DINO DNA PROBLEM
as Canadian Synthetic Chemistry Prof Ed Neeland refers us to “The half-life of
DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils”, Proc. Royal
Society B 279(1748):4724–4733, 7 December 2012, where authors Allentoft,
M.E. et al., concluded that even when preserved in bone, DNA is
completely disintegrated in 22,000 years at 25°C, 131,000 years at 15°C, 882,000
years at 5°C; and 6.83 million years at –5°C. Prof Ed comments: “Finding dino
DNA in “millions” of years old bone is a bit of a problem for evolutionists
eh?
ED. COM. Ed Neeland is right – this is a serious problem
for evolutionists who have found DNA in dinosaur bones, as they insist dinosaur
bones are a long way older than 6.83 million years – the oldest estimate
in Allencroft's calculations. In 2012, around the same time this study was
published, Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University and colleagues
found DNA in aTyrannosaurus rex bone dated as 67 million years
andBrachyloposaurusbone dated as 80 million years. (Ref: Bone doi:
10.1016/j.bone.2012.10.010, 16 October 2012)
In 1994 Scott Woodward and colleagues isolated DNA from a bone dated as
80 million years old. (Ref: Science, vol. 266, pp1229-1232, 18 November
1993) This find is a particularly big problem as the bone was found in the roof
of a coal mine in a rock formation where they suggest the temperature had
reached 90°C to 95°C. Note the only way Allencroft's study indicates DNA can
last more than just one million years is if it is frozen at -5°C. All these
inconsistencies can be resolved easily by rejecting the evolutionists’ belief in
millions of years, and accepting the Bible’s record of thousands of years for
the age of the earth and the things that are buried in its rock layers. (Ref:
dating, age, biochemistry, decay.) Creation
Research.
