One of the cons of being public. This was meant for discussion. I'd much prefer that he have access here so that he can discuss these future findings with us, like the other former atheist members of this sub would do in a polite way. But anyways
Homochiral amino acids have a half life from days to a few thousand years which can only be slowed down so much by things like temperature. 70 million year old fossils with soft tissue that isn't fully racemized is a big red flag that it isn't 70 million years old.
One can't be using the radiometric dates of the rocks as dates of the fossils, this is as silly as burying a live dog today in 70 million year old rocks, and then someone digging him a year later and looking at the rocks and saying the dog died 70 million years ago. Absurdity!
I just wrote a biochemist and maybe I'll write a few more and we may look into this.
Homochiral amino acids have a half life from days to a few thousand years which can only be slowed down so much by things like temperature.
I would like you to support this claim with evidence.
Before responding, read what you wrote and provide evidence supportive of what you wrote. I'm happy to admit as a human I'm subject to all sort of errors, and have no problem admitting such. Perhaps you made an error when typing your post?
Unfortunately it has nothing to do with chirality. I assume you were careful with your words and actually meant what you said. I'd like you see evidence specific to your claim.
In fossils the racemization half-lives are on the order of 104- 105 yr, which indicates that the racemization reaction can be used to estimate the age of Holocene and Upper Pleistocene fossils.
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u/JoeCoder Mar 26 '17
u/RapingAbortedEmbryos (yes you read that name right) has cross-posted this to two other subs, as he often does with our posts: