More evolutionary propaganda: new dinosaur discovered

Monday, 01 February 2010 19:39

Big Daddy: New Tyrannosaur Discovered

By Rachael Rettner

- LiveScience

T. rex's family tree just got one member larger. Scientists unearthed bones from a new dinosaur species, including an adult specimen and bones from a "teenager" that lived some 75 million years ago.

Universal Pictures

Tyrannosaurus rex stalks his hapless victims in the movie, "Land of the Lost." Researchers have just uncovered a new species of the lizard king.

Called Bistahieversor sealeyi, the dinosaur lived about 10 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex appeared on the scene. Even so, B. sealeyi belongs to the same dinosaur linage as the famous T. rex.

Fossils from Bistahieversor (pronounced: bistah-he-ee-versor) were discovered in New Mexico back in 1998, and after many years of studying the bones, the paleontologists just announced the findings as a new genus and species, which they detail in the January issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

To the untrained eye, Bistahieversor looks like most of its tyrannosaur relatives, but many subtle features, especially in its skull, set it apart.

"When we take all these features together, it's clear that we have something different than what's been seen before," said Thomas Carr, a professor at Carthage College in Wisconsin, who studies tyrannosaurs and co-authored the paper.

Rise of creationism at universities

Friday, 29 January 2010 14:17

Rise of creationism at universities

by Duncan Campbell - guardian.co.uk

Thanks to Mike Sigsworth for the link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/21/religion.highereducation

A growing number of science students on British campuses and in sixth form colleges are challenging the theory of evolution and arguing that Darwin was wrong. Some are being failed in university exams because they quote sayings from the Bible or Qur'an as scientific fact and at one sixth form college in London most biology students are now thought to be creationists.

Earlier this month Muslim medical students in London distributed leaflets that dismissed Darwin's theories as false. Evangelical Christian students are also increasingly vocal in challenging the notion of evolution.

In the United States there is growing pressure to teach creationism or "intelligent design" in science classes, despite legal rulings against it. Now similar trends in this country have prompted the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific academy, to confront the issue head on with a talk entitled Why Creationism is Wrong. The award-winning geneticist and author Steve Jones will deliver the lecture and challenge creationists, Christian and Islamic, to argue their case rationally at the society's event in April.

"There is an insidious and growing problem," said Professor Jones, of University College London. "It's a step back from rationality. They (the creationists) don't have a problem with science, they have a problem with argument. And irrationality is a very infectious disease as we see from the United States."

Professor David Read, vice-president and biological sciences secretary of the Royal Society, said that they felt it was essential to address the issue now: "We have asked Steve Jones to deliver his lecture on creationism and evolution because there continues to be controversy over how evolution and other aspects of science are taught in some UK schools, colleges and universities. Our education system should provide access to the knowledge and understanding gained through the scientific method of experiment and observation, such as the theory of evolution through natural selection, and should withstand attempts to withhold or misrepresent this knowledge in order to promote particular beliefs, religious or otherwise."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/21/religion.highereducation

Starlight and Time: Solving the Puzzle of a Distant Starlight in a Young Universe

Monday, 25 January 2010 16:19

ACG February Featured Speaker: Dr. Russell Humphreys

Critics of young earth creation like to use distant starlight as an argument against a young universe. They argue that galaxies are so far away, it would take light from their stars billions of years to get from there to here.

Many big bang supporters consider this to be one of the best arguments against the biblical timescale. But when we examine this argument more carefully, we will see that it does not work. The universe is unfathomably large but that does not mean that the universe must be billions of years old.

7 PM on Thursday, February 11, 2010, Dr. Russell Humphreys will provide a biblically based cosmology to help answer the question, can light travel from distant galaxies to earth in one ordinary day. Learn how practical physics using Einstein's relativity explains how light could be seen on Earth during Creation.

You won’t want to miss this phenomenal presentation by one of the leading creation scientists in the world today!

When: 7PM, Thursday, February 11, 2010

Where: Roswell St. Baptist Church, MARIETTA GA

For directions click here