DNA After Millions of Years?

How long does DNA last? Scientists experimented on some fossil bones to see how fast one kind of DNA, called mitochondrial DNA, decays. They discovered this DNA couldn’t last more than 650,000 years before it’s totally destroyed.

Well, scientists have reported finding DNA in some insects that were preserved in amber. Supposedly these insects died 30 million years ago. And yet we can still find their DNA even though it lasts far less than that!

This is powerful evidence for a young earth. Those insects aren’t that old because our earth was created by God just a few thousand years ago.

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