Ken Ham Hopes To Prove Dinosaur Bones Are Only Thousands Of Years Old

One important point that needs to be considered concerning these "donated bones."  Once a fossil site is disturbed, it cannot be put back together.  In essence all vital information is destroyed, and a critical part of the story is lost.  So Ham et al are really only seeing half the story.

It appears that the Creation Museum’s Ken Ham hopes to use donated bones and his specially patented “observational science” to prove once and for all that dinosaurs were present on the Earth only a few thousand years ago — rather than over 65 million. Together with creation scientist Dr. David Menton, Ham says he soon hopes to publish findings from the study of the bones — hinting that what he thinks they’ll find will be world-changing.

At issue again is the mis-representation of Mary Schweitzer's work:

Soft tissue surviving in dinosaur bones isn’t an entirely new idea — according to Smithsonian Magazine, a Tyrannosaurus Rex bone with soft tissue still present was discovered a decade ago. Even then, young Earth creationists quickly hijacked the discovery as evidence that donosaur fossils were not millions of years old after all — but the scientists who are familiar with the study of these bones say that it shows, instead, a misunderstanding about how decay works.

Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, who discovered this first dinosaur soft tissue — more has been found in other fossilized bones since — says it’s upsetting that creationists like Ken Ham distort her work. She knows the fossil she was working with is 68 million years old.
 
How does she know this? In part because the fossil comes from the Hell Creek formation — one of the most extensively studied fossil excavation sites on Earth. The site has clearly defined strata, and the fossils there range from 65 million to 70 million years old.

What else is interesting and relevant about the Hell Creek site? Well, it happens to be where Ken Ham says his museum’s new fossils come from, as well.

It’s not clear whether Dr. David Menton and the Creation Museum staff have intentions to use any methods other than “taking pictures and looking at samples under [Menton’s] microscope” to determine the age of the bones, or whether finding soft tissue would be sufficient “evidence” to claim proof of a young Earth and co-existing humans and dinosaurs — but it is clear that Ken Ham hopes he’ll soon be using these bones to prove that entire fields of science are fabricated and flat-out wrong.

Ken Ham Hopes To Prove Dinosaur Bones Are Only Thousands Of Years Old