Creation Moment 6/26/2025 - 150 Million Years?

"Experts and educators have long assumed Archaeopteryx represents a transition from theropod dinosaurs to modern birds. All of this speculation depends on the fossils having been deposited many millions of years ago. But a newly described Chicago specimen—the fourteenth known Archaeopteryx—seems to have preserved original body tissues that would deflate its assumed old age and thus the evolutionary tales that require all those supposed years.

Publishing in Nature, a team led by the Chicago Field Museum’s associate curator of fossil reptiles, Jiangmai O’Connor, used UV light to distinguish differences between materials, and some of them looked like original biomaterials.

The Field Museum press release said that Archaeopteryx “lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period” and “is the fossil that proved Darwin right.” However, if the tissues they described could not last even one million years, then both Darwin and “150 million years” are wrong.

The study authors used the following phrases to describe the “soft tissues of the extremities:” “skin covering the right major digit of the hand is preserved,” showing a “clear outline of the skin along the major digit.” 

Further, “The plantar foot pads are partially preserved…visible under ultraviolet light.” 

This long-buried bird still has its “toe pads preserved.” Indeed, the images are stunning. They show clear color and texture differences between limestone matrix, bone, skin, and even the toe claws’ “keratinous sheath.”

Like horns and fingernails, claws have always had a bone at the core with keratin wrapped around and extending from it. However, keratin is a protein. Studies on protein decay have proven that chemicals relentlessly react with them. Amino acids that comprise proteins have inherent aspects that attract reactions with many nearby chemicals like water and oxygen.
Such biochemical decay studies show that even the toughest proteins cannot last one million years, assuming a constant and common temperature. This renders the fossil layer’s 150-million-year age assignment impossible.

Although this Nature paper did not chemically investigate what these tissues are made of—whether mineral replacement or what remains from original biochemicals—certain observations make a strong case that these are indeed the original bone, skin, and claw tissues. For one, each tissue type shows a different color. The bone looks off-white—like old bones do. The skin looks, well, skin-tone. And UV light revealed the claws’ “keratinous sheath” as slightly lighter and more yellow than the bone.

If minerals had replaced those original tissues with mere outlines of where those tissues had long before lain—as is the case with many other fossils—then how could three separate minerals each have selected its own tissue to perfectly replace?
Nor is it likely that such minerals could have replaced those tissues so completely without crystallizing at least a little bit beyond the body parts’ exact outlines. 

Q: Similarly, what minerals could so perfectly mimic original tissue colors?

The study authors concluded in part, “Data from the Chicago specimen reveal new information regarding the skeletal and soft tissue transformations associated with the pivotal transition from fully terrestrial to volant.” In other words, they claim that the data—including bird tissues—reveal something (but they don’t say what) about how some ancient land-walker transformed over millions of years into today’s flyers. Ironically, however, the very tissue that they folded into the mandatory evolutionary story deletes that same story by refuting its required long ages.

Q: So, was Archaeopteryx indeed the fossil that proved Darwin

right? 

A: According to their own analysis, Archaeopteryx was good at both flying and walking, “similar to pigeons and doves.” So, no. It’s just a dead bird.

The Genesis Flood paints a grim picture where this bird may have fallen from the sky from exhaustion or got swept it off its feet during the Flood. Limey mud soon hardened into the Solnhofen limestone that surrounded it and so many other fossils when it was buried only 4,500 or so years ago. 

No wonder it refutes evolution by looking like a fully formed bird that was entombed recently enough for some of its skin to have been preserved."

ICR

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased... Genesis 7:17

ARCHAEOLOGY: River of Death

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: Genesis 7:23

"Paleontologists in Alberta, Canada, have recently unearthed “a mass grave on a monumental scale.” The BBC story speaks of

"Thousands of dinosaurs [that] were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of utter devastation."

Now, a group of palaeontologists have come to Pipestone Creek -

appropriately nicknamed the “River of Death”.
The question and answer regarding the mass dinosaur death is found in the same sentence above. It was a massive flood (“river”) of death that killed them 4,500 years ago. Unfortunately, paleontologists will not accept this hypothesis and unnecessarily place the event many millions of years ago.

In Michael Benton’s paleontology text in the section on dinosaur extinction, he lists “three current models to explain the KPg [Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-T extinction] event.”

