scusses evidence of parasitic worms in dinosaur fossils. That may be fascinating to some, but what we find most interesting are some “clues” about how this dinosaur was buried:
… [a]n unusually well-preserved fossil …
… [t]ypically a carcass attracts multiple scavengers, and this one was largely undisturbed …
… the carcass was apparently buried before it had a chance to fall apart …
Pardon the flippancy, but what possibly could have caused this fossil to be buried so rapidly?
In other news, thirteen fossilized footprints have been discovered in northern Mexico. What do scientists say?
It is likely they were imprinted in mud and preserved by some rapid change in the environment, said Arturo Gonzalez … “[t]here must have been a natural phenomenon to rapidly cover them so they were not rubbed out and were perfectly preserved.”
If you’re an evolutionist saddened at the lack of extraterrestrial life discovered so far, take heart! NASA’s 1976 Viking missions to the red planet “may have missed signs of life” because the Viking landers’ tests were not “robust enough.”
Apparently, now that few believe there’s any life on Mars (see item 7 of the August 12 News to Note), evolutionists are backing up and saying, “Well … uh … maybe we just missed it!”
In this tragic article from the German magazine Der Spiegel, we read about the “crusade” against religious fundamentalism by the likes of atheist scientist Richard Dawkins of England.
An international team headed by John Lattanzio, Director of the Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics at Australia’s Monash University, announced in this week’s issue of Science that problems in the big bang model have been solved. The problems concerned the amount of helium-3 in the universe, which was previously considered too low for what the big bang model predicted. New data show that stars do not release helium-3 into space at the end of their lives due to a “core flash.”
What’s most interesting is that this flaw in the big bang model was barely reported to the public, and we certainly saw no flight from the theory. In other words, believers in the big bang have faith in the model even when empirical science shows discrepancies. This particular discrepancy may be resolved, but many more remain, such as the larger discrepancy pointed out in item 1 of the September 9 News to Note.
This faith in the big bang was shown by comments on the article in the PhysOrgForum. In a thread titled, “Saved? Never thought it was in jeopardy!” a user named “docdeal” writes, “I never doubted validity of Big Bang. Sure its [sic] great it is verified even further but your [sic] preaching to the choir on this one.”
The debate over Darwin is heating up in … Russia? That’s right, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. Maria Shraiber, a student in a St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) school, has filed a civil suit along with her father against the teaching of evolution in public schools. The suit alleges that “the teaching of Darwin’s theory in school as the only correct teaching violates [Shraiber’s] right of choosing her philosophy of life and insults her religious feelings.”
We are glad to hear that the message of the vacancy of evolution is alive and well in Russia (although we do not know Ms. Shraiber’s particular religious background or beliefs regarding creation). Answers in Genesis believes that students should learn about evolution, but not through indoctrinatory methods that present the model as scientific fact or restrict teachers from explaining other viewpoints. As for those interested in reading about our outreach to Russia, see “Proclaiming the Truth in Russia … from the Very First Verse.”
A bee trapped in amber is exciting evolutionists, who see the bee’s wasp-like features as a sign that wasps and bees evolved from a common ancestor. Evolutionists are also connecting the evolution of pollen-eating bees to the spread of angiosperms (flowering plants).
Of course, this bee—as can be seen in the photo in the article—is very obviously a bee, and has not changed all that much in an alleged 100 milli