Have you ever thought about the fact that dinosaur bones on display in paleontological museums around the world are actually not bones. Strictly speaking, these are stones, since bone tissue collapsed millions of years ago, leaving behind an organic sediment. Under the influence of chemical processes, this bone sediment has turned into a stone in the form of bones over the years.
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Dinosaur skeletons can be seen in many paleontological museums around the world. Thousands of people come, examine the bones and marvel at their antiquity. But as soon as they think about it for a minute, it becomes absolutely clear: in fact, there is not a single bone in the entire exposition of the museum!
All organic material that was once dinosaurs naturally decayed after they died millions of years ago. So what we can see in the museum is actually just stones. When an animal dies, most of its body decomposes rather quickly, leaving behind organic sediment that covers the bones. Under the influence of chemical processes in the environment, this sediment gradually turns into stone, which can retain the shape of bones for millions of years.
Unfortunately, petrification is too long and complicated to be widespread. Only a very small number of dinosaur skeletons are "lucky" to turn into rocks that people find in different parts of the world.
Dinobon is a completely new name in the jewelry world. It came to us from the English language. So it is customary to designate a special mineral formation, namely the mineralized bones of dinosaurs. After Brad Peet bought a ring with this stone, the demand for it far exceeded the supply, and items with dinosaur bones began to appear in the collections of almost all famous jewelry houses.
Fossilized dinosaur bones have become a very popular material for collectors and for the production of jewelry, thanks to the beautiful patterns, very high contrast and color saturation. There are such "pieces" of bones, which, with a thin cut and good polishing, give a "cobweb" pattern corresponding to the cellular structure, the "accuracy" of the pattern is literally microscopic, that is, it repeats the location and shape of cell membranes! Fossil bones arose as a result of saturation of the remains of large ancient lizards with minerals from aqueous solutions, which gradually filled the pores, which occurs over a long period of fossilization (English fossil - "fossil", "fossil") while maintaining the structure of the bone. Gemologists classify this kind of quartz as agate. The largest number of finds of dinobon suitable for jewelry making falls on the United States.
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But there is such an opinion:
Most people believe that fossilized bones (the most famous examples are dinosaur bones) must be very, very ancient, because they turned into stone after all!
It may seem to some that even millions of years will not be enough for the substances that make up the bone, gradually, molecule by molecule, to be replaced by rock-forming minerals due to natural processes.
However, this widely held view is misleading. A recently published book, co-authored by one of the world's experts in the study of dinosaur bones, notes one feature of great interest to creationists.
Let's start with what it says:
“Bones do not have to be 'turned to stone' to be fossilized. Usually most of the original bone material is still found in dinosaur fossils.”2
Okay, but even if the original bone is not replaced by rock-forming minerals, some dinosaur fossils are rock-hard. By making an incision on them, under a microscope, you can see that they have been carefully "super-mineralized". This means that rock minerals have been deposited in all the voids of the original bone. Doesn't the formation of these fossils prove long periods of time? Think again. The same authoritative work says:
“The length of time it takes for a bone to undergo complete supermineralization can vary considerably. If the soil water contains a lot of minerals, this process can happen very quickly. Modern bones, if they get into mineral springs, can undergo super-mineralization for several weeks."
Therefore, even the rock-hard and shiny fossilized dinosaur bone, which reveals under a microscope that all its cavities are filled with minerals, is not proof that it necessarily took millions of years to form.
It is undeniable that if the dinosaur bone actually underwent super-mineralization, it protected it from the natural processes that cause ordinary objects, such as bone, to decompose naturally. Therefore, the formation of mineralized bone could actually take from several weeks to several million years.
However, even if we imagine a situation in which the bone is not exposed to waters saturated with minerals, it would still be expected that over millions of years (even in the absence of the effect of bacteriological pathogens) the dinosaur bone, in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics, 3 should decay as a result of the disorderly movement of its molecules.
In the same book, an example is given of dinosaur bones found in the city of Alberta in Canada, shortly after their burial, were enclosed in a nodule of iron ore. The book says:
"These nodules did not give water access to bones, and they are essentially indistinguishable from modern bone."
This is an amazing discovery. Evolutionists are convinced that dinosaur bones are at least 65 million years old. However, people who perceive the book of Genesis as a real story might assume that the age of the bones of dinosaurs is no more than a few thousand years. Therefore, the existence of such non-mineralized bones, which have not yet decomposed, is ideally in line with our expectations.
We have previously told you about the unfossilized dinosaur bone, which still contains red blood cells and hemoglobin.5 We also wrote about "fresh dinosaur bones" found in Alaska.6 And now this data is confirmed by the words of the evolutionary expert who wrote this book:
“An even more surprising specimen was found on the northern coast of Alaska, where several thousand bones were practically not mineralized. These bones look and feel like the bones of an old cow. The bones found at this site were not reported to the general public for twenty years, as the bones were assumed to belong to a bison, not a dinosaur."
In conclusion, we note:
- Most of the fossilized dinosaur bones still contain the original bone material.
- Even if the bone underwent strong mineralization (petrified), these processes could take no more than a few weeks. According to the Creation / Flood scenario, it could take centuries to supermineralize bones, even under less ideal conditions.
- In cases where bones have not been protected by supermineralization, they are sometimes found in a state in which they appear as if they were several centuries old, rather than several million years old.
The biblical presentation of the true history of the world makes it obvious that the age of the fossils does not exceed several thousand years. And the evidence in the form of dinosaur bones is direct evidence of this.