More Mammoth Messing with DNA

A few weeks ago, we looked at "Woolly Mammoths, DNA, and the Genesis Flood." There was an article by a different organization that I almost deleted because I thought it was an echo of the one linked above. Nope. Different after all. Mammoths and other creatures are getting a great deal of attention lately.

Interesting genetic research was contaminated by secular assumptions of deep time. Mammoths are dated at tens of thousands of years, and dinosaurs at millions of years. Secular scientists assume DNA can last such a long time because they assume the animals are so old.

Mammoths, Wikimedia Commons / Honymand / (CC BY-SA 4.0)

There have been several interesting discoveries, including that mammoths and elephants both have twenty-eight pairs of chromosomes, showing their relationship to elephants. (Is anyone surprised?) A gene that controls hair and skin growth is not active in mammoths, but they have it, which may be why they were so shaggy. Scientists said the organic material exists because they were "freeze-dried and preserved in permafrost," but that overlooks important details about changing conditions and about biology. Biblical creationists do not need to contrive such irrational rescuing devices.

Woolly mammoths of the Ice Age were once found in huge numbers in Siberia, northern Europe, and North America.

Organic remains from “prehistoric” animals such as dinosaurs are incredibly significant finds, and so it is with woolly mammoths. For example, scientists found a huge mammoth skull (Mammuthus primigenius) sticking out of the water of a Siberian lake on the Yamal peninsula. Wool, soft tissues, and a coprolite (fossilized dung) were also found. The Live Science article said these organics were over 10,000 years old.

To continue reading, head on over to "More Woolly Mammoth DNA."