Scientist challenging dinosaur fossil aging - fired from post in the US Biological researcher at the State University of California, Mark Armitage, was fired from his post days after publishing a peer-reviewed paper online. The reason for this sad state of affairs was his discovery of soft fibrillar bone tissue from a supraorbital horn of Triceratops horridus found at the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, USA, and stating “This is the first report of sheets of soft tissue from Triceratops horn bearing layers of osteocytes, and extends the range and type of dinosaur specimens known to contain non-fossilized material in bone matrix.” The link to the paper is below; sciencedirect/science/article/pii/S0065128113000020 The bone of contention is that discoveries of soft tissues/proteins and DNA in dinosaur fossils in recent years have been attributed to be 65 million +years old, whereas Armitage challenges this assertion and concludes that his findings rather support the thousands of years old scenario, challenging the cherished Darwinian evolutionary theory. This discovery indicates that dinosaurs roamed the earth only thousands of years ago in the past rather than becoming extinct 60 million years ago as explained by his legal team. A member of his legal team said “it had become apparent that ‘diversity’ and ‘intellectual curiosity’ so often touted as hallmarks of a university education, do not apply to those with a religious point of view.”
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 06:58:17 +0000
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