Feather Denial

In which Brian flat out denies that Yutyrannus huali had feathers, against all contrary evidence.

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The Ultimate Question

When it comes to Creationism, especially young-Earth Creationism, the ultimate question is not “how many roads must a man walk down?” Nor is it “what do you get if you multiply six by nine?” Closer, however, is the title of the latest Daily Science Update from Mr Thomas, Why God Created Large, Sharp Teeth. The answer, whatever it is, seems unlikely to be “42″.

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Another of These Man-Dinosaur Ones

You may remember the DpSU from last week covered in The Extinction of the Megafauna, when Brian Thomas argued that humans lived with dinosaurs. Today – in Bird Fossils Offer Clues to Dinosaur Question – he tries the same thing.

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The Extinction of the Megafauna

It’s another quicky of a DpSU today. It’s called Did Humans Cause Dinosaur Extinctions? and argues that humans could have been the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs in the same way as we have recently killed off a subspecies of the Black Rhino. He says: This confirms what researchers generally observe about the [...]

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Coprolite

Just what did dinosaurs eat? This from the latest Daily (pseudo)Science Update at the ICR, Dinosaurs Ate Rice. One way researchers are finding out is by studying coprolites, or fossilized dinosaur dung. And as it turns out, some dinosaurs ate rice plants. But if flowering plants like rice did not evolve until millions of years [...]

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Diplodocus, And Other Non-Avian Dinosaurs

It must have been a month now since Brian Thomas last showed his ignorance of the process of Natural Selection. Today’s post is called Nature Article Inadvertently Confirms Dinosaur Design. Only in La-la land. The ‘nature article’ is in Nature News (not to be confused under any circumstances with NaturalNews) and is called Dinosaurs: Rise [...]

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“I Have A List”

Or the Institute for Creation Research’s Brian Thomas does, at least. In a recent blog post I mentioned that a possible reason for Mr Thomas’ recent absence is the creation of a list of Published Reports of Original Soft Tissue Fossils. Or something like that – as you will see, the list is a repository [...]

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The Utah ‘Dinosaur’ Petroglyph

In a recent post I mentioned in passing an old (ish) Brian Thomas article that he had then cited in support of some point or another. I called the article, Utah Dinosaur Petroglyph Disputed, a “hilarious fail of an article.” In clarification, it doesn’t fail at being an article – it’s got a heading and [...]

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Soft Tissues are Back!

I told you they were conflicted. A new article is up at that repository of creationist nonsense, the Institute for Creation Research. It’s called Peer Review Fails in Soft Tissue Study, and is a follow up from an earlier article – Latest Soft Tissue Study Skirts the Issues, which intriguingly they didn’t reference in this [...]

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Soft Tissues and Logical Fallacies

In 2005, Palaeontologists lead by Mary Higby Schweitzer revealed to the world (in a paper in Science, read it here) of their discovery of ‘soft tissue’ in a bone of the ‘B. Rex’ Tryannosaurus specimen (MOR 1125), which was dug up in a 68 million year old portion of the Hell Creek formation. The proteins [...]

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