Bernie Dehler wrote:
> He also said there was some kind of ancient bush that was found
living...
> ancient like dinosaur, and it is like finding a living dinosaur. I
need to
> research that one. I can't find the type of bush online right now...
Maybe I
> can't find it online now because it was discredited? The video was a
few
> years old.
Dr. David Campbell wrote:
Might be misrepresenting the Wollemi pine. Fossils were known from
the Cretaceous, same age as younger dinosaurs. Living ones recently
discovered in a remote spot in Australia. Study of the living ones
shows that a distinctive fossil pollen type known from much of the
Cenozoic (after dinosaurs to the present) also goes with them, so the
gap between the fossil record and the living ones is much smaller.
Again, there's nothing about the survival of a species that poses a
problem for old earth views.
Hi David,
You are right. Here's the article:
"Sensational Australian tree ... like 'finding a live dinosaur'"
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i2/tree.asp
Excerpt:
Professor Carrick Chambers, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in
Sydney, has said of the sensational discovery of a type of tree in
Australia's Blue Mountains (200 kilometres west of Sydney, in Wollemi
National Park) that it was like finding a 'live dinosaur'. This is
because the tree, nicknamed the Wollemi pine, is known from fossils
classed as so-called Jurassic age around 150 million years ago, but not
from fossils in rocks of later periods.
More info:
http://www.wollemipine.com/news/Tree_Chic.php
It is an interesting data-point to see what the best evidence each camp
is putting forth to bolster their case.
...Bernie
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