Why not? The following is a direct quote of a conversation between the scientist that discovered soft tissue in Dinosaur fossils and her supervisor.
There is considerable research on this now so this isn't limited to being a "creationist" thing. Evolutionary scientists have lots of theories but all are defeated by the laws of thermodynamics and the sheer amount of time that they claim exists between dinosaurs and your footprints. They are hoping to discover some hidden elixir but so far it remains one of those miracles
This caused immense consternation. Schweitzer’s supervisor Jack Horner wrote:
‘When Mary was first working on this material, she called me up to say she had found osteocytes. I assumed she meant the spaces where the osteocytes would have been, which is what I suggested.
“No, Jack, actually we have the cells and they have filopodia
“Mary, the freaking creationists are just going to love you.”
“Jack, it’s your dinosaur.
”Make of it as you wish but stop mocking what you know nothing about.
