Inspire, Fall 1998

Mike Liston, Buddy Davis, Dan ,Specht. George Detwilet; John Whitmore The Alaskan Adventure I n July 1994,John Whitmore and four other creation scientists traveled to the North Slope ofAlaska in search offrozen, unfossilized dinosaur bones.By identifying biomolecules and organic remains in these bones,they plan to show that the dinosaur remains, as well as the Earth, are only thousands,not millions of years old. Their many adventures included fighting hypothermia while rafting on the Colville River, battling giant mosquitoes,rescuing a team memberfrom quicksand,and dodging rock falls. A book journaling their expedition, The GreatAlaskan Dinosaur Adventure:A Real Life Journey Through the Frozen Past, was published in August 1998 by Master Books.To order this book,contact the Cedarville College Bookstore at 937-766-7894. Thisjawbone ofa Lambeosaurus is thefirst ofits kind to befound thisfar north and is twice the size ofany dinosaur mandiblefound in Alaska. The Lambeosaurus is the largest ofseveral kinds ofduck-billed dinosaurs, with thisjawbone representing one approximately 40feet long. Battling exhaustion and hypothermia on thefinal day oftheir expedition, the.,ittet rescued by Eskimos who towed them to their rendezvous with the bush plane that would take them home. The explorers spent two days digging in the Liscomb Bone Bed, which is believed to hold bones mostlyfrom the Hadrosauridaefamily, or the duck-billed dinosaurs. The men dug through severalfeet ofcoal and shale tofind thefrozen bones, bothfossilized and unfossilized. Student Dan Castellini poses by Mushroom Rock in Kansas. Students learned that because the bottom ofthe structure is composed ofsofter rock, it weathers and erodes more quickly then the top, thusforming the "mushroom cap." In the Block Hills ofSouth Dakota, the gimp was able tofallow a geologist on his rounds in the liqmestate Gold Mine, the lar2est operational gold mine in North America. II• 7FALL'98