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Comment by Stephen on July 13, 2017 at 7:35pm

                             I'm going to miss Dippy

Stand and gaze up in awe. A blue whale skeleton has replaced Dippy the diplodocus at the @NHM_London http://thetim.es/2ucAZZP

Comment by Mrs.B on June 29, 2017 at 8:09pm

There ya go!

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Comment by Stephen on May 25, 2017 at 4:09pm

Creationism and evolution tackled head-on in science lessons | Guardian Investigations

Are some science teachers failing their pupils by not confronting creationist arguments when they come up during lessons on evolution? In this film presented by science journalist Dr Adam Rutherford made to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species in 2009 Prof Michael Reiss from the Institute of Education, University of London, said many science teachers felt uncomfortable talking about religion, but that refusing to engage with pupils who had creationist views would be counterproductive (a viewpoint that would later get him into trouble). Dr Jeremy Pritchard at the University of Birmingham, and London's Natural History Museum, explain how they are trying to redress the balance

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Comment by Tom Sarbeck on May 19, 2017 at 8:06pm

"...if religion is considered an instinct, and intelligence the ability to rise above one's instincts,....

Ergo, it's so because we say it's so.

Comment by Stephen on May 19, 2017 at 7:59pm

Atheists are more intelligent than religious people, say researchers

New paper sets out to explain negative correlation between faith and intellect found in dozens of past studies

Charlotte England 

The Independent | 2017-05-18T15:18:03+01:00

A woman holds a rosary during a rally AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Religious people are less intelligent on average than atheists because faith is an instinct and clever people are better at rising above their instincts, researchers have claimed. 

The theory — called the 'Intelligence-Mismatch Association Model' — was proposed by a pair of authors who set out to explain why numerous studies over past decades have found religious people to have lower average intelligence than people who do not believe in a god.

A 2013 analysis by University of Rochester found “a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity” in 53 out of 63 historic studies.

A negative correlation between intelligence and religion makes sense if religion is considered an instinct, and intelligence the ability to rise above one's instincts, say researchers Edward Dutton and Dimitri van der Linden in their new paper published today.

Writing for Springer’s journal of Evolutionary Psychological Science, the authors – who are based at the Ulster Institute for Social Research and Rotterdam University respectively – explained their model is based on the ideas of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa.

more= read:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/atheists-more-intelligent...

Comment by Mrs.B on May 12, 2017 at 5:35pm

Can you imagine the painstaking work that goes into finding, cleaning, identifying, & putting everything together?

Comment by Stephen on May 12, 2017 at 4:59pm

© Robert Clark/ National Geographic A close-up of the nodosaur fossil. The dinosaur’s head is clearly visible.

‘Rare as winning the lottery’: New dinosaur fossil so well-preserved it looks like a statue

Travis M. Andrews 

MSN |

Before being assembled into something recognizable at a museum, most dinosaur fossils look to the casual observer like nothing more than common rocks. No one, however, would confuse the over 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil for a stone.

The fossil, being unveiled today in Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, is so well preserved it looks like a statue.

Even more surprising might be its accidental discovery, as unveiled in the June issue of National Geographic magazine.

On March 21, 2011, Shawn Funk was digging in Alberta’s Millennium Mine with a mechanical backhoe, when he hit “something much harder than the surrounding rock.” A closer look revealed something that looked like no rock Funk had ever seen, just “row after row of sandy brown disks, each ringed in gunmetal gray stone.”

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What he had found was a 2,500-pound dinosaur fossil, which was soon shipped to the museum in Alberta, where technicians scraped extraneous rock from the fossilized bone and experts examined the specimen.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes — it was a dinosaur,” Donald Henderson, the curator of dinosaurs at the museum, told Alberta Oil. “When we first saw the pictures we were convinced we were going to see another plesiosaur (a more commonly discovered marine reptile).”

More specifically, it was the snout-to-hips portion of a nodosaur, a “member of the heavily-armored ankylosaur subgroup,” that roamed during the Cretaceous Period, according to Smithsonian. This group of heavy herbivores, which walked on four legs, likely resembled a cross between a lizard and a lion — but covered in scales.

Read more=  read:http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/%E2%80%98rare-as-winning-the-lo...

Comment by Chris on May 4, 2017 at 3:14am

Horses are like big dogs.

Comment by Mrs.B on May 3, 2017 at 7:48pm

What a terrific reproduction!

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