California State University Northridge (CSUN) has settled with its former employee, Mark Armitage, after he sued the University alleging it had fired him because of his religious beliefs, College Fix reports.

Armitage a graduate of Liberty University is a Christian. In 2010, he was hired by CSUN to manage and train students at its hi-tech microscope lab. He has written 30 articles involving his work.

In 2012, Armitage was part of a dig at Montana’s Hell Creek Formation where paleontologists have uncovered thousands of dinosaur bones. While working at the site, Armitage found a massive triceratops horn believed to have gone extinct 65 million years ago.

When Armitage brought that find back to his CSUN lab and examined it through a microscope, he discovered soft tissue inside the horn.

This was tissue that had not fossilized, and of course, instantly brought into question the evolutionary theory because how could a fossil that was 65 million years old still have soft tissue inside it.

Obviously, it couldn’t.

According to court documents, Armitage published two articles about his findings. The first published in American Laboratory magazine in November 2012 included an image of the soft tissue on its cover.

A second article was published in the peer-reviewed academic journal, Acta Histochemica, and it was a two weeks after this publication, that CSUN released Armitage citing a lack of funding.

In his lawsuit Armitage contended that he was fired because of his religious beliefs, as his findings and articles associated CSUN with creationism.

Oddly, Armitage’s articles had not mentioned anything about creation but only reported his findings and the facts.

Armitage said in the court documents that after his article was published a professor from the university came into his department and told Armitage, “We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department!”

While CSUN argued that he was fired over budgetary concerns, Armitage’s legal team uncovered a smoking gun that seriously questioned that defense. In a series of emails, between campus personnel, one person suggested they could remove Armitage by changing his position from part time, to full time.

CSUN settled with Armitage shortly after a judge ruled the case could go to court.

Armitage was represented in his legal challenge by Alan Reinach from the Church State Council, a California-based legal non profit. While CSUN did not admit any guilt in the case, according to Reinach it provided a six figure settlement.

“They certainly would not have paid that kind of money if they did not recognize that we had them dead to rights. The state doesn’t put large, six-figure settlement money out unless they are really concerned they are going to lose,” Reinach said.

Inside Higher Ed reported that the settlement was nearly $400,000.

In an interview with God Reports, Armitage said that he has been back to the Hell Creek formation twice since his firing and found soft tissue in dinosaur bones both times.

“Soft tissue in dinosaur bones destroys deep time,” Armitage said. “Dinosaur bones cannot be old if they’re full of soft tissue.”

Evolutionary world was shaken in 2005 when North Carolina State University Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer announced that she had found soft tissue, (blood, blood vessels and cartilage) inside a large T-Rex bone that had to be broken for transport. It had been discovered at Montana’s Hell Creek formation in 2004.

When she initially tried to publish her findings, it was rejected, with one academic journal telling Schweitzer her findings were impossible.

When Schweitzer’s work was eventually published, one paleontologist wrote a scathing review of her work, a review that he has since retracted.

Since then soft tissue has been found in dinosaur bones around the world:

• Researchers confirm original blood vessels in 8-million-year-old fossil: NCSU
• 75-million-year-old dinosaur blood and collagen discovered in fossil fragments: The Guardian
• Drawing the Wrong Conclusion: Squid Ink Cannot Last 150 Million Years

This begs the question with the millions of dinosaur bones being uncovered and analyzed over the last hundred years, how come they only found soft tissue in a dinosaur bone in 2005?

A Biblical perspective on what happened to dinosaurs: