A creationist takes a place in the world of fossils goes right against what I wrote about here. The dissertation by Marcus Ross is standard and about a certain class of marine lizards called mosasaurs. These animals lived more than 100 million years ago in the Cretaceous period and went extinct about 65 million years ago. The thesis is written within a conventional scientific framework.
The thing is this Ross-guy is hardly a conventional paleontologist. No this does not mean that he is some kind of Indiana Jones, doing his work under questionable circumstances. No, he is a "young-Earth creationist." Those people believe that the bible (the thing used by christians) is literally true about the creation of the universe and that Earth and all species were created in a 6 day week and at most 10,000 years old...
As he has his degree now, he can 'show off' with having his title. And, as what we are warned for by Richard Dawkins, we are even talking about it, writing about it and giving a minority in the scientific world a loud voice! Even I am part of the people who are shocked now and 'shouting' it out loud from their blogs.
I can only hope that a person who uses his scientific degree as a statue to gain even more power within the fundamentalistic christian world will be dethroned by taking away his "Dr." title.
Someone who is capable of using words in a much stronger way with views I totally agree with, is Larry Moran, a Professor at the University of Toronto. You can find the article I refer to here.
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