Fw: It's no joke!

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Roberts
To: Vernon Jenkins ; asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: It's no joke!

This arrived at my bedtime so I couldn't reply before. I don't understand what Vernon means " However, it is now evident that the situation offers a rare opportunity for 'old earth' proponents to justify this much-quoted feature of the geologic column." The geological column was worked out in principle long before dinosaurs were found or extinction known - late 18th century to be precise.Evolution has no part to play in the setting up of the geological column and much was done without fossils eg the work of Smith and Sedgwick. (For the record Sedgwick was an evangelical cleric, and Smith was advised by evangelical clerics, indicating the lack of problem evangelicals 200 years ago had with the vast age of the earth) Vernon can you please explain it and what the much-quoted feature is.

Michael

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Vernon Jenkins
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:01 PM
  Subject: Re: It's no joke!

  Regardless of whether or not there are still traces of blood vessels and cells in these T.Rex bones, it is certainly remarkable that they are not completely fossilised after spending ' 70 million years' entombed in sandstone. All things considered, an impartial skeptic might reasonably inquire whether this generous estimate of burial time makes any sense. However, it is now evident that the situation offers a rare opportunity for 'old earth' proponents to justify this much-quoted feature of the geologic column. Thus, a simple C14 test on a sample of the material and/or associated bone - openly conducted and properly monitored - would certainly shed some much needed light on the matter, and in the interests of truth would surely be hard to deny.

  Vernon
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Vernon Jenkins
    To: asa@calvin.edu
    Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:10 PM
    Subject: It's no joke!

      To the Forum:

      Some hot news has recently come my way :-

      WASHINGTON (AP) -- For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/24/rex.tissue.ap/index.html

      Surely this must test the credulity of even the most ardent of evolutionists!!

      Vernon
       

       
Received on Mon Mar 28 03:38:44 2005