Truth in Science - letters in The Times

Truth in Science - letters in The Times

Both Prof. Andy McIntosh and Richard Buggs from Truth in Science have letters published in The Times over the weekend.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2392177,00.html

Richard invites critics to identify any errors on their website.

Andy suggests their critics are seeking to brainwash the next generation into humanism and notes that children should be taught how to think not what to think, and be exposed to an honest debate.

More on Dikika girl.

Despite the evolutionary slant put on the find of Dikika girl by the popular media, this latest find instead provides strong evidence that Lucy and her kind were in fact apes and not some ancestor of human beings...the study also found that the once fluid filled semicircular canals of the inner ear were distinctly like that of the chimpanzee, and not like a human at all. As these canals are crucial for balance, it therefore demonstrates that Dikika girl was more at home in the trees than on the ground, and therefore bipedal locomotion would not have been the norm. The means of locomotion on the ground of Australopithecus afarensis would have been much closer to that of an ape than human being.

When this evidence is added together it shows that it in many important respects Dikika girl and the Australopithecus afarensis species as a whole should now be considered to be typical of apes and not a transitional form. Although in previous finds the shape of the pelvis has indicated some morphology that is different from modern apes, the presence of an ape-like semi-circular canal and general upper body shape demonstrates that the means of locomotion of Australopithecus afarensis is more ape-like than previously claimed. Dikika girl provides strong evidence that Australopithecus afarensis should now be identified as a species of ape.
http://www.csm.org.uk/news.php?viewmessage=67

Truth in Science ruffles feathers

A new organisation has recently appeared in the UK challenging the official science education policies because some of the evidence presented as fact can be shown to be false. Oops.

http://www.truthinscience.org.uk/site/

Check out the evidence (or lack of ) for evolution.

http://www.truthinscience.org.uk/site/content/category/18/52/65/