I’ll never forget that smell. Buenos Aires, Argentina. They took us to a cemetery that held the mausoleum of Evita Peron. A fee had to be paid for bodies to remain in the cemetery, and if one’s heirs couldn’t pay, or didn’t pay, that corpse was removed. That happened while we were there. They had dug up some poor soul and a dirty wheelbarrow was moving the remains. You could smell death. It was pungent, and strong.
In 1990, Dr. Mary Schweitzer from Montana State University discovered T. rex red blood cells in a bone that was unfossilized in its center. To be clear, she found original red blood cells from a Tyrannosaurus Rex, cells that still contained nuclei. As she herself described it, “All hell broke loose.” Because her discovery contradicted, and, in reality disapproved, the prevailing “deep time” consensus, she was viciously attacked. She persevered. In 2005 she found more dinosaur “soft tissue,” including original blood vessels. Similar discoveries have been made around the world. At present there are over 58 dinosaur soft tissue discoveries spanning thirty scientific journals.
Schweitzer noticed a distinct organic odor coming from a fossil. She described it as smelling “just like one of the cadavers we had in the lab who had been treated with chemotherapy before he died.” When she mentioned this to her colleague Jack Horner (a well-known dinosaur paleontologist), he reportedly replied, “Oh, yeah, all Hell Creek (a major dinosaur fossil site in Montana) bones smell.”
When people did up dinosaur fossils, they smell death. They smell rotting flesh.
I won’t bore you with the details, but the simple and profound truth is that soft tissue cannot survive for millions of years. (If you do want the details, here is a link to a technical article.) The excuses offered by “deep time” proponents are incredibly lame, and would be laughed at were they not necessary to maintain the fiction of deep time.
In my last post I asked you to rethink the prevailing view that the universe is billions of years old. It was a bit technical, but the bottom line was that as uranium decays into lead helium is released, and there is way way way too much helium remaining in the rocks for them to be the expected billions of years old. The difference wasn’t small, there was over 100,000 times as much helium as should be there. The measured amounts precisely matched the amount predicted by the Bible, which tells us Creation was thousands of years ago, not millions or billions. This proven fact – this 100,000 times discrepancy from conventional expectations – is one of the strongest scientific confirmations of the truth of the Bible.
The smell of death in dinosaur fossils, and the confirmed discoveries of soft (and even flexible!) dinosaur tissue are, in my view, equally powerful evidence. I ask you again to consider the possibility that the prevailing view is wrong. I claim again the universe can’t be millions or billions of years old. I claim again the Bible is true.
I regret the gap between my prior post. I had an uncomfortably close call with death myself.
Thanks for reading,
Doug Ell