These are the impact hypothesis (i.e., the giant asteroid impact supposedly 66 million years ago), the volcanic hypothesis, and the multiple causes hypothesis. 

In the multiple causes hypothesis he mentions “evidence of numerous killing agencies, including impact, marine regression [sea level drop], volcanic activity, and changes in climate.” Alas, the most obvious “agency” is not mentioned: a worldwide deluge.

Indeed, on the same page of Benton’s text he states,

"Over the years, more than a hundred hypotheses have been presented for the extinction of the dinosaurs....From about 1920, dozens of hypotheses were put forward, ranging from the physiological (slipped discs, excessive hormone production, loss of their sex drive) to the ecological (competition with mammals, change in plant food), from the climatic (too hot, too cold, too wet) to the terrestrial catastrophic (vulcanism, magnetic reversal), from the topographic (marine regression, mountain building) to the extraterrestrial (sunspots, cometary impact)."

As one can see, any explanation is valid—no matter how outrageous—except the most obvious: a global flood. A section of the BBC article has a most telling title: “A Sudden Devastating Event.” Morelle and Francis state,

“We believe that this was a herd on a seasonal migration that got tangled up in some catastrophic event that effectively wiped out, if not the entire herd, then a good proportion of it,” Prof [Emily] Bamforth says. All the evidence suggests that this catastrophic event was a flash flood - perhaps a storm over the mountains that sent an unstoppable torrent of water towards the herd, ripping trees from

their roots and shifting boulders. Prof Bamforth says the Pachyrhinosaurus wouldn't have stood a chance. “These animals are not able to move very fast because of their sheer numbers, and they're very top heavy - and really not very good at swimming at all.” Rocks found at the site show the swirls of sediment from the fast-flowing water churning everything up. It’s as if the destruction is frozen in time as a wave in the stone."

To be fair, as one can see, they do mention a flood—a local flash flood.
One cannot help but be amazed that when viewing Pipestone Creek and other massive graveyards, the paleontological community is so blind that they are unwilling to consider the obvious Genesis Flood explanation for dinosaur fossils. 

This is a clear example of what is called confirmation bias—the propensity to interpret information or evidence in ways consistent with existing beliefs while rejecting others. 

Wearing such blinders has significantly influenced the interpretation of the fossil record for over a century and a half so that the worldwide sedimentary formations are only considered in a uniformitarian context. 

Virtually every dinosaur fossil ever found is ensconced in sedimentary or (rarely) volcanic sediments, indicating a sudden and catastrophic deposition. This is particularly true with rich Cretaceous dinosaur beds (e.g., the Lance and Ferris Formations in Wyoming and the Hell Creek Formation in Montana). 

Q: So why would paleontologists entertain bizarre extinction explanations such as slipped discs, sunspots, or magnetic reversals? A: Because if a scientist dismisses the global Flood out of hand, then anything goes when trying to explain the dinosaur demise. Anything.
The paleontologists are calling the Canadian mass grave the “River of Death,” but it should more accurately be called “The Flood of Death.” 

ICR

Creation Moment 6/6/2025 - Ponder the magnitude of this error

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, ... Exodus 20:11

"Study finds birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs (University of Alaska Fairbanks, 29 May 2025). Here’s another major upset to the timeline: modern-looking birds along dinosaurs in the Arctic, of

all places!
"Birds have existed for 150 million years,” said lead author Lauren Wilson, a doctoral student at Princeton University who earned her master’s degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “For half of the time they have existed, they have been nesting in the Arctic.”

The paper is the result of Wilson’s master’s thesis research at UAF. Using dozens of tiny fossilized bones and teeth from an Alaska excavation site, she and her colleagues identified multiple types of birds — diving birds that resembled loons, gull-like birds, and several kinds of birds similar to modern ducks and geese — that were breeding in the Arctic while dinosaurs roamed the same lands.

Reporter Sophia Quaglia at New Scientist put the surprise into her subtitle: “Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought.” 

Ponder the magnitude of this error. The artwork shows modern-looking extinct birds flying around the heads of dinosaurs at latitudes within the Arctic Circle. They were not evolving from dinosaurs with feathers on them. They were already flying birds.

Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous (Wilson et al., Science, 29 May 2025). This is the scientific paper for anyone wishing to examine the details of this surprising find.

