Gary S. Hurd, "Dino Blood Redux" (2005)

"Talk Reason" --- Over a decade ago Mary Higby Schweitzer began her research career by announcing that she and professor Jack Horner had discovered evidence of blood residues in a Tyrannosaur rex femur. There followed many years of creationists' distortion of those findings which they presented as support for a young Earth (see G. Hurd, Dino Blood and the Young Earth). In April of this year, Schweitzer and Horner were again at the center of a media circus prompted by their announcement that this time they had discovered blood vessels and identifiable cells. The creationist reaction was immediate. Hurd reviews these new discoveries, their presentation in the popular media, and the sadly predictable creationist responses.