Soft Tissue in Dinosaurs
You have
heard about the discovery of soft tissue and organic remains in dinosaurs and
other fossils.
Now they
have found remains of compound eyes in an animal in the oldest strata the
Cambrian claimed to be 600 million years old. The 3 to 6 foot long
Cambrian shrimp-like animal known as Anomalocaris has been found preserved with soft
eye tissue. “Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and
the origin of compound eyes” paper published in the December 2011 edition of
the journal Nature, describes the soft eye tissues in the Anomalocaris. These
complex eyes have more than 16,000 lenses in each eye. John R. Paterson, a paleontologist at the University of New
England in Australia said, “The common housefly has only 3,200 and most ants
have fewer than 1,000.”
It has been
proven that organic remains cannot survive more than a 4 million years, not 65 million
much less 600 million! Soft tissue tends to decay in a matter of days or
weeks it is even a mystery for creation scientists about how organic remains
can last 5 thousand years since the Flood. From a chemical point of view, it is
hard to understand how it can stay organic.
Evolutionists
have not been able to refute the preservation of organic substances, so they
have ignored it and most of the public is ignorant of these facts being suppressed
by the Liberal CFR controlled Fake News media. But for those involved in the
conspiracy know some of the public does know this, and they have worked hard to
find a mechanism to preserve organic substances for a few million years with
the fact that iron can be a preservative. And they promote this as if it was a
fact.
Dr. Mary
Schweitzer and her colleagues began by examining soft tissue from her Tyrannosaurus.
rex fossil as well as a Brachylophosaurus Canadensis fossil.
The T. rex fossil is supposed to be about 68 million years
old, and B. canadensis is supposed to be about 76 million
years old. Nevertheless, under a transmission
electron microscope, both are seen to harbor soft vessels that are probably
blood vessels. They found these vessels have tiny particles of iron embedded in
them.
The iron came
from the dinosaurs’ blood. When the dinosaurs were alive, the iron was bound to
a blood protein hemoglobin.
After death the hemoglobin decayed, releasing the iron and allowing some to
remain balls of hematite and some to mix with the tissues. Most biological
molecules are polymers, and are in long chains of repeating
chemical units. Proteins are long chains of smaller chemicals called amino
acids. It is well known that iron, when it reacts with oxygen, can cause
polymers to link together in a process called cross-linking. When
polymers link together, they are more resistant to decay.
It
is impossible to scientifically
test and observe the answer to this question. No one has
ever observed the effects of millions of years on anything. The millions-of-years
age assigned to the strata containing dinosaur fossils is derived from many unverifiable
assumptions. The fact that dinosaur
soft tissues are preserved in some fossils does not mean that iron or anything else has
been preserved for millions of years. Iron chelation may be
the key to some preservation, supported by Schweitzer’s work, but nothing in
the research proves how long such preservation could be effective.
The fact is
preservation for 4 thousand years since the Flood in 2347 BC is a mystery that
is explained by this iron. But how organic remains which usually last only days
before decomposition begins does not explain preservation in petrified fossils
65 to 600 million years old.
Big problem
not all specimens of dinosaur soft tissue is not found with iron.
There are at
least three things that indicate lots more research has to be done on this
issue before it can be used to claim dinosaur soft tissue is preserved for
millions of years:
(1) The
ostrich blood vessels were preserved for “only” two years. While this is more
than 240 times longer than what happens under normal conditions, it is
still a far cry from millions of years. Hopefully, the authors
are continuing the experiment to see how well the vessels remain preserved
after a much longer timespan.
(2) The
ostrich blood vessels were stored at room temperature throughout the course of
the experiment. While this is a good first step, in order to really see how
well this preservation holds, the authors need to vary the temperature in a way
that is realistic. I would think that simulating the freeze/thaw cycle that happens
every year would deteriorate the blood vessels over a long timespan.
(3) It’s not
clear that iron is always associated with soft tissue in dinosaur bones. For
example, consider one of the
most striking examples of soft tissue preservation in a dinosaur fossil. If
you look at the photos in that paper, you see no evidence of iron particles. I
contacted the lead author of the paper, and he informed me that he saw no iron
particles or crystals in association with the soft bone cells in his samples.
The only place he saw iron was inside partially-degraded tissues. So while iron
might help preserve some soft tissue, it is probably not responsible for all
soft-tissue preservation.
The latest
discovery comes from a Triceratops from
Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation in Montana, which is supposed to be 65 million
years old.
Under scanning
electron microscopy the Triceratops bone revealed delicate Filipodial
extensions showing no evidence of any permineralization or crystallization (fossilization
by petrification replacement by minerals like silicon) and therefore were
original organic remains of bone cells.
So it really
seems like they were seeing intact, soft osteocytes from a Triceratops fossil
found in the Hell Creek Formation. It is hard enough to understand how a bone
cell can exist like that for thousands of years. The idea that it has lasted
for 65 million years simply boggles the mind.
This
evidence along with the fact that radiometric dating has been falsified when it
gives random dates in millions of years to any volcanic rock, including lava
from all recent eruptions including Mt Saint Helens which we know was formed in
1980. And the fact that Carbon 14 cannot last any longer than 50 thousand
years, but it has also been found in dinosaur bones.
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