If the trend continues, the Darwinians may have to admit the whole biosphere evolved “earlier than thought”— like, say, in six days at the beginning? “Perish the thought!” CEH

Creation Moment 6/5/2025 - Any apologies from the consensus for being so wrong?"

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; 1 Corinthians 1:27

"Dinosaurs could hold key to cancer discoveries (Anglia Ruskin University, 29 May 2025). Here is another major admission that original soft tissue in dinosaur bones is real (see 20 March 2025). This one contains a new escape hatch. Instead of admitting a colossal failure of deep time—instead of admitting that dinosaur bones are only thousands of years old, not millions—these evolutionists distract attention from their devastating error by saying that the soft tissue might provide clues for cancer research! Buried in the press release, though, is this admission of surprise:

"The researchers discovered red blood cell-like structures in a fossil

while studying a Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a duck-billed, plant eating “marsh lizard” that lived between 66-70 million years ago in the Hateg Basin in present-day Romania. The new study used Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) techniques to identify low-density structures resembling erythrocytes, or red blood cells, in the fossilised bone. The findings raise the possibility that soft tissue and cellular components are more commonly preserved in ancient remains than previously thought."

Q: Any apologies from the consensus for being so wrong?" 

CEH

Creation Moment 3/23/2025 - Dead Dinosaurs Blood

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians 3:19

"Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time — 20 years since a key discovery (Nature News and Views, 17 March 2025). 

The Darwin-loyal scientific community is adamant that dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago. ‘Old dead dinosaurs do not bleed,’ they insisted in effect. 

Every part of a dinosaur fossil should have 

long ago been replaced by minerals. 

After so much time, no original tissue could possibly have remained.

Then, in 2005, Dr Mary Schweitzer found stretchy blood vessels inside the femur of a T. rex. Watch the reaction of a Darwin Party reporter and a leading dinosaur paleontologist in this clip from the CBS program 60 Minutes that aired shortly after the discovery was published.

Dr Schweitzer’s discovery was not the first. Other reports of dinosaur soft tissue had been published earlier, but hers was the one that made the biggest media splash. 

Since 2005, numerous other reports have been published. Dr Brian Thomas at ICR keeps a list, now with over 100 entries. 

CEH has been sharing many reports of dinosaur soft tissue since 2005. 

But the Darwinist Deep Time consensus, intent on refuting the soft tissue claims, has tried every possible angle to show that dead dinosaurs do not bleed. They have claimed contamination. They have alleged that biofilms in the bone mimic original dinosaur tissue. They have imagined weird chemistry: anything but believe that that is real, original dinosaur soft tissue. They have run out of options.

----Now, the leading scientific journal is admitting, 20 years late, that dead dinosaurs do bleed.

"Although there had been a number of reports of soft tissues and biomolecular fragments extracted from fossils from the Mesozoic era (252 million to 65 million years ago) and Palaeozoic era (538 million to 252 million years ago), it was a landmark paper published in Science in 2005 by Mary Schweitzer and colleagues that prompted palaeontologists, chemists, geologists, astrobiologists and evolutionary biologists to question previous assumptions about the limitations of the fossil record."

That Nature would “question previous assumptions” on this subject represents the turning of a corner in the history of science. 

Here are some of the admissions author Jasmina Wiemann makes in this article:

*The proteins in the fossil are original, primordial tissue.
“Surprisingly,” this includes “flexible, pliable, and translucent” organic cellular and vascular structures in a fibrous meshwork in tyrannosaur and hadrosaur dinosaur bones.
*The “reported preservation of biomolecules directly contradicted existing decay models.” In other words, the consensus was wrong.
The material includes “remarkable preservation down to the subcellular level” of original tissue.
*The material includes “structures similar to bone cells (osteocytes), blood vessels with surface marks resembling junctions between endothelial cells and containing possible cell nuclei, and patches of fibrous extracellular matrix.”

Schweitzer’s discovery compares well with tissues from a modern ostrich bone, including the response of antibodies to the material.
The soft tissue “may retain some of their original flexibility, elasticity, and resilience”. 

What Schweitzer showed on 60 minutes, eliciting a gasp from Lesley Stahl, was therefore not a trick.
Parts of the “dinosaur protein 3D (quaternary) structure were still intact, able to bind to antibodies and similar in sequence to related proteins in modern birds.”

