What Bill Ludlow Fails to Understand

Here is his statement about Creationists:

It seems what creationists fail to understand is dinosaur bones are permineralized or at the very least, partially permineralized, and therefore they no longer qualify as "once living material."

What he fails to understand is, hey are not always all that permineralised.

Also, "partially permineralised" implies "partially not permineralised" and that does qualify as "once living material".

Here is his statement in context:

Creation Science Fiction™ : Putting To Rest The Myth That Dating Dinosaur Fossils With Carbon 14 Shows The Method is Flawed Or Dinosaurs Are Young
http://creationsciencefiction.com/can-we-use-carbon-14-dating-on-dinosaur-bones

(While the page has no date to it, the oldest dated posts on the blog are from November 29, 2018 and later).

Can Smithsonian spell it out for Ludlow?

In the course of testing a B. rex bone fragment further, Schweitzer asked her lab technician, Jennifer Wittmeyer, to put it in weak acid, which slowly dissolves bone, including fossilized bone—but not soft tissues. One Friday night in January 2004, Wittmeyer was in the lab as usual. She took out a fossil chip that had been in the acid for three days and put it under the microscope to take a picture. “[The chip] was curved so much, I couldn’t get it in focus,” Wittmeyer recalls. She used forceps to flatten it. “My forceps kind of sunk into it, made a little indentation and it curled back up. I was like, stop it!” Finally, through her irritation, she realized what she had: a fragment of dinosaur soft tissue left behind when the mineral bone around it had dissolved. Suddenly Schweitzer and Wittmeyer were dealing with something no one else had ever seen. For a couple of weeks, Wittmeyer said, it was like Christmas every day.

Read more: Dinosaur Shocker
By Helen Fields | Smithsonian Magazine | May 2006
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-shocker-115306469/

If there had just been permineralised bone, there would have been nothing left after that acid bath. Get it this time, Ludlow?

Wait, the article is a bit older than his blog, in fact a bit more than 12 years older.

Ludlow still lives in the times before Mary Schweitzer.

Now, Helen Fields accuses us of hijacking Mary Schweitzer's discovery, but with people like Ludlow doing the actual arguing against us, how can she blame us?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Benedict of Nursia
21.III.2019