Let’s Investigate!
Forensic Science is an area of science which doesn’t get much attention when discussing creation.
Forensic Science is a term many of us have heard before. There are many shows and programs with detectives trying to solve crime scenes! We are familiar with much of the techniques, processes, and evidences they gather and use to solve crimes.
Scientists are sometimes like detectives! Did you know scientists are finding soft, non-fossilized, original tissues in dinosaur remains? Real dinosaur tissues: They are even finding blood clots!
After being intrigued by previous reports of dinosaur tissues, Mark Armitage, a Professor and Microscopist, decided he wanted to find his own dinosaur bones and attempt to extract any original tissues that might be present.
So, in 2012, he went on his own dinosaur bone hunt, along with some other folks, but he didn’t find what he was hoping to find, a big leg bone from a T-Rex, but what he did find has stunned the world. He found a very large Triceratops horn that was not fossilized. It was still so fresh and moist that it was difficult to extract it from the ground in one piece!
After getting it back to his lab, he started processing the horn and to his amazement he was able to peel a piece of collogen off the bone, even before he attempted to decalcify the bone. (Watch the Video that comes with this lesson on our website!)
In continuing to work with the horn, he began using a mild chemical to dissolve the bone material, a modern-day technique used in hospitals to decalcify bone samples.
He began finding more tissues which were part of the bone building tissues and they were filled with the cells that build bone, Osteocyte cells. This fact established that these tissues were original to the triceratops.
Triceratops horn Osteocyte Cells:
Forensic science is important to these discoveries because there has been much experimental work done using animal (and human cadavers) bodies demonstrating the decay processes of flesh which is in a natural environment and subjected to those processes. Forensic science experiments and observations at crime scenes has shown that flesh, bone, and blood does not last very long in those natural environments.
Why is this important? Time…time is of the essence of the stories that we are told about our world history, and the lies which are perpetuated about evolution.
Billions of years are not recorded in the Bible, just a short history of time, included in that history is a global catastrophic flood…what more can we learn?
The First Murder:
When Cain killed his brother Abel, this might be likened to forensic science work, because the blood cried out to God. God said to Cain: “…the voice of thy brother crieth unto me from the ground…” (Gen 4:10).
Now we know God is our supernatural Creator and He knows all things, He didn’t have to “hear” Abel’s blood, but we also know we can apply Biblical truth to the environment in which we live to discover things about it.
So, it seems logical to apply this crying out of the blood to other remains we dig up “from the ground”. The blood and soft tissues cry out!
Learning From Cain:
In the New Testament it tells us that Cain killed his brother for one reason: That his ways and works were evil, and he knew it. When he looked at his brother, it made him angry that Abel was righteous.
Scientists also, they know that they have a sin problem, and many times, they look at scientists who try to walk with God and show truthful evidence, it makes them very angry like Cain!
Why is that? Because they are not living righteously, and they know that. And instead of letting the evidence bring them to belief in God, they fight that God even exists at all! Because then if he did, they would need God’s forgiveness for their sins, and they, like Cain, are angry because they cannot do whatever they please, but rather, have to obey God and His Word. Rebellion causes crime. Remember that!
