Old Yeller and Dating Methods

In 2016, a mummified wolf pup named Zhùr was discovered in the permafrost in the Klondike goldfields near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.  

Researchers used DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating to determine that the specimen is around 57,000 years old … but is that really true?  David Coppedge (NASA, JPL, Cassini team) rightly questions this old earth fallacy (#OEF):

 

But how could its mother dig a den in permafrost?  If it was not permafrost at the time, how did this warm-blooded mammal become frozen so quickly, and stay frozen for 57,000 years?  It looks just like the other puppy from Siberia that they say was a third of this one’s age.  Is something wrong with the dating methods?

 

Carbon dating have been supported by tree ring data, but even that type of corroboration has limits.  Martha Joukowsky in A Complete Manual of Field Archeology stated that, "Since the dendrochronological sequence extends back only as far as about 5500 B.C., no way exists at present to check radiocarbon dates from 5500 to 10,000 B.C." [1]

 

Such excellent preservation of “Old Yeller” (Zhùr) for 50K+ years seems unreal on the face of it.  In comparison, consider the preservation of Egyptian mummies which are but a few thousand years old.  We have provided evidence that the Ice Age occurred within historical times in Is a Young Earth Possible?  We also make the argument that there was only one Ice Age in YES – Young Earth Science.

 

 

Note:

1) A Complete Manual of Field Archaeology - Tools and Techniques of Field Work for Archaeologists by Martha Joukowsky (Prentice-Hall, 1980), p. 448.

 

** graphic above from cell.com

 

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