Timeline for Have paleontologists systematically ignored dinosaur DNA that does not match the evolutionary model?
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| Dec 8, 2016 at 11:01 | vote | accept | IAS | ||
| Nov 17, 2016 at 3:57 | comment | added | keshlam | They can argue all they like; they need to provide substantial evidence if they want to be taken seriously, and stronger evidence than the currently leading theory if they want to displace it. If they can do so, more power to them. Until then, the leading theory continues to lead, especially as it doesn't rely only on DNA evidence. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 3:48 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @keshlam: The ICR seem to be arguing that birds are not descended from dinosaurs, and that scientists would know that if they stopped discarding non-bird-like DNA evidence just because it didn't match their theory. | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 6:25 | answer | added | Cc Dd | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 15, 2016 at 1:25 | comment | added | IAS | Here is a paper that mentions the "phylogenetic" bias discussed by ICR: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1801427/pdf/ajhg00038-0006.pdf Notably, in a study of purported dinosaur DNA, phylogenetic comparison was used only to rule out human contamination. | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 22:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/798287392570572801 | ||
| Nov 14, 2016 at 1:17 | comment | added | keshlam | Note that at this point birds are accepted as being the surviving branch of dinosaurs, so finding a near match would be an entirely expected result. | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 1:01 | comment | added | Sklivvz | I've made it clear that this is about systematically discarding data, not occasionally (a single event would certainly not sustain the claim). | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 1:00 | history | edited | Sklivvz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 23:46 | history | reopened | Oddthinking♦ | ||
| Nov 13, 2016 at 23:45 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 23:20 | comment | added | Mark | Here's the basis of an answer: web.archive.org/web/20090816161631/http://www.newsobserver.com/…. Mary Schweitzer, a paleontologist at N.C. State Universityhas published a number of papers about extracting DNA and other organic molecules from dinosaur fossils. She has found proteins and DNA sequences similar to living birds. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 23:12 | comment | added | user22684 | If evidence was found that contradicted the evolutionary model, then there would be no shortage of biologists that would love to have their name immortalised as the man who struck down Darwin. | |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 22:21 | history | edited | IAS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 6:20 | history | closed |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 5:13 | history | asked | IAS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |