Previously I have written about soft tissue in dinosaur bone here. Since I wrote that article additional soft tissue in fossils has been discovered especially by creation scientists. For example, microscopist Dr. Mark Armitage is a leader in this work and has formed a non-profit research organization called The Dinosaur Soft Tissue Institute or “DSTRI” for short.
As an expert microscopist Armitage is well qualified to do this research and as a devoted Christian understands the significance of his work for affirming the truth of God’s Word and refuting naturalistic philosophies. He and his team have found lots of stretchy organic material with osteocytes (bone cells) in Triceratops and Nanotyrannus dinosaur bones that were found in sediments in Montana.
More recently he has photographed nerves and blood clots in bones from Dimetrodon and Cacops animal bones in Oklahoma that are purported to be 290 million years old according to secularists. In all of this research the obvious take away is that these cells, nerves, and clots cannot possibly be millions of years old. Secular scientists have found soft tissues in fossils as well and have not a clue what kind of preservative process could save it in such a condition for these evolutionary time periods. On the other hand, the 4,500 years that the biblical timeline describes since the Global Flood of Genesis would nicely match to this evidence.
The reason that the evidence for blood clots is so interesting is that research in humans and other vertebrates indicates that blood clots seem to form throughout an individual’s body during drowning and other traumatic events that lead to death. So, if all of these blood clots in dinosaur bones are the result of drowning that could well match the assumption of death due to the Flood at the time of Noah.
DSTRI has all of their research papers and many of the photos available on their website here. Please check this information out if you have interest in the latest and greatest findings in the field of dinosaur soft tissue microscopy. Dr. Armitage and his crew are especially interested in working with people who have microscopy skills or have the desire to gain these skills in this exciting field of new discoveries. Even youngsters have found success in finding these soft tissues at DSTRI workshops.
J.D. Mitchell
