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 Ancient Fossils with Preserved Soft Tissues and DNA
by Sean Pitman
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One of the earliest published reports concerned DNA extracted from fossil Magnolia leaves (with intact fragments measuring up to 800 base pairs) found in lake bottom sediments of Miocene age, supposedly 17-20 million years old.3 This find was quite interesting because the magnolia leaves were still wet. Of course, DNA disintegrates fairly rapidly when in contact with water. In commenting on the remarkably old DNA in the supposedly 17-million-year-old magnolia leaf, Savante Pääbo exclaimed, "The clay was wet, however, and one wonders how DNA could have survived the damaging influence of water for so long." 24 ...
Scientists are asking, "How can this protein be so fresh when it is contained in such old bones?" We should consider the possibility that they will never find the answer because they might be asking the wrong question. Maybe they should ask, "How can these bones be so old when they contain such fresh protein?" That throws a whole new light on the subject. They will not ever figure out how protein and DNA can last for tens of millions of years without breaking down if protein and DNA cannot really last for tens of millions of years. They might just as well be wasting their time ...
Such finds are much more consistent with a fairly recent catastrophic burial within just a few thousand years of time. Non-catastrophic burial would allow for rapid biodegradation of such delicate soft tissues. Time itself destroys soft tissues as well as DNA and proteins in short order. Current real-time observations suggest that bio-proteins could not remain intact more than a few tens of thousands of years - 100,000 years at the very outside limit of protein decay. The fact that such proteins are found, intact, in bones supposedly older than 65 million years is simply inconsistent with such an assumed age - by many orders of magnitude ... |
Full Report Written by Dr. Sean Pitman: http://www.detectingdesign.com/fossilizeddna.html
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