Age. It can be a fickle thing. Sometimes we can look at a person and guess their age, but other times we can be way off. If we count the rings on a tree, perhaps we can deduce its age. Carbon dating may be used to date bones in an ancient graveyard, and radiometric dating is thought to infer the age of rocks. But the real issue about age is accuracy. How do we know if the age we’re given is correct and true?

One way is through historical records. If you were there when a tree was planted, then you may know the age of the tree in your front yard. We know Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii on August 24 of 79 AD because Pliny the Younger was an eyewitness, and he wrote a letter to Tacitus, describing the event. But what about dinosaur fossils? Supposedly, no human has ever seen a dinosaur because they went extinct 65 million years ago. So how can we be certain of their age?

The following video, produced by Eric Hovind of Creation Today, calls into question many of the dating techniques we’ve learned about. Dinosaur fossils, for example, often employ radiometric dating techniques by analyzing the associated minerals and rocks. But the problem is, no one was there when the organism died, so there is no foolproof way to authenticate the date. Therefore, the dates are assumed to be correct (even if wrong).

There are many problems associated with dating techniques, starting with the fact that they’re based upon unprovable assumptions– like the amount of parent isotope present when the animal died, or contamination factors. Further, these dating techniques are predominantly incorrect when the true date is known. We know that Mount Saint Helens, for example, erupted in 1980, yet radiometric dating confirms the minerals to be 2.4 million years old. Obviously, this is an unreliable date, which is just one reason why we should be skeptical of dating techniques.

This video below provides abundant evidence that secular dating techniques are unreliable. Specifically, researchers are building upon discoveries of original dinosaur soft tissue and biological material to question the true age of dinosaurs. In this case they found blood, heme, osteocytes, bone, plasma, hemoglobin collagen and cells. Technically, none of this should exist if dinosaurs died out tens of millions of years ago. Biomaterial like this simply can’t last that long. If dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago like evolutionists contend, then there should be no biological material left. It should have disintegrated long ago.

Dr. Mary Schweitzer was the first to discover dinosaur soft tissue in a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in 1993. Many scientists rejected her work because it was well-known that such material couldn’t survive 68 million years. She was ridiculed. The scientific community simply couldn’t accept the implication that maybe the fossils weren’t as old as they believed.

The implication is clear: These dinosaurs are relatively young. Maybe they died in a global flood about 4,000 years ago, just as the Bible says. This is unacceptable for those who want to keep God out of science, but I’m a proponent of reality. If God really did create the heavens and earth in six days, then a recent creation is perfectly acceptable. And this explains why scientists can find soft tissue in dinosaur fossils and study it.

Nonetheless, evolutionists have been forced to concede the existence of biomaterial in dinosaur fossils. But they still refuse to accept that the fossils are young, which means they declare that this material CAN last many millions of years!

Evolutionists believe that the iron in the blood can preserve the biologic material. But this amounts to wishful thinking. They need a rescue agent, and they believe iron is the hero. But even with the best possible preservation, the biological material should have disintegrated after a million years.

The existence of biologic material is excellent evidence for a young earth. Scientists now believe this material can survive many millions of years, but it remains problematic for the simple reason that it cannot be substantiated. The existence of this material is evidence that these dinosaurs lived recently.

Check out the video to see how creation scientists are conducting cutting edge research in support of a young earth. Their next step is to obtain actual dinosaur DNA and other genetic material.