Dr. John DeMassa: Dinosaurs, Deluge and Degradation
When: Friday, January 10, 2014, 07:00pm
Where: 2100 North Wadsworth Blvd Lakewood, CO
We have an exciting new speaker for the January 10, 2014 session. Dr. John M. DeMassa, organic chemist, will review the Mary Schweitzer T-Rex soft tissue discovery of 2005. The soft tissue found in the dinosaur femur baffled experts, who believed that soft tissue degraded rapidly after the death of an animal, and that no original protein and/or DNA fragments could be recovered beyond ca 100 kyr.
John DeMassa holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and a Masters of Divinity from Liberty University. He is a Founder and President of The New England School of Theology in Fairfield, CT. He and co-founder Dr. Ray Pennoyer have worked to bring evangelical scholarship to Connecticut in the form of classes, articles, and conferences on a variety of theological and apologetic subjects.
John preaches part time at a retirement home, and also works full time as an industrial chemist designing antioxidants. The preservation mechanism of the purportedly 68 million year old flexible soft tissue is at present unknown. Dr. John M. DeMassa will evaluate chemical clues of remnant proteins and offer a hypothesis regarding the final days of T-Rex as he explores, “Dinosaurs, Deluge and Degradation.â€
