Why do "young earth" Christians site this a evidence, when the devout Christian scientist who actualy made the discovery say the bones are 60+ million years old, and says that she is horrified that some Christians accuse her of hiding the true meaning of her data. “They treat you really bad,” she says. “They twist your words and they manipulate your data.”
2007-11-12 06:12:24 · 6 answers · asked by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur.html?page=3
2007-11-12 06:12:35 · update #1
lol-Thanks for posting this!
2007-11-12 06:27:39 · answer #1 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The article you linked to is right to call it a "shocker"! After all, how could 70-million year old T-rex bones still contain soft tissue?
Add to this the other evidences that dinosaurs were still on Earth just a few thousand years ago (ancient art that shows dinosaurs, human and dinosaur fossils in the same locations, ancient legends that describe creatures that sound like dinosaurs, the Biblical creatures in Job 40 & 41, etc.), and there is plenty of evidence to at least seriously question the "evolutionary timetable"!
2007-11-12 06:34:50 · answer #2 · answered by JoeBama 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would say it is because they don't want to know the truth. I once saw a book that claimed the Grand Canyon was created in an afternoon. And the author actually believed this!
2007-11-12 06:17:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with her and the rest of the quote.....
For her, science and religion represent two different ways of looking at the world; invoking the hand of God to explain natural phenomena breaks the rules of science. After all, she says, what God asks is faith, not evidence. “If you have all this evidence and proof positive that God exists, you don’t need faith. I think he kind of designed it so that we’d never be able to prove his existence. And I think that’s really cool.”
2007-11-12 06:37:52 · answer #4 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually they were not blood cells, I think that creationists claim this, but rather molecular remnants of heme, a protein found in blood. That it could persist for millions of years is attributed to its fossilization in a formaldehyde like, sealed environment.
2007-11-12 06:25:18 · answer #5 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They probably think that the likelihood of it surviving so long is nonexistant.
2007-11-12 06:18:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