[extropy-chat] Thoughts on Schiavo

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal at smigrodzki.org> wrote:
> Quoting spike <spike66 at comcast.net>:
> 
> > > >lead scientists to re-examine their theories of fossilization. >
> > > >
> > > >The answer is obvious: the T-rex, and all the other dinosaurs,
> were not
> > > >70-or-more million years old after all, but only 6000 at most.
> Praise the
> > > >Lord!
> > > >
> > > >Damien Broderick
> >
> > Tho Damien's post was mostly in jest, you can be sure
> > that creationists were delighted with the find.  For the
> > rest of our natural lives, we will hear creationists
> > mention this discovery as evidence that dinosaurs were
> > recent.
> >
> ### When I started googling about Mary Schweitzer, I found that her
> previous
> research about finding collagen in dino fossils elicited significant
> interest
> from the young-Earth creationists.
> 
> I bet the recent findings made them wet their pants - "Squishy dino
> pieces
> preserved in fossils - now, every child knows that this means they
> couldn't be older than a few weeks, or else all would've rotted away!
> Hallelujah!"

Is she finding actual tissue, or just fossilized impressions of soft
tissue? Finding soft tissue fossil impressions is the new thing these
days.

If she's finding actual soft tissue sealed up inside rock, that is
interesting. Says wonderful things about those vacuum sealers you can
buy on QVC to preserve your leftovers.... if the location within the
rock has been arid the whole time and anoxic, why shouldn't tissue be preserved?

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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