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Ancient Wings
I began my previous post by speculating about keeping a pet dinosaur. It was only a short while after I posted it, however, before I realised that I already had done just that! When I lived in Australia I had a pet canary which, in a blaze of originality, I had christened Birdie. Despite his modest size, Birdie was as much of a dinosaur as any other bird alive today, for science now recognises no distinction. In fact, as far as scientific classification goes, there are no birds – just dinosaur
My Pet Dinosaur
Were I allowed by some chance of time and nature - and my tolerant wife - to keep a pet dinosaur, then this particular dinosaur would be high in the running for my choice. I have, however, no name to offer it, because science has not given it one. The reason for this is that it is known only by its tracks: not a single fossilized bone has been discovered which can be associated with these tracks.Such fossils are known as trace fossils, because they are the indirect traces which an organism has l
Disproving Evolution
A couple of evenings ago I overheard the remark in a video phone-in interview that a Fundamentalist Christian creationist with something of a reputation on YouTube was considering becoming a scientist, apparently so that he could disprove evolutionary theory, as it were, from the inside. I won't embarrass him by naming him here, but such an aspiration demonstrates only a lack of any grasp of the way in which scientific method actually functions. To explain:In science, there is no plan; you simpl
