Archive: Eyes, Ears, Clocks, and Cold Dinosaurs
February 2, 2024
These entries from February 2022 are still worth reading. Enjoy!
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Earth Arctic Is Not Like Enceladus
November 22, 2022
NASA commits its most common logical fallacy in a press release geared to titillate the public about astrobiology.
Baby Arctic Dinosaurs Challenge Narrative
June 25, 2021
Something is terribly wrong with a report that baby dinosaurs hatched and lived in frigid Arctic tundra for millions of years.
Recent Plants Found Under Greenland Ice
March 16, 2021
Plant materials in an ice core cannot be a million years old. They look like they were buried in the recent past.
Ice Age Bear Found Intact in Melting Permafrost
September 16, 2020
They say this bear, with soft tissue, organs, soft nose and all, died almost 40,000 years ago. Is that credible?
Claim of New Antifreeze Gene by Natural Selection Melts Under Analysis
February 25, 2019
A biochemist examines imaginative claims about natural selection creating a new gene.
Bacteria Rule the Earth
December 14, 2017
Bacteria are inescapable. They're everywhere. Fortunately, many of them are here for good.
Mammal Champs Strut Their (Unevolved) Stuff
November 21, 2016
Here's a showcase of very different mammals all deserving of the same thing: admiration. You don't do that by attributing them to evolution.
New Fossils, Old Stories
November 23, 2015
You can sing any words to the same tune, if you don't know any other tunes and don't care how well the syllables rhyme or fit.
Will the Dinosaur Paradigm Be Next to Fall?
September 29, 2015
"Cold dinosaur" fossils have paleontologists questioning everything they thought they knew about dinosaur physiology.
Elephants, Mammoths, and Terror: The Ivory Trade Crisis
August 28, 2015
Terror organizations are slaughtering elephants at alarming rates to sell the ivory in Asia and buy weapons. What to do?
Phenomenal Fossils
July 15, 2014
Recent fossil discoveries include some eye-openers and world records.
Arctic Camel Found
March 10, 2013
Fossils from a large species of camel living in Canada's high arctic contain soft tissue.
Intolerance Grows for Skeptics of Consensus Science in Spite of Data
September 26, 2012
If you question evolution or man-caused global warming, be prepared for a smear. If you are a Christian, be prepared for hate. But the skeptics may have the facts on their side.