The Daily Science Update for Friday was Stone Age Art Holds Hints of Language. The source article (from the Guardian) discusses the abstract symbols found next to cave art and in other places, and suggestions that they might have some kind of meaning.
Posts Tagged ‘Geology’
8 Jan
Moth Colouration
The DpSU for Thursday was called Fossil Moth Still Shows Its Colors. The subjects are 47 million year old moth fossils from the Messel Pit, for which the chitin nanostructure that causes their colour has (more-or-less) survived.
20 Dec
Beached Whales
The title of the DpSU for the 20th of December is Whales in the Desert? The topic is interesting in that I’ve already heard of this find in the context of creationism – it was discussed twice on TWIGO:CP, in TerryH fails geology forever and more briefly in Terry vs The Whale, and inspired a post on We Couldn’t Make This Up.
12 Nov
Snelling On The Ark, Part 2
This, then, is part 2 of my stream of consciousness review of Andrew A. Snelling’s article on AiG, Is the Wood Recently Found on Mt. Ararat from the Ark?
11 Nov
Snelling On The Ark, Part 1
It’s an odd DpSU today. It’s called Top Geologist Releases Data on Noah’s Ark Claim and has no author. It’s rather short: One of the top geologists in the creation science community recently released data and analysis of wood samples allegedly taken from a structure on Mt. Ararat last year. Dr. Andrew Snelling, Director of [...]
25 Oct
Ancient Art and Cognition
Today’s DpSU from Mr Thomas of the ICR is on the subject of the 100,000 year old South African paint lab, and is called Ancient Paint Workshop Challenges Human Evolutionary Story. Now, whatever makes him think that?
22 Aug
Erosion on a Biblical Scale
I interrupt what was looking to be a reasonably pleasant week (at least in these parts) to announce that the ICR has returned to the old creationist gambit of “why haven’t the continents eroded already?” I needn’t have bothered.
9 Aug
Unnatural Gas
Today’s amazing piece of investigative science reporting from the Institute for Creation Research (or, as I prefer to call them, their ‘Daily (pseudo)Science Updates’) is an attempt to convince the reader that natural gas doesn’t take millions of years to form. Let’s see if he can manage it…
25 Jul
Opals, What is it With Opals?
For some reason, creationists seem to like Opals. I’m not entirely sure why. One possible explanation is the Ken Ham is Australian, and so are opals. This is pretty weak, though. I don’t see many Creationists commenting on Kangaroo’s…
