This character who strikes me as a P.Z. Myers wannabe claims that it's "actual science smacking down creationist fairy tales" (straw man, question-begging epithet), and uses a fallacy of reification in the title, "Pterodactyl Murdered by Science!" Hard to take people like this seriously.
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Couldn't find a picture of the image under discussion that I felt I could legally use, so I made something up. Original image from US BLM, with pterosaur clip art. |
When new information falsifies your hypothesis, you accept it and move on. Darwinians need to learn that, too.To read the rest, click on "Rock Art Is Not a Pterosaur".
A canyon wall in Utah has a faded pictograph that under certain conditions might possibly look like a winged monster. Some creationists have claimed it is a pterosaur, drawn by native Americans who may have witnessed one after the Flood. A new study appears to lay that interpretation to rest. Archaeological chemist Marvin Rowe visited Black Dragon Canyon and studied the glyph with X-ray fluorescence and an image stretching algorithm. His results reveal a “far more mundane” interpretation, Emily DeMarco reports in Science Magazine, showing the form to be a collection of people and modern animals, drawn in the characteristic style of the period.
The article goes beyond just correcting the facts. DeMarco quotes people who seem to take glee in debunking creationism as a whole:
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