Evolution - Gee, Soft Tissue CAN last 70 Million Years
Well, thats what they are saying now.
Dr Mary Schweitzer has released a paper in Science(subscription required) outlining soft tissue being found in a 70 million year old dinosaur.

Reading her article and an additional article on the subject by Erik Stokstad in the same issue of Science there is scant reflection on whether or not soft tissue should be able to survive that long in ANY conditions and so the 70 Million Year age given should be questioned.

Instead we get this

Whether preservation is strictly morphological and the result of some kind of unknown geochemical replacement process or whether it extends to the subcellular and molecular levels is uncertain.

A brilliant example of begging the question...Ad Hoc explanations are not science.

Update: Something I forgot to comment on the first time is that

Since the discovery, she [Schweitzer] has found similar samples of soft tissue in two other Tyrannosaur fossils and a hadrosaur.

So the fairly remarkable conditions are not a fluke???

So will they find DNA with it? Both Stokstad and BBC report that DNA degrades over a timescale of thousands of years.

Also of note is that several years ago, Answers in Genesis (AUG) published stories of red blood cells being found in a T-Rex Fossil of at least 65 Million years age. The evolutionist community of course was highly skeptical that they were red blood cells. Mary Schweitzer did not release a paper on this, and the only discussion in a journal was in a short term popular science journal.

Now it seems AIG's claims are somewhat vindicated.
- posted by Alan Grey @ Monday, March 28, 2005