Mummified Dinosaur Testing Faith of Creationists

4 years ago Science

Those who believe the world was created in a single day are most likely having a very trying day.

jesushorseAccording to creationists, this animal could have been one of Jesus' dinohorses

Literal interpertations of the creation story have various methods of explaining dinosaurs-- that they coexisted and died in Noah's flood, or that the fossils are traps laid by God to test our faith--but I don't think any of them were adequately prepared for this...

It seems that since 2004, paleontologists in southwest North Dakota have been carefully brushing away at what they believe is a duckbilled dinosaur, mummified in the mud--skin and all.

The 30-foot carcass, which is only the fourth dino-mummy found, and may very well be of the highest quality yet seen, has been examined by the largest CT scanner in the world in an attempt to quantify just what is hiding in a 5 ton block of sandstone. It will take approximately a year to unearth, and after that may become the main feature on a worldwide tour.

H/T: CNN and Barefoot and Progressive

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Ash says

May 9th, 2009 at 12am
Why are you christians surprised about what all these so called high profile scientists and their theories or people's comments ?? The bible clearly says that many people will be blind forever, no matter how much you persist with them. Secondly, knowing that most of the high profile scientists are/were Freemasons or any other flavour of a secret society which all work hand in hand with Freemasons, why would you be surprised ?? If you truly knew how all these secret societies work and have been working for a very long time, such as the most popular for the public eye, the Freemasons, and much more elite secret societies such as Skull & Bones (yes Skull & Bones, not exactly Rainbows & Flowers) which has members such as your previous President George Bush Junior (and his father Bush Senior) and his so called rivalry for Presidency John Kerry, Collin Powel, the list goes on. That's just Skull & Bones which is based at Yale University along with 3 other so called private clubs, Scroll & Key, WolfHead and another. These clubs don't exactly preach godly or righteous things, in fact quite the opposite, which do everything in their power to feed the public what they want them to believe, and it's been working wonderfully. I along with many others have video of our so called world leaders, bankers, congressmen, businessmen etc at Bohemian Grove (which is a privately owned massive ranch used for rituals and parties), all practically brainwashed watching a massive Owl (which is one of many important symbols in Freemasonry), and watching a few guys under the Owl dressed in Red Robes burning a Human, yes Human efigy. I mean even the Head honcho in Scientology is a Freemason. If you don't believe in God or find it hard to find information or proof (which you'll never find otherwise it wouldn't be faith and therefore, no point in the human creation from God's point of view), or you just find it utterly boring which most athiest people do, how about concentrating on the bad/evil side of things ?? If someone says they don't believe in God, then ofcourse, they also believe there cannot be a Devil, Lucifer or Satan. Yet so many Athiest friends of mine get frightened or don't want to watch (as it creeps them out) the many impossible to explain Exorcisms on possessed people and their souls/spirits. Why not really look into unexplainable evil things ?? There are some fake Exorcisms ofcourse, and then there's real Exorcisms on video with many witnesses (which are not all religous witnesses) such as a 9 year old Italian girl who the Devil speaks out of, saying words and sentences directly relating to God and the Bible, and she has never even picked up a Bible or learnt anything Bible and/or God/Satan related, and neither had her parents. She is also tied down with thick metal hook-clamps that muscly adults cannot even budge, and she bends them with un-explainable force while trying to move around as the Priest talks to her/Him. What will science do/say there ?? They'll just call it multi-peronality or something and move on, as the Bible says many people will be blind forever. I am Assyrian, we are the first nation as it clearly states in the Bible to fully accept Jesus Christ as our one and only Lord and son of God, as God used Jonah to preach to Nineveh, our ancient capital City which is in present day Iraq. There is a tablet confirming this from one of our Ancient Kings who offered Jesus our whole Kingdom and many other old stone tablets from Assyrians and other nations which relate to Jesus. Such as an ancient Hebrew stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text which wasn't discovered that long ago and scholars say it dates back a few decades before the Birth of Jesus, speaks of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.

tony says

Dec 2nd, 2008 at 12am
this article states that this mummified dinosaur help "disproves" creation. However a major point, many are missing, is that this is a just as large, if not greater, obsticle for the o so unquestioned evolution! by taking a look at the geologic time table ( which by the way is based on the circular reasoning of the layers are dated using the fossils they contain and the fossils dated by the layer they are found in) according to the table dinosaurs died out, well conveniently evolved just before the fact, millions of years ago. I understand that their are plenty of evidences of mumification and, more than likely we will find many more mummified dinosaurs, but it is ilogical to say that a dinosaur "millions of years old" can be preserved in such a condition and then be displayed in the same museum as a fossilised dinosaur skelaton and say "well this one was just in the most perfect conditions that it..." that it stayed nearly the same as it died "millions of years ago"! this is just a sad example of evolutionists recognizing a chink in their armor and distracting us from it by claiming it harms the creationist side. Much to the contrary! If i was an evolutionary professor I would be terrified! Also the only creationists I have encountered who believe that dinosaurs died in the flood are either immature Christians or are ignorant. evidence in the bible, Job 40:15-24, that dinosaurs lived after the flood and most of the informed short day bible scholars agree that the dinosaurs died out due to the tempature slowly rising due to the greenhouse effect after the water canopy fell. I hope this helps some disillusioned readers see the foolishness of what this artical is attempting to make people believe

