Re: paleonet PaleoNet: Soft tissue in dinosaur bone

["Nikolaus Malchus" <n.malchus@xxxxxxx>]

Anti-evolutionists shed doubt but don't prove anything.
This attitude does not make for a new scientific hypothesis and less so for
any counter-evidence to current hypotheses or theories.
I agree that it is at us (simply because anti-evos won't do it) to show what
is going on, and here there seems to be a good chance. The preservation of
the bone and tissue material in question appear to be good enough for DNA
and age analysis. I only wonder why this was not already done, as this is
not the first find according to Schweitzer et al.

Cheers,

Niko

> Dear PaleoNetters
> I find it very discouraging that responses on PaleoNet to the "Scientists 
> Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone" announcement only elicit anti-ID & 
> anti-Creationist (or to react positively to the negative reactions: 
> pro-Evolution responses).  Has paleonet become solely an Anti-Creationist 
> list; what happened to the science of Paleontology??
> 
> Thanks Allison, for your refreshing positive response to a significant
> find 
> / announcement!
> 
> -Ted Donaho
> Houston, TX
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allison Daley" <adaley4@uwo.ca>
> Subject: paleonet PaleoNet: Soft tissue in dinosaur bone
> 
> 
> >I did some background research on the website sent to Paleonet earlier
> this 
> >weekend, found at 
> >http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2005/0325Dino_tissue.asp
> >
> > This article describes soft tissue discovered in a dinosaur bone, and 
> > similar reports can be found on many other websites including CNN and 
> > MSNBC (where the
> > articles do not draw the conclusion that this tissue means dinosaurs are
> > only a few thousand years old).  All of these reports seem to be based
> on 
> > an article
> > published in Science on March 25, 2005.  The reference is:
> >
> > Schweitzer, M.H., Wittmeyer, J.L., Horner, J.R. and J.K. Toporski. 2005.
> > Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. 
> > Science
> > 307: 1952-1955.
> >
> > I don't know what to make of this intriguing research.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Allison 
> 
> 
> 

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