Fossils of 80 baleen whales were uncovered in a desert in Chile last week, catching the attention of the media around the world. It is a spectacular and mysterious find. Why did so many die? What buried them so quickly? Why are they so far inland?
I’ve checked out the reports and the geology of the [...]
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Bioturbation is the stirring of sediment by burrowing organisms such as worms, crabs and shellfish. Their feeding and burrowing disturbs the bedding and lamination fabric in the sediment, and with time destroys its structure.
Geologist Carl Froede reported, in Journal of Creation 23(3), experiments on bioturbation that illustrate how quickly the depositional structure of sediments can [...]
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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”.
In [...]
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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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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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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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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 [...]
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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