The reaction? “This 2005 paper and follow-up investigations were met with both excitement and scepticism across the sciences,” Wiemann writes. 

They didn’t want to believe it. 

They couldn’t imagine it. 

It seemed impossible.

"Biochemists discussed whether protein fragments and their 3D structures could survive over such a long period of time, especially when they had been exposed to temperatures above 40 °C in the Hell Creek Formation that would be expected to cause protein degradation."

It was easier to just ignore this evidence.

Dead dinosaurs do not bleed, everyone knows, but dinosaurs dead for 65 to 252 million years should not even have any soft tissue evidence left (blood or blood vessels) to show that they were capable of bleeding when alive." 

CEH

IN the NEWS - That Dino Toeprint

Where is the wise? ...hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1 Corinthians 1:20

"A researcher on the UK’s Isle of Wight was searching the beach for fossilized bones when he spotted something odd—a “big purple toe” sticking out from where storms had washed away some shingle, exposing the rock underneath. The “toe” was part of a nearly three-foot-wide footprint from an Iguanodon, a dinosaur that could reach lengths of 36 feet.

Now, the fossil guide and paleontologist who found the footprint claims it’s 130 million years old. So they think for over 100 million years that footprint has been sitting, hidden beneath layers of shingle, waiting for a storm to expose it. 

Q: And what happens next? 

A: Well, the man who discovered it says the footprint will wash away quickly because of erosion from the tides and the weather. In a matter of a few months, the footprint will have vanished.

**Stop and think about that for a moment: the footprint was supposedly left behind by a dinosaur on the move over 100 million years ago—an unfathomable amount of time. And we are to believe that somehow that footprint was buried, survived all the supposed geological activity and the weathering of its rock encasement for over a hundred million years, and then happened to be exposed during our lifetime—only to disappear a few months later. 

That story strains credulity! 

And, in the evolutionary worldview, it’s happened over and over and over again!" 

AIG

Creation Moment 2/8/2025 - Sonic Hedgehog (SHH)

"Evolutionists have long claimed that bird feathers evolved from reptile scales. They have even been trying to show for decades that scales could turn into feathers today. 

And in 2023, it continues with Michel Milinkovitch, Full Professor in the Department of Genetics & Evolution at the University of Geneva (Switzerland).

He claims that “an evolutionary leap—from scales to feathers” requires only a temporary change in the expression of a single gene, called sonic hedgehog (SHH).

The goal of the study was to better understand the signalling

pathways involved in the development of chicken embryos. These pathways are incredibly complex and function like computer programs controlling the development of the embryo. One of these pathways—called the sonic hedgehog pathway (Shh)—controls where different types of skin appendages (scales, flight feathers, down feathers, nails, etc.) form. This pathway is also important in other aspects of embryonic development, such as the formation of the neural tube (which later becomes the brain and spinal cord).

The study injected a substance called SAG, which activates the Shh pathway, into an 11-day-old chicken embryo. This disrupted the normally-precisely-controlled expression levels of the Shh pathway. As a result, feathers formed on the chicken embryo’s feet, which normally only have scales.

It is important to note that chickens already have the genetic instructions on how to form both scales and feathers. 

In the chicken embryo of the study, cells in the feet that would normally follow the instructions on how to make scales followed instead the instructions on how to make feathers.

If the chicken embryo did not have the feather-making instructions, disrupting the Shh pathways would not result in the formation of feathers. 

The same is true for dinosaurs. Dinosaurs would only be able to form feathers if they already had the genetic instructions on how to do so.

Rather than supporting evolution, the results of this study show the brilliance of the Creator who designed the sophisticated programs that control chicken embryonic development.

Nothing new under the skeptical sun?
(What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV)
Some decades ago, the claim was made in anticreationist literature that the supposed evolutionary change from reptile scales to bird feathers was not only possible, but a rather simple matter. The hands-down proof? Embryo experiments had shown that a simple chemical (vitamin A) was enough to ‘transform scales into feathers’ However, as here, the experiment was in chicken embryos, which obviously already have the information for producing chicken feathers! " 

CMI

ARCHAEOLOGY: Italian Dinosaur Graveyard -- 3 Possibilities

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. Genesis 7:22

"Numerous dinosaur graveyards are found in sedimentary rocks. 

