When you can’t convince unreason

Nathan at The Baliset Palimpsest lists some of Kent Hovind’s crazy beliefs in “When you can’t convince unreason.” The commenters support Nathan’s follow-up observation that with followers like that, who needs yes-men?

"The Simpsons" on evolution

This You-Tube video shows the U.S. evolution-creationism controversy in Lisa Simpson’s school.

Tyrannosaurus fed on Edmontosaurus

A feeding ground for Tyrannosaurus rex has been found. Evidence here shows that T. rex travelled in packs and hunted Edmontosaurus.

The new bone bed is near a suburb of Edmonton, Alberta, on Whitemud Creek.

The find suggests that not only did plant-eating dinosaurs travel in herds but the meat eaters did as well, says world renowned paleontologist Phil Currie, a science professor and head of the U of A team.

“These dinosaurs have more complex behaviour than we used to think that they had,” says Currie. “When we learned these plant-eating dinosaurs travelled in big herds, we started assuming tyrannosaurs probably had a good source of feed when they were following the herds. They would just pick off the weak animals. But now we found we had huge packs of tyrannosaurs as well and they were probably organized in such a way that they could move into the herd and chase out the food.”

[The University of Alberta team] have found what Currie describes as one of the richest beds of dinosaur bones he has seen. Because of the concentration of the bones and the way they were gnawed, the team believes it was a feeding ground for the carnivorous Daspletosaurus, a direct ancestor of T-Rex….

At the time, the area would have been a mud flat similar to the Mississippi Delta on the edge of an inland sea that covered much of southern Alberta….

The bed also helps fill in some of Alberta’s paleontological gaps. The fossil record for the Drumheller and Grande Prairie area date to 65 to 70 million years ago, and the Dinosaur Provincial Park area near Brooks dates to 75 million years ago.