A brutal dinosaur who isn’t me

For posting this link, I’ll be criticized as an enemy of science who always tries to tear it down and to weaken public confidence in science and in scientists.  But that charge is no more true of me for posting the link to the article than it is true of the Ph.D. astrophysicist who wrote the article in the first place:

“Could All Our Scientific Knowledge Come Tumbling Down Like A House Of Cards?”

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Yet another item about the background to that remarkable image of the black hole located at the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87):

“To undermine Katherine Bouman’s role in the black hole photo, trolls held up a white man as the real hero — until he fought back”

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In other distant-astronomical news:

“A new super-Earth may orbit the star next door: Subtle shifts in the motion of the nearby star Proxima Centauri suggest that it may host not one but two alien worlds.”

“The Extreme Crystals Hiding Inside Giant Planets”

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It has a Utah connection and it’s about a vicious and terrifying dinosaur.  That’s why I thought for just a split second, at first glance, that the article could potentially be about me.  Of course, the “smart” adjective should have clued me in right away, as well as the suggestion that the animal had a social life:

“Tyrannosaurus Rex: Scary. Smart. Social?  A new fossil site in Utah reopens an old debate about whether T. rex and its ancestors lived in complex social groups. “

I like to imagine tyrannosaurus bowling leagues, garden clubs, and fraternal associations.  Perhaps a beleaguered society of tyrannosaur vegans?  “Tastes just like triceratops.  But it’s made from ferns, cycads, and palms, and it won’t raise your cholesterol!”

In that context, you might enjoy this article:

“God Is the Supreme Scientist, Says Curator of BYU’s Museum of Paleontology”

You can read more about “Dinosaur Jim” Jensen here:

https://www.dinosaurjim.com

You might also like this testimony from Dr. Wade E. Miller, on my (eventually to be renamed)  “Mormon Scholars Testify” website:

https://www.fairmormon.org/testimonies/scholars/wade-e-miller

I’ve always been interested in dinosaurs, so it has been with some considerable surprise that I’ve learned from the internet that I don’t believe in them.  It seems that my conviction of a young Earth doesn’t allow enough time for them ever to have lived, and — according to several experts — I believe that dinosaur fossils exist on our planet either as divinely-placed false clues, designed to mislead the heathen, or as a result of our planet having been created from fragments of earlier worlds in a kind of supernatural trash-compactor.

The things I can learn online!

Posted from San Diego, California