Can unfossilized red blood cells and DNA fragments of dinosaur bones really last for millions of years? Is it possible that these fragile organic molecules can last after millions and millions of years?
I was talking with a skeptic and she says that tissue and red blood cells do not rot all by themselves and that requires the presence of bacteria. No bacteria, no rotting.
Is is true?
She says that uranium-238, uranium-235 and potassium-40 methods are used instead of carbon-14. And that is how the age of dinosaur fossils are about 65 million years old.
She says that the same method is used in minerals all over the world to calculate the age of the earth.
Is this info true or half true or just simply false?
Wow this skeptic is a bit uninformed about radiometic dating methods.
I do not know this persons background but Uranium and Potassium methods are NEVER used to date fossils and even if they were wild results would be generated. Of course someone may have done 1000 radiometic tests and found 1 that was close to what they wanted and that was the one they kept.
An informed person who has studied radiometric dating well knows that results are highly unreliable.
So many examples of their unreliablily exists it is pathetic when someone (if they are not just jacking their jaw) in an academic role would make such an invalid statement.
However, 25 species of dinosaurs that were frozen in Alaska were collected and analyzed by Cedarville College. I was informed that they used radio active Carbon 14 testing and found significant amouts in the samples. Now Carbon 14 has a half life of just over 5500 years and in 60,000 years there is no trace of it found. So these dinosaur bones using a much more reliable method are quite young. In fact the 50,000 - 60-000 year indication is based on non-changing rations which during the flood things changed and before things were very different as well. These dating methods make lots of assumptions that deem them unreliable.
But Radio Carbon was found in diamonds and coal samples from many places over the earth. This means they could be no more than 60,000 years old and diamonds are not subject to contamination like the evilutionists say happens ALWAYS to the biblical creation science samples. Ask her to explain that since the layers of rock those diamond and coal sample were taken from are well over 100 million years old according to evilutionists.
The Rate studies I am referring to are well documented withing a few years and done by the best radiometric labs in the world.
But my experience with people like this is no matter what kind of information you provide them they will explain it away. That is why a person must be ready to seek out who God is before they will convert to Christianity. If they Seek Him, they will find. But spending time arguing over facts like these is mostly a waste of time unless the skeptic is trying to seek God, then they may listen.
