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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/14/2004 : 08:36:01
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I wasn't sure how I wanted to do this, so I think I'll do it in two pieces. Here's the first, by Dr. Carl Wieland, of Answers in Genesis. Dr. Wieland in an MD and the CEO of the ministry, and writes a lot on many many subjects from a YEC point of view. The artical concerns itself with 'fresh' dinosaur blood.
I'm sure we all remember the noise generated some years ago over the T-rex bone that seemed to contain some red blood cells. Well, here 'tis in all it's gore-y (anything for a pun! )
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The story starts with a beautifully preserved T. rex skeleton unearthed in the United States in 1990. When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.' To find unfossilized dinosaur bone is already an indication more consistent with a young age for the fossils (see box).
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/4232cen_s1997.asp
This is an interesting read in spite of some misrepresentations. I'll let y'all pick at it a while before I post the rebuttal. It too, is a good read, and as we have some young gentlemen of a Creationist bent amongst us, It'll be a good comparison for them.
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ivanisavich
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 Posted - 02/14/2004 : 20:17:50 [Permalink]
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| Well...no extensive comments from me....but I'm skeptical of this one and think that there's probably more to the story. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2004 : 02:52:36 [Permalink]
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Erm, yes, quite a bit more.
I'm doing this to point out how some Creationist organizations work, especally those that claim to do science. I'm not picking on AiG particularly (oh but I am, I am!) -- they just had the misfortune to be the first I stumbled across that I could easily reference.
As there's not much action on the thread, sometime today or maybe tomorrow I'll post "The rest of the story," as the old horse-lover said.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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ivanisavich
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/16/2004 : 06:21:59 [Permalink]
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Well, I'm waiting then...
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2004 : 07:23:58 [Permalink]
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"K, here it comes:
This is written by Gary Hurd Ph.D., a paleontologist. It is well thought out and heavily referenced. One would think that it would put paid to the 'fresh' blood and 'unfossilized' dino bones booshwa, but I fear that just ain't happenin'. For good or ill, faith will conquer fact in the eyes of many.
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In the case of the dinosaur "red blood cell" argument aggressively promoted by Dr Carl Wieland, CEO of Answers in Genesis Ministry, Australia there is an active denial of fact that is astounding. Wieland has particularly focused on popular magazine stories, and short news items concerning the graduate school research by Mary H. Schweitzer on the organic residues from a single Tyrannosaurus rex bone. However, his misrepresentations have gained wide dispersal, and presumably acceptance within creationism. They have even been presented publicly to school boards in the United States as "scientific proof" of a 6,000-year-old Earth, and reason to replace science education with supernaturalism. We will leave the dating issues for a future analysis where we may examine the related creationist claims that the survival of other biomolecules, such as the bone protein osteocalcin, demonstrate that the Universe is young. Instead, we focus below on the observation that creationists have not even correctly read or represented the scientific literature concerning the results from Schweitzer and colleagues' research.
http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/YEC_and_dino_blood.htm
I was going to go on at greater length myself; rabid fulminations about the common misrepresentations that these organizations put forth in favor of young earth creationism, but decided that Dr. Hurd is doing it way better than I ever could, and without resorting to profanity. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 02/16/2004 : 09:12:41 [Permalink]
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Funny. We sometimes call the "Institute for Creation Research" "The Institute for Quotation Research." The ICR even puts out a book called "In Their Own Words," a collection of quotes from scientists which, when taken out of there original context, seem to debunk evolution. The ICR sells this book so that creationists will have "a powerful tool when arguing with evolutionists." Of course, this couldn't be further from the truth. Those of us who know something about evolution almost immediately recognize the authors of these quotes and can usually infer the correct context, removed or not. What the book actually does is reinforce the thinking of creationists. The book is preaching to the choir. And, there is no regard for how old the quotes are either. Fifty year old quotes are common.
Taking quotes out of there context is lying. Plain and simple. Continuing to publish lies after they have been exposed as such, sometimes by the very people that they quoted, is shameless lying.
Morris, Gish, Hovind, Wieland and the rest of these men of God are a pack of liars. |
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Why not question something for a change?
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