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A Reuters article out of Moscow, Russia, hit the front page of Yahoo! News this morning. The headline, "Baby Mommath Find Promises Breakthrough," is indeed true. (Visit the actual article from my linked title.) Here is a portion of the article:

The mammoth, a female who died at the age of six months, was named "Lyuba" after the wife of reindeer breeder and hunter Yuri Khudi who found her in Russia's Arctic Yamalo-Nenetsk region. She had been lying in the frozen ground for up to 40,000 years, said Tikhonov. The hunter initially thought the mammoth was a dead reindeer when he spotted parts of her body sticking out of damp snow. When he realized it was a mammoth, scientists were called in and transported the body to regional capital Salekhard, where she is now being kept in a special refrigerator.

Weighing 50 kg (110 lb), and measuring 85 centimeters high and 130 centimeters from trunk to tail, Lyuba is roughly the same size as a large dog. Tikhonov said the fact the mammoth was so remarkably well-preserved -- its shaggy coat was gone but otherwise it looked as though it had only recently died -- meant it was a potential treasure trove for scientists. "Such a unique skin condition protects all the internal organs from modern microbes and micro-organisms ... In terms of its future genetic, molecular and microbiological studies, this is just an unprecedented specimen."

The scientists begin with the presupposition that mammoths died out some 12,000 years ago, based, of course, on their evolutionary worldview. Thus they conclude that this mammoth, a near "perfect specimen," must be older than that. In fact, they say that it had been lying in the "frozen tundra" (not of Lambeau Field) for "up to 40,000 years." But then notice, to the surprise, of the investigating scientists, that the mammoth "looked as though it had only recently died." Guess what. In all likelihood, it probably did only recently die. Why would I say that?

Consider the preservation method of this animal. For a mammoth body to be this well-preserved, it must have died very recently, before decomposition set in or before scavengers found it; or it must have been buried rapidly by vast amounts of water in a worldwide flood; or it must have been frozen in the ice age that immediately followed the worldwide flood. All of the possibilities, which I firmly realize are just as presuppositional in nature as the views of the evolution-biased scientists examining this creature, lead to a "recent" life and death for this mammoth - 4500 years ago or less, as the Bible tells us.

What's the significance? The Bible is trustworthy in its account of the historical timeline. Praise God.