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By Hank Walker | Pastor at Peach City Fellowship

I am not a paleontologist. However, I am a formally trained researcher, and an area of keen interest for me is biblical APOLOGETICS (the defense of Scripture against other worldviews and interpretations of history). Within the discipline of apologetics, the “Science versus Scripture debate” often leads to confusion and doubt for Christians. How, for instance, might one make sense of the Bible’s claims of a young earth when science supposedly proves otherwise? But what if the science is not so settled?

Supposedly extinct for 65 million years, dinosaurs are often cited as a reason to believe in a very old earth. However, recent discoveries challenge this widely accepted notion.

Dr. Mary Schweitzer, while examining slices of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex femur, found, to her surprise, that the bone contained blood vessels like those in the bone marrow of living reptiles and birds, contained red blood cells with their nuclei, and appeared to be lined with specialized endothelial cells common to all blood vessels. Shockingly, the bone marrow was still flexible!

Skeptically, some scientists proposed that these structures were merely bacterial biofilms— aggregates of dead bacteria. However, Schweitzer’s team produced biochemical evidence of intact collagen fragments, a protein vital for connective tissue that bacteria cannot produce.

Evolutionists criticized Schweitzer’s conclusions, hesitant to accept the existence of blood vessels and cells in a bone dated at 68 million years old, but others find her evidence compelling. Scientifically, no tissue had ever been confirmed to have survived a million years.

This raises a critical question: can blood vessels, cells, and protein fragments remain intact for 68 million years? Evolutionists have no answer for Schweitzer’s findings, but Creationists have long proposed that dinosaurs died off only 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. If Creationists are correct, well-preserved biological tissues should be expected, just like those observed in Egyptian mummies from the same era. The Tyrolean iceman, discovered in 1991 and believed to be around 5,000 years old, also exhibits excellent DNA preservation and microscopic details.

If one merely follows the facts, it becomes apparent that the preservation of vessels, cells, and complex molecules in dinosaurs aligns with a young earth. Time, research, and modern discoveries regularly leave the scientific establishment with egg on its face; the same is not true of the claims made by Scripture.

Grace and peace, y’all.

Soli Deo Gloria