THE PRESENCE OF DNA WITHIN DINOSAUR BONES

Over the past twenty years, numerous scientific reports have been published in the leading journals that document the discovery of soft tissue and DNA within the bones of dinosaurs. 

1 A Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone was dissolved in acid, which revealed soft elastic blood vessels that contained what appeared to be red blood cells. (Ref. Smithsonian Magazine, “Probing a 68 million year old T. rex, Mary Schweitzer stumbled upon astonishing signs of life that may radically change our view of the ancient beasts”, by H. Fields, May 2006).

2 Another piece of the Tyrannosaurus rex bone was analysed and identified the presence of eleven peptides which equalled approximately fifteen percent of the length of a DNA strand of collagen. (Ref. San Antonio J.D., Schweitzer M.H., Jensen S.T., Kalluri R, Buckley M, Orgel J.P.R.O., (2011) Dinosaur Peptides Suggest Mechanisms of Protein Survival. PLOS ONE 6(6): e20381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020381).

3 A Mozasaur bone was dissolved in acid and exposed a fine radiating network of soft tissue. When antibodies that were raised against Type 1 Collagen were applied to the Mozasaur soft tissue, a positive reaction which indicated the presence of Collagen was observed. Collagen is the most common protein that exists within bone tissue. To confirm that the Mozasaur tissue was not a modern bacterial biofilm that had grown inside the blood vessel cavities, the tissue was tested using a vibrational spectra. The absorbance spectra pattern of the Mozasaur tissue was found to be “markedly different” from that of a modern bacterial biofilm. Fibrous tissues within the Mosasaur bone were also photographed under a scanning electron microscope. The images of the fibres, identified regions which did not appear to have been mineralised. (Ref. Lindgren J, Uvdal P, Engdahl A, Lee AH, Alwmark C, Bergquist K-E, et al. (2011) Microspectroscopic Evidence of Cretaceous Bone Proteins. PLOS ONE 6(4): e19445. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019445).

DNA DOES NOT SURVIVE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS

The preservation of DNA was studied in the bones of the extinct Moa bird in New Zealand. It was found that Mitochondrial DNA that was 242 base pairs in length, had an average half-life of only 521 years. This would place the total time it would take for all of the DNA in a bone to decay at only a few thousand years. (Ref. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. “The half-life of DNA bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils”. M.E. Allencroft et al. 2012).

Further DNA research on the remains of Egyptian mummies, which were only a few thousand years old, concluded that long term DNA survival was improbable. (Ref. Gilbert, M.T. et al “Long term survival of ancient DNA in Egypt: response to Zink and Nerlich (2003)”, Am J. Phys. Anthropol. 128, 110-114 discussion 115-118 (2005) [Pubmed]).

If DNA cannot survive for more than a few thousand years, then it is impossible for the bones of the dinosaurs which still contain DNA fragments, to be millions of years old. 

The geological evidence confirms the Biblical account of the flood and the young age of the Earth which God created.

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