A recent report of a ‘herd’ of 11 duckbilled dinosaurs from a graveyard in Italy indicates how secular interpretations change with time.
Most of the dinosaur skeletons were nearly whole with the bones together. 

1) Earlier researchers had interpreted the find as follows:

The dinosaurs lived on an island, at a time when Europe was a series of islands.
They were dwarfed (a common outcome for island-dwelling creatures).
They lived 67 million years ago.
The 10 metres of thin carbonate layers in which they were found were laid down over 10,000 years.

2) But a newer narrative, based in part on one of the same dating techniques as the earlier research, claimed that:

These dinosaurs did not live on an island.
They were not dwarfed.
They lived 81 million years ago.
The carbonate layers took about 2,000 years to form.
This highlights the strong role of preconceived ideas in such interpretations.

3) Burial in the Genesis Flood remains the better solution, especially since the dinosaurs throughout the entire 10 metres of thin carbonate layers were all of the same species. 

Q: Why would individuals of the same species be buried in the same location repeatedly during a period of over 2,000 years? 

Clearly it did not take that long.
Moreover, the excellent state of preservation for each of the dinosaurs means the thin beds were deposited rapidly, as expected in the Flood." 

CMI

ARCHAEOLOGY: Hong Kong "Surprise"

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. Genesis 7:22

"The recent discovery of the first dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong came as a surprise to evolutionary paleontologists. It was totally

unexpected since most of the rocks in Hong Kong are volcanic in origin. And volcanic rocks usually destroy bones, not preserve them.
“It’s shocking, because I never thought there would be dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong,” said Chong Got while looking at the new dinosaur bones on display at Hong Kong’s Heritage Discovery Center.
Michael Pittman, a dinosaur paleobiologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said,

"Hong Kong is famous for being a built-up landscape, but half of it is country park. In the countryside areas, most of what you see are dinosaur-era rocks, but it’s volcanic rocks—and they are bad places to find fossils, because fossils just melt."

Conventional scientists believe the bones were originally buried in sand and gravel, became exposed due to a flood, and then were transported and reburied in their present location.
But Flood geologists are not surprised by this discovery. 

Recall how surprised conventional paleontologists were when the first discovery of dinosaurs was announced in Ireland in 2021. Again, there weren’t supposed to be dinosaurs there either since they were found in ocean-derived sediments mixed with marine fossils. However, dinosaurs in marine rocks seems to be a global phenomenon.
The common thread in all these dinosaur discoveries is water deposition. 

Most, if not all, dinosaurs are found in sedimentary rocks laid down by water at similar levels across the globe, including China. And the best source of water to explain these worldwide occurrences is the global Flood described in Genesis. 

--These so-called Cretaceous rocks at Hong Kong were deposited as the Flood water was approaching its peak level, likely close to Day 150 of the Flood. 

--Dinosaurs became entombed in mud and sand as their entire ecosystem was being destroyed by the advancing waves. At that point, a lot of volcanic activity was occurring across the world, too.

This global Flood interpretation also provides the “flood” needed to transport and bury the bones at Port Island, Hong Kong.

The Genesis Flood provides the best explanation for finding dinosaurs buried at about the same level and in the particular types of rocks across all of the continents. 

Only those who don’t accept the Bible as literal history are surprised." 

ICR

ARCHAEOLOGY: Scotty

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. Genesis 7:10

"A Canadian research team found a vast network of fossilized blood vessels in Scotty, the well-known largest Tyrannosaurus rex fossil. They were found serendipitously while creating an intricate, 3-D model of the dinosaur fossil.

Commenting on the find, Ottawa paleontologist Jordan Mallon said, “For centuries, it’s been thought that there’s effectively no trace of biological tissue in a fossil—that there shouldn’t be”.

Such finds, while rare, are consistent with animals being rapidly fossilized during the Noahic Flood. 

There are other cases where, unlike here, the actual organic tissues and proteins themselves are still present. Such finds make an overwhelming case against evolution’s millions of years." 

CMI

ARCHAEOLOGY: Roaming Pre-Flood Brazil

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:12

"A new genus and species of silesaurid being named Gondwanax

paraisensis has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in Southern Brazil. Most authors agree that silesaurids are the sister-group to Dinosauria, forming the clade Silesauridae. 

The newly-discovered silesaurid species lived in what is now Brazil. The animal’s skeletal remains were recovered from the Santa Maria Formation in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil." 

