There's geovandalism - and then there's sheer f***ing insanity. Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world's premier site for the study of species from the Permian period (299-251...
Posted on January 28, 2008 3:33 PM • 8 Comments •
This NY Times account of the "First Conference in Creation Geology" should ring a few bells, because I blogged about it way back at the beginning of September. Take that, mainstream media. As I said at the time, the idea...
Posted on November 27, 2007 8:08 AM • 10 Comments •
In amongst the sound and fury which accompanied last week's fight to the death between Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy and Steve McIntyre's Climate Audit in the 2007 Weblog Awards (which was eventually declared a draw), I noticed an interesting attitude...
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Posted on November 14, 2007 12:05 PM • 4 Comments •
A few weeks ago, I was wondering about the attitudes to the teaching of evolution here in South Africa - it's now in the curriculum, but in a form which sounds disturbingly familiar to those of us who have encountered...
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Posted on October 26, 2007 7:40 AM • 7 Comments •
How could I forget the Earth's birthday? For a geologist, I'm fairly sure that's an unforgivable sin. Of course, October the 23rd only has geochronological significance if you believe the biblical calculations of Archbishop Ussher (or possibly one of his...
Posted on October 24, 2007 8:30 AM • 4 Comments •
Good news for those of use who believe that what little British schoolchildren get taught in science classes nowadays should actually vaguely resemble science - here's some choice quotes from some new guidelines (hat-tip to the Panda's Thumb) regarding the...
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Posted on October 1, 2007 12:40 PM • 4 Comments •
and they're not embarrassed about being a few billion.
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Posted on September 18, 2007 7:30 AM • 14 Comments •
Old but possibly still interesting thoughts on the 'meanie atheist' debate
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Posted on August 28, 2007 6:58 AM • 24 Comments •
I'm naturally as pleased as the next geologist (or biologist, or philosopher) to see a strong anti-ID statement from the UK government. But didn't we sort out this nonsense last year? Any updates from UK readers would be appreciated....
Posted on June 26, 2007 8:54 AM • 3 Comments •
Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg. 
