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Author: mtblanco1
Saturday 8-13-2005
Today, I talk about the "origins of racism" in the Origins of Species. Little people stories abound from around the world. Some are legend, some are myth and some are genuinely historical, as it is in this story. Click here to read about the little people from Indonesia.
Saturday 8-6-2005
James Taylor, the son of my younger brother Tom grew up south of Crosbyton on the S/K Ranch. He lives in Mississippi with his wife and kids but began helping me on digs back in the 80's. James is the co-pastor of the Aberdeen Primitive Baptist Church. He graduated from Texas A&M, class of '93, with a degree in Biomedical Science. Click here to read his article.
Thursday 7-7-2005
Wednesday 6-8-2005
In a message dated 6/3/2005 7:23:46 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, erazz@------- writes:
Interesting New York Times article on the soft tissue Tyrannosaurus Rex find. I've added some emphasis to the article below. Great jabs between advocates of the Bird to Dinosaur link and opponents as well.
T. Rex Fossil's Surprise: She Was Ovulating
By _JOHN NOBLE WILFORD_
Published: June 3, 2005
For the second time in two months, a Tyrannosaurus rex recently excavated in Montana has surprised scientists. Among its rock-hard fossils, the scientists had already isolated soft tissues, including blood vessels and cells lining them - a most improbable discovery after 70 million years. The same paleontologists may now have topped that. They are reporting today
that the same T. rex has yielded unusual bone tissue that shows that the animal was an ovulating female. Until now, distinguishing the sex of dinosaurs has been impossible without well-preserved pelvic bones. Moreover, after careful testing, the scientists determined that the estrogen-derived tissue was similar to substances now present only in living birds that produce eggshells.
The discovery team concludes in a report in the journal Science that the finding "solidifies the link between dinosaurs and birds" and "provides an objective means of gender differentiation in dinosaurs." Dr. Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State University, the team leader, and John R. Horner of the Museum ofthe Rockies at Montana State University described the research on Tuesday in a teleconference arranged by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of the journal. When she first examined the marrow cavities of the dinosaur leg bones, Dr. Schweitzer said, "I knew right away there was special bone tissue, and it had all the characteristics of medullary bone tissue." Medullary tissue, previously associated just with female birds, is formed by an increase in estrogen levels during a bird's egg-laying cycle and is deposited on the interior walls of the leg bones. The tissue serves as a reservoir of calcium for eggshells. After the last egg is laid, the tissue is
completely reabsorbed into the bird's body. Dr. Schweitzer said the presence of such tissue in the T. rex indicated that the reproductive physiologies of some dinosaurs might have been similar those of to modern birds, in particular flightless ones like ostriches and emu...
Joe's Thoughts
On the new T-rex "ovulating female" article. Two things; First, in 1998, when professor Mark Armitage electron scanned my piece of T-rex hip bone from Wyoming and found collagen, there was more to it than I may have told you. He also scanned hip bone material from an East Indian man who died about 15 years before. He said that under high microscopy of the human collagen, that it was virtually identical to that of the T-rex. Sooo...if the estrogen derived lining of an ovulating bird is "similar" to that found in the T-rex bone and therefore its strong evidence of a common ancestor....are we to suspect that humans and T-rexes had a common ancestor? Second; the article says that T-rex eggs have never been found. If I'm not mistaken, there were some for sale a few years ago. I'll try to find that info. I know of a clump of "T-rex dung" from Canada that was for sale for $800 a few years ago. It was gray and had black bones sticking out of it.
Atmospheric Telescoping
Hugh et al:
Consider atmospheric "telescoping": Having dug all over and worked with fossils from the obvious flood sediments such as the Ordovician, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and then having worked in the areas of question, the Tertiary, Oligocene, Miocene, and then in the pretty much accepted Post flood layers of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and then in the unquestioned Holocene, and lastly modern, without going in to all the ramifications, it seems to me that the earth ala C-14 reckoning went through a "telescoping" after the flood. It seems like the pre-flood world was constant, albeit there may have been violent earthquakes and volcanic activity, but at least the "canopy" or something kept things a tolerable "tropics" all over the globe. This "canopy" may have broken up which may account for all the limestone, clay, limestone, clay etc. layers all over the earth. But, here's my point, maybe there was a disintegration of the pre-flood atmosphere that we are not giving enough thought to, such as the air stayed warm for a while, then it telescoped down and has become increasingly colder at perhaps some "knowable" rate. There may have been a lot of dust in the air for a time. Also, the sediments that cover much of the dinosaurs may have been hot, at least warm. There appear to have been a lot of water on the land after the waters abated. Also, all of those vast layers of mud in Colorado, Montana etc. must have created a lot of springs and artesian wells and were probably a big water factor for perhaps several hundred years. Over in Artesia New Mexico, there used to be lots of artesian wells, springs, in the middle of flat land. I have studied these thousands of playa lakes all over West Texas and they appear to have once been artesian wells.
So, maybe C-14 dates need to be "telescoped" down a little further to account for the "un-hitched train car" affect of a slowly disintegrating pre-flood atmosphere and climate. Perhaps the idea of a pre-flood atmosphere and then the post-flood atmosphere being radically different to each other is not the whole picture. Maybe there was a "gray" period there between them. I think if this could be accounted for, it would help understand many of the fossil puzzles and give us dates that are more in line with the Biblical account. I think the adjustments to C-14 dates are long over due. Back 25 years ago when I asked Libby's assistant about how the "age" of C-14 was assessed, he hesitatingly replied, "it was established in the last half of the prior century." I took that to mean that "age" of the earth was more defined by the Darwinism of the 1800s than by empirical science.
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