SciNews

ARCHAEOLOGY: Separated by the Flood and Busted apart earth?

.... the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11

"In a remarkable discovery that spans millennia and continents, an

international team of researchers has uncovered over 260 matching dinosaur footprints in what is now Brazil and Cameroon.
These footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous period, offer an intriguing glimpse into an era when dinosaurs thrived on a vast supercontinent called Gondwana." 

Earth

ARCHAEOLOGY: Intact Dinosaur guts and face

First, guts and facial skin would not last intact 80,000,000 years, or even a million for that matter,
Second, could the reason be that most of their bones are found "jumbled up" be from And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:12

"In 2011, archaeologists uncovered one of the most - if not the most - pristine dinosaur fossils yet: a near-whole ankylosaur, complete

with its jagged spikes, most of its limbs, armor coating, and some of its guts and stomach contents. The most amazing detail, though? Its uncannily preserved face and skin.
These ones remained in their natural spots, however, and Brown measured all 172 of them.
“Many armored dinosaur skeletons are preserved disarticulated, meaning their bones are all jumbled up,” Brown told Ars. “Having the osteoderms preserved in life position in this specimen, and other specimens, can give us clues as to how to reconstruct those specimens where the position of the armor is less clear.” OrganicallyHuman

Creation Moment 5/27/2024 - Peering Through Darwinian Lens at Bergmann’s Rule

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind. 

Genesis 1:29

"A recent study of dinosaur sizes claims to break Bergmann’s rule. Bergmann’s rule was named after biologist Carl Bergmann, who in 1847 noticed that warm-blooded animals tended to be larger in cold climates compared to the same animal in a warm climate. Larger body mass tends to help an animal retain more heat, helping animals survive in the cold.

“The fossil record provides a window into completely different ecosystems and climate conditions, allowing us to assess the applicability of these ecological rules in a whole new way,” said Jacob Gardner, a co-author of the new paper.

Led by scientists from the University of Alaska, the team studied 339 dinosaurs and 62 fossil mammals, placing them at perceived paleolatitudes and under assumed climates at the time of burial. Some of the dinosaur fossils studied were found in rocks in northernmost Alaska, in contrast to an earlier study that claimed they lived near the North Pole (about 80°–85° north latitude). 

Publishing in Nature Communications, the evolutionary scientists found no compelling evidence to suggest dinosaurs and fossil mammals followed Bergmann’s rule. 

However, the group also studied extant birds and mammals. Here, they found climatic temperatures did indeed have a small effect on body size, following Bergmann’s rule as expected.

Q: Is this new study sufficient grounds to throw out a 150-year-old biologic rule like the study’s scientists suggest? 

A: The answer is no because their results are based on faulty assumptions, making it unlikely they conducted a valid test. 

They make at least three unverifiable assumptions:
1. The science team assumes there was no global Flood. Conventional scientists disregard the historical accuracy of the book of Genesis and any reference to a catastrophic global Flood. It was the Flood that buried the dinosaurs and mammals outside the Ark, possibly moving them from their original locations.
2. They assume dinosaurs were warm-blooded. There are a lot of published reports that indicate dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Cold-blooded dinosaurs likely could not have thrived in extreme cold climates or north of the Arctic Circle as claimed.
3. They assume dinosaurs and mammals lived in high latitudes millions of years ago and were found as fossils near where they lived. Dinosaurs found in supposedly polar climates have baffled conventional paleontologists due to the cold conditions they would have faced and the long periods of darkness. Conventional reconstructions place the Alaskan dinosaurs in about 120 days of total darkness each year, making it difficult for any dinosaur to survive.

In contrast, ICR’s Column Project team has mapped out the

megasequences and sedimentary rocks across multiple continents, using actual rock data to reconstruct the pre-Flood land masses and their environments. It resulted in a pre-Flood world that resembled Pangaea and was centered at the equator. In fact, nearly all land was at latitudes of less than 45° north or south of the equator.
Our reconstruction places the dinosaurs in Alaska at about 35°–40° north in the pre-Flood world—not at 80°–85° where researchers placed them. This provides a much more moderate climate where dinosaurs could have thrived.

Because dinosaurs were most likely cold-blooded and never lived at extreme northern latitudes, the evolutionary scientists failed to properly test Bergmann’s rule. Their assumed paleotemperatures are simply erroneous assumptions, invalidating their findings. 

