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caffeine
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Message 56 of 136 (619219)
06-09-2011 8:11 AM
Reply to: Message 52 by Chuck77
06-09-2011 5:35 AM


Re: Genesis...
Chuck77 writes:
Oh, and there wasn't a lot of fan fare about it as you can guess as to why...nor is it even talked about.
Chuck77 writes:
There are a lot of articles on this. Simply search them for yourselves. I picked only one of them.
Aren't these statements a little bit contradictory. If there are many articles on the topic, it has indeed been talked about widely. It was reported in just about every popular science outlet there is, so I'd call that a fair amount of fanfare.
I had a look over on Scienceblogs, a collection of blogs from various scientists, and the topic's been dicussed widely there, with a search for Schweitzer AND "soft tissue" returning 102 articles. Follow up research was covered, including analysis of the protein structure to try and include the T-Rex proteins in the family tree of living organisms. It popped up exactly where you'd expect a dinosaur to lie, as the closest relative of birds.
More recently, incidentally, Schweitzer's team seems to have found proteins from another dinosaur - Brachylophosaurus
The scientific community isnt' exactly hiding this finding under a bushel.
Edited by caffeine, : No reason given.

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caffeine
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Message 61 of 136 (619235)
06-09-2011 9:57 AM
Reply to: Message 59 by Pressie
06-09-2011 8:51 AM


Being fair to "Jon Woodromappe"
Pressie writes:
John Woodmorappe refers to Jan Peczkis as a science educator in one of his ‘articles’. He didn’t tell anybody that he referred to himself. Nobody knows what his qualifications are. We just know that he is a ‘science educator’. He certainly is not a geologist. He just calls himself a ‘science educator’.
Jan Peczkis claims to have an MA in Geology from Northeastern Illinois University, and there are two citations on Jstor for someone of that name from the same university, both in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology:
Implications of Body-Mass Estimates for Dinosaurs
Jan Peczkis
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Feb. 15, 1995), pp. 520-533
Trends in the Description of Extinct Genera among Mammalian Orders
Jan Peczkis
Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 63, No. 6 (Nov., 1989), pp. 947-950
He's also written well over a thousand book reviews on Amazon.com, assuming there are no shenanigans involved here.
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Who he really is isn't so relevant here, though. The important point should be that "some person says radiometric dating is rubbish" is not a substantive argument. Let's hear some specific explanation of why it's so rubbish.

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