Fossils

Tas Walker on March 13th, 2010

It is two and a half months since the tetrapod tracks found in Poland have upturned the neat fish-to-tetrapod transition that has been so popular for promoting evolution. This morning, there was still no word on the Wikipedia entry for Panderichthys so I added the following to “Include tetrapod tracks found in Poland and implications”.
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Tas Walker on March 7th, 2010

The Australian media is portraying Richard Dawkins during his visit ‘down under’ as taking on the creationists.
Journalist Danika Armytage described it in her video report of 5 March 2010 like this:
“Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is in Sydney this weekend to promote his new book ‘The Greatest Show on Earth‘. It’s an uncompromising [...]

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Tas Walker on February 17th, 2010

When Climategate broke in November 2009 a catchy song appeared on Youtube called Hide the Decline. It mocked those scientists involved in the climate research who were exposed for manipulating scientific data. The song starts off:
Makin’ up data the old hard way
Fudgin’ the numbers day by day
Ignoring the snow and the cold and a downward [...]

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Tas Walker on February 7th, 2010

I saw this recent BBC report about scientists from China finding 3,000 dinosaur footprints in the Zhucheng area of eastern Shandong province.
I always enjoy these reports because they are describing evidence of Noah’s Flood but don’t realize it.
One puzzling feature is that the dinosaurs were running the same way. Why were they [...]

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Tas Walker on January 23rd, 2010

No mention on the Wikipedia entry for Panderichthys about the tetrapod footprints found in Poland that predate it by at least 15 million years (in the evolutionary paradigm, of course). Wiki currently says:
The evolution from fish to land dwelling tetrapods required many changes in anatomy and physiology, most importantly the legs and their supporting structure, [...]

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Tas Walker on January 23rd, 2010

I wondered here how long it would take for Wikipedia to to be edited to incorporate the latest find of tetrapod footprints in Poland, which have consigned fossils like Tiktaalik to an evolutionary dead end—fossils that have been paraded as evidence for the evolutionary fish-to-tetrapod transion.
Well, on 22 January 2010: I edited the Wikipedia entry [...]

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Tas Walker on January 19th, 2010

Wikipedia usually responds quickly to new information. When one of the Apostles, the limestone stacks in the ocean off southern Australia, collapsed a few years ago someone updated the Wiki entry within hours. However, there seems to be an eerie silence on Tiktaalik.
Richard Dawkins describes Tik-tik in his his latest book, The Greatest [...]

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Tas Walker on October 9th, 2009

I found this report by Russell Goldman on 7 October 2009 on the ABC news in the US incredibly interesting. I can’t remember a mainstream news channel reporting the creationist view on a major fossil find as part of its regular news.
Creationists Say Science and Bible Disprove ‘Ardi’ Fossil Is Evidence of [...]

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These beautiful fossils on sale at Arrowtown, New Zealand, were buried in Madagascar during the Zenithic phase of Noah’s Flood about 4,500 years ago. (Click image to enlarge.)
Well, that is not what the sign says (there are a few problems with that sign). Not many people would make the connection with Noah’s Flood because of [...]

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