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They've even invented their own version of cladistics software! ncse.ngo/baraminology
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Creation science comes as a surprise to many scientists, and thus I suspect that the fact that there is creationist systematics will come as an even bigger surprise to systematists.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
They've even invented their own version of cladistics software! ncse.ngo/baraminology
Yeah - mine was more of a general observation rather than anything specific I've seen from today. But certainly the resources & effort spent on scicomm (and how effective it may or may not be) is going to vary quite a bit in-person vs. digitally.
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yeah - mine was more of a general observation rather than anything specific I've seen from today. But certainly the resources & effort spent on scicomm (and how effective it may or may not be) is going to vary quite a bit in-person vs. digitally.
To be clear I'm still not entirely sure how to approach this either. It's just food for thought
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
To be clear I'm still not entirely sure how to approach this either. It's just food for thought
...and even though there will be a few people in the comments who understand and are trying to explain how the process works and that science is a process of discovery and refinement and definitely NOT video game patch notes, they always get drowned out by nonsense.
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
...and even though there will be a few people in the comments who understand and are trying to explain how the process works and that science is a process of discovery and refinement and definitely NOT video game patch notes, they always get drowned out by nonsense.
Like for example you see a few people on Twitter saying "can't believe paleontologists updated Spinosaurus again, what's next?" and all of a sudden you get Instagram reels saying stuff like "they nerfed Spinosaurus again :skull emoji:" with 100k+ likes (which I've seen several examples of)...
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Like for example you see a few people on Twitter saying "can't believe paleontologists updated Spinosaurus again, what's next?" and all of a sudden you get Instagram reels saying stuff like "they nerfed Spinosaurus again :skull emoji:" with 100k+ likes (which I've seen several examples of)...
These are all great points (and pretty accurate IMO) but I think part of the concern is focused around how far and how rapidly these misunderstandings can spread, and also how difficult it can be to correct said misunderstandings once they're out in the wild
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
These are all great points (and pretty accurate IMO) but I think part of the concern is focused around how far and how rapidly these misunderstandings can spread, and also how difficult it can be to correct said misunderstandings once they're out in the wild
Every modern-day argument in vertebrate paleontology is simply another shot fired in the Bone Wars
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Every modern-day argument in vertebrate paleontology is simply another shot fired in the Bone Wars