BobRyan says

Sep 15th, 2008 at 12am
Even by atheist darwinist standards - the extremely fragile DNA molecule should not last beyond 100,000 years and soft tissue in any form hould not last beyond 2 million years. YET here we have "Dino mummy". Either we can "imagine" it to be a 65 Million years old "No matter what science says about tissues not surviving that long" OR we can admit the obvious -- these fossils are NOT millions of years old! Darwinists will likely be struggling with the "obvious" on this find for a while. Bob

Chris mankey says

Apr 16th, 2008 at 12am
"If you disagree, then prove it. Last I checked no human is 65 million years old and can cue us in on this phenomenon. Carbon dating is a tired arguement." Carbon dating is a tired argument? Clearly you know next to nothing about science! Carbon dating isn't used to date dinosaur fossils. They use other radioactive dating methods with element with longer half lives. And they date the rocks not the fossils them selves. Also several different methods are used with elements that decay at different rates, but they give the same ages. Wow, creationist are very dumb!

guy says

Apr 3rd, 2008 at 12am
Another scientific finding spuring a ridiculous history debate. Christians are inherently selfish. Their entire motivation for standing up for the "truth" of creationism is to get into heaven. They don't care if the people they are arguing with in this blog are "in their opinions" going to hell. The biggest problem they have is that they waste away their lives fighting frivolous bullshit battlers like this one, and in doing so alienate those who they are "according to them" supposed to save. The people mocking them are only responding to the bile and poison that the majority of fundamentalist christians are incuring upon themselves. And once again, they don't care. because they are selfish. Worse than the people they try to cleverly mock.

Mike says

Mar 26th, 2008 at 12am
I never condemned anyone for believing evolution. I'm just trying to present some "truth" in this discussion. Evolutionists come down on Creationists for believing the Word of God and the creation account. I find it interesting because evolutionists put their faith in text books. And we all know they are always changing.

Mike says

Mar 26th, 2008 at 12am
Check out this website Dave, one of many that may help you out in your investigations. It obviously dealing with creation but it has loads of good material to check out. www.answersingenesis.com

Brieal says

Mar 22nd, 2008 at 12am
So, just a question, being the naive child that I am, but why does this matter? If you want to ignore scientific research (or, likewise, Christian Doctrine), then why can't you without having someone else's beliefs shoved down your throat? You're all just saying the EXACT SAME THING (albeit in different contexts) to each other, and then getting strung-out over it. If any of you are the adults you allude to be, then you'll give up your whining and leave each other alone. Both sides of this argument are growing weak and stale. For the sake of just being NICE to another human being, why don't you all find another corner of the internet to mumble in. Thanks.

Dave says

Mar 22nd, 2008 at 12am
At the end of the day I guess people can believe what they want. I have a massive problem with people condemming me in God's name however. If I am to subscribe to christianity then I am to belive that God made me and therefore gave me my brain as well. Why would God punish me for using somethig that He gave me? Based on my own investigations (I'm nearly at the end of a science degree) and research along with the present thinking by the leading minds on this planet I accept the theory of evolution. It is my descision and I see no evidence to the contrary I cannot see how this is a sin from any angle. I am only choosing to follow what I belive to be right as are the christians whole follow creation teachings. How can any God that is meant to be loving take offence at that and punish me for eternity? However I still believe that my beliefs are different from those of creationists because I do not have faith in science I trust it based on repeated testings of it. If the theory of evolution is proved false for whatever reason I will change my ideas. That is the key point here, my beliefs are FLEXIBLE based on the most up to date evidence at any point in time. It is that that I personally belive makes my beliefs superior to creationists because they ignore any facts to the contrary. I know that rational argument will not convert any creationists I just really like debating with them because maybe someone somewhere will come up with a good enough counter-argument to make me have to think about it.

docwho says

Mar 21st, 2008 at 12am
But you must remember that time is a relative thing. It is most likely that the 7 days
The 7 days come from the Sumerian 7 Tablets of The Epic of Creation. On the 7th tablet, the Sumerians praised their god. Plagiarism so to speak.