Not just in Kansas, Anymore....

[Allan Shanfield]

What amazes me is that someone viewing or hiking the Grand Canyon, coupled
with the "facts" of paleobiology - indeed there were different organisms
in deeper-time rocks, could consider that the earth is 6 mya.

Moreover, what is unfortunate, and taboo, is that the paleobiologist's
view is a religious - "religiaire" = to bind - one.  Many can feel the
traverse of time going down to various facies, viewing differently aged
(potassium-argon, etc) rocks and odd life-forms and marvel how tiny modern
time is. Who cares if evolution is falsifiable; science is knowledge and
falsifiability is simply one way of knowing, an especially important
consideration if one needs to be published for "real veracity". Something
is off here.

Allan Shanfield
UC Davis