Most of the pre-Flood world was likely warm and tropical to subtropical based on the fossils we find globally. 

This is why they found no correlation of size to paleotemperature in dinosaurs or mammals. The temperature likely didn’t vary enough to show any body size effect until after the Flood during the Ice Age.
Making poor assumptions leads to poor results." 

ICR

Creation Moment 2/29/2024 - Dinosaur skin shows no feathers

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind.... 

Genesis 1:24

"A dinosaur fossil with “incredibly well-preserved skin” was found in Patagonia in 1984. However, the fossil wasn’t properly studied at first. It has only recently been fully analyzed by scientists.

The dinosaur has been identified as a horned abelisaurid (Carnotaurus sastrei). 

The scientists found amazing detail of scales, wrinkles, and horny bumps covering nearly every part of the predator. A recent news article on the fossil find repeated the common assertion that many dinosaurs had been feathered. And yet, the writer then admitted that “not anywhere is there even a hint of a feather” on the abelisaurid fossil. She went on to state that large, meat-eating dinosaurs such as T. Rex and the horned abelisaurid “really did seem to have scaly, lizard-like skin.”

Many secularist scientists are keen to portray dinosaurs as having been feathered, as it lends support to the fanciful idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

That’s not to say that God couldn’t have created some dinosaurs with feathers. If that were so, it wouldn’t detract in any way from Biblical truth. But despite many claims for feathered dinosaurs, the evidence is sketchy at best." 

CMI

Creation Moment 3/9/2021 - Evolutionist's Mainstreaming Fiction in Artwork

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind...  

Genesis 1:24

"The recent discovery of a tiny tyrannosaur jaw bone fragment and a claw has some scientists again pushing dinosaurs as birds. 

Q: But is there any evidence that T. rex had feathers, as so often is portrayed, let alone as young hatchlings?

A group of paleontologists, led by Gregory Funston from the University of Edinburgh, have identified the first embryonic bones from a tyrannosaur, a tiny jaw fragment and a claw. The science team wrote:

An embryonic dentary (cf. Daspletosaurus) from the Two

Medicine Formation of Montana, measuring just 1.2 in long, already exhibits distinctive tyrannosaurine characters like a “chin” and a deep Meckelian groove, and reveals the earliest stages of tooth development. When considered together with a remarkably large embryonic ungual [claw] from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, minimum hatchling size of tyrannosaurids can be roughly estimated.

Although no eggs or shell fragments have ever been found for tyrannosaurs, the team used the fossil bones to estimate that tyrannosaurs likely had eggs about 17 inches long, making them some of the largest eggs of any dinosaur discovered thus far. The distinctive enlarged or pronounced chin was one of the key features in the tyrannosaur designation.

For the past few decades, evolutionary scientists have claimed that dinosaurs evolved into birds, and some now declare that dinosaurs are birds. Even the artwork showing feathers on baby dinosaurs is becoming mainstream.

Q: But did the new discovery of a tiny jaw bone and a claw demonstrate that young T. rex hatchlings were covered in feathers, as artist Julius Csotonyi portrayed them? 

Q: Or is this just a case of wishful thinking?

A: There is a strong disconnect between birds and dinosaurs. Dinosaurs had brains that looked more like an alligator than a bird, they walked balanced on their hips—unlike birds—and there is no indisputable evidence that any dinosaur had feathers. In fact, there is a great amount of evidence that dinosaurs were cold-blooded unlike birds.
Unfortunately, Funston and his colleagues found no skin imprint associated with the juvenile discoveries. But there have been skin imprints of other embryonic dinosaurs showing definitive scaly, reptilian-style skin. These were sauropod dinosaurs, not theropods like T. rex. 

Q: So, is it reasonable to conclude tyrannosaur babies had feathers?
A: The answer is a resounding no. The confirmation came in 2017 when Phil Bell and an international team of paleontologists showed conclusively that all tyrannosaurs, including T. rex, had scaly skin with no hint of feathers whatsoever.

God made birds on Day 5 of the creation week and the dinosaurs on Day 6. They are separate types of animals altogether. They did not evolve one into the other as evolutionists claim. Artwork of young tyrannosaurs with feathers is mere fiction." ICR