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Another week, another Cosmos episode, and another ridiculous creationist reaction. This week the third Cosmos episode aired, focusing on the wonders of comets—such as Halley’s Comet, whose grand elliptical circumnavigation of the solar system parallels a human lifespan, as…
Photo Credit: Puno3000 via Compfight cc Last week on Fossil Friday, I gave you the partial jaw of a prancing little prey from the Barstovian. This specimen came from Nevada, and was actually originally (and incorrectly) identified as a Camelid. Many Fossil Friday…
These past few weeks on Fossil Friday, I have focused on bone crushers, biters, and scratchers—but have completely ignored the noble little animals that had their bones crushed...namely, food! So this week I'm balancing the scales by bringing you a herbivore—a dainty vegetarian…
In part 1, I was discussing a well-known but ill-sourced quotation from a “Dr. Etheridge, Fossilologist of the British Museum,” according to which, “Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by fact. This museum is full of…
In part 4 of my marathon post on “Searching for F. E. Dean,” I mentioned a letter published in the August 18, 1922, issue of the New Mexico weekly Fort Sumner Leader, by someone with the surname of Smith (the initials are unclear). Attacking the superintendent of the Fort Sumner schools…
In 1990, Carl Sagan led a group of scientists in drafting and signing an open letter urging action on the various environmental crises facing the world, including the threat of nuclear war and the reality of nuclear pollution, as well as climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain. The letter,…
Last Sunday the second episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new Cosmos series aired. From the perspective of the evolution-creationism controversy, it was a doozy. This episode, titled “Some of the Things That Molecules Do,” not only profligately used the dreaded “e-word” (evolution), but…
Last week on Fossil Friday, I challenged you with a real head-scratcher whose modern relatives are still chasing people around and cornering them in their homes! What was this fearsome creature? A prehistoric cat, Pseudaelurus stouti. This fossil was…
Last week on Fossil Friday, I diverted from my promise of bone-crushers to give you a sweet coral that couldn't crush a fly (or sea fly!). But I quickly heard howls from the peanut gallery, "We want more toothy creatures!" So this week we are back to the scratchers, crushers, biters…