, it takes work, it takes more than one shot. But when they find what works, it alway different from the Bible. Get used to it.

DocSavage · M

@bleach
Somethings come naturally.

Pikachu

@Peterpaul17

Only theory? They can avoid fossilation for millions of years?

Well that picture isn't quite accurate. In fact these soft tissues did mineralize and it was only after being chemically treated for many hours that they became soft tissue. So certainly more well preserved than previously thought possible but not actually soft tissue that never decayed.

Has anyone put them on experiment for so long?

Not for that long, but the woman who discovered this tissue, Dr Mary Schweitzer (a Christian) did indeed run experiments to see how high iron could preserve tissue for a surprisingly long time,.

Furthermore, while young earth creationists champion this discovery as proof that the earth must be far younger than we thought, it actually demonstrates the opposite.
Here's why:

If the earth is indeed young then we should be finding this mineralized soft tissue everywhere.
Additionally we should be finding the same types of tissue in everything from Dinosaurs to saber toothed cats to ancient humans...but we don't.
In dinosaurs we've found these incredibly robust molecules but none of the much more fragile molecules like DNA. Whereas in fossilized Neanderthal human bones (in conventional science, much more recent) we have been able to find enough DNA to sequence their genome!

If the earth is young and most humans and animals died at the same time in the flood, why does the type and preservation of organic tissue we find correspond to the old Earth timeline where we would expect to see more ancient organisms with less organic tissue preserved and more recent organisms with more and more fragile tissue preserved?