Dinosaur Soft Tissue + DNA —

For example, a straightforward and plain reading of the Bible puts Creation at about 6,000 years ago with the global flood of Noah occurring approximately 1,500 years later. In this scenario, the rock layers containing dinosaur fossils as well as other petrified life forms was mostly formed as a result of this yearlong flood event. Which means that the dinosaur remains in question would date to the time of the flood—approximately 2,500 BC—and therefore would only be about 4,500 years old. But remember, some dinosaurs survived the flood on Noah’s ark and so could be even younger than this! And this Biblical age is perfectly consistent with the facts of science—the soft tissue discoveries and the presence of Carbon-14—but is devasting to the evolutionary millions-of-years scenario. Of course, secular scientists don’t accept these conclusions and as expected, they do their best to explain it away. But their proposed solutions don’t work. For example, regarding soft tissue they have attempted to come up with various ways that it could last 65 million years and beyond.[5] But even with the best preservation conditions such delicate biological structures could only last a small fraction of that time.[6],[7] And as far as the presence of Carbon-14 in dinosaur remains goes, they claim that the samples have been contaminated. In other words, they are saying that C-14 has somehow been added to the samples. But, as scientist Dr. Jonathan Sarfati points out, “Even if contamination were to blame, we should only expect contamination in the rare, isolated case. But in almost every single case where fossils are supposedly thought to be millions of years old, we find radiocarbon. Since radiocarbon in ancient bone is the norm, the ‘appeal to contamination’ amounts to special pleading. If almost every single case of ancient bone were contaminated, the radiocarbon method would be worthless as a radiometric technique. (Emphasis in original)”[8] Furthermore, Carbon-14 is also found in other ‘ancient’ things like diamonds.[9] And the thing about diamonds is that as the hardest substance on earth they are quite impervious to contamination.[10],[11],[12] So Carbon-14 remains a huge problem for secular scientists.

Hence, the scientific discoveries surrounding dinosaurs confirm that what the Bible tells us about them is true and accurate. The Bible continues to prove itself as trustworthy account of history.