Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tiktaalik Creationist Slap Down
My son and I spent a couple of hours last night at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, cleaning a rib of a triceratops affectionately known as Homer. Homer was discovered by a museum field crew at Hell Creek, Montana, and he or she (and, perhaps, more than one) is slowly being unpacked and cleaned.
We're volunteer prepators at the museum (which also houses Jane, a juvenile T-Rex or nano-T-Rex, depending upon whom you talk to), and in addition to handling bones, we hear about plans for the museum's annual Paleofest.
In 2008, the museum hopes to have a presentation on Tiktaalik. I'm particularly fascinated by this fossil, so I was happy to hear that. I was even happier to read this slap down of creationist David Menton (Answers in Genesis) by Martin Brazeau. Menton just doesn't like the implications Tiktaalik has for his close-minded view of the world, so he lies.
Short version: Menton gets the science wrong. And lies. And lies.
We're volunteer prepators at the museum (which also houses Jane, a juvenile T-Rex or nano-T-Rex, depending upon whom you talk to), and in addition to handling bones, we hear about plans for the museum's annual Paleofest.
In 2008, the museum hopes to have a presentation on Tiktaalik. I'm particularly fascinated by this fossil, so I was happy to hear that. I was even happier to read this slap down of creationist David Menton (Answers in Genesis) by Martin Brazeau. Menton just doesn't like the implications Tiktaalik has for his close-minded view of the world, so he lies.
Short version: Menton gets the science wrong. And lies. And lies.
