Dawkins vs creationism
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 … Continued
NAS President in damage control over climategate
BBC reports, 20 February 2010, the President of the US National Academy of Sciences saying that the recent controversies surrounding climate research have damaged the image of science as a whole. “There is some evidence that the distrust has spread,” … Continued
Do the Polish tetrapods need a catchy song like Tiktaalik?
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 … Continued
Five reasons why evolution is important?
The Huffington Post ran an article on Five Reasons Why Evolution Is Important. It’s by Steven Newton, Public Information Project Director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), and was run on 12 February to celebrate Charles Darwin’s 201st … Continued
Thousands of dinosaur footprints found in China
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 … Continued
Edits needed on Wikipedia entry for Panderichthys
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 … Continued
Wikipedia silent on Tiktaalik no longer
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 … Continued
Eerie silence on Tiktaalik’s demise
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 … Continued
How does biblical geology relate to the Geologic Column?
Mike Oard did a great analysis of this issue in the book he edited “The Geologic Column: Perspectives within Diluvial Geology”. Mike has kindly allowed me to post his article “The Geological Column is a general Flood order with many … Continued
ABC news reports creationist assessment of Ardi
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 … Continued