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Welcome to our second December 2008 newsletter. Thank you for all that you do to pray for and support our ministry.
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Naming New Dinosaurs
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 The BBC have recently reported a study showing that many dinosaurs have been named several times. Research carried out by Professor Michael Benton of Bristol University has shown that this double-counting of dinosaur species may be as high as 50%.
Dr Benton says: "In Victorian times, palaeontologists were keen to name new species,
and in the excitement of the great 'bone wars' for example, from 1870
to 1890, they rushed into print with new names for every odd leg bone,
tooth, or skull cap that came their way. Later work, on more complete specimens, reduced more than 1,000 named dinosaurs to 500 or so."
This is a remarkable admission that the estimate of the number of dinosaur species is much too high. So when evolutionary scientists make fun of creation scientists, suggesting that the Ark couldn't have fitted all the dinosaurs in, we need to remember that, quite often, a new fossil discovery has led to the possible unjustified publication of a new dinosaur species.
Moreover, Noah would not have taken two of every species of dinosaur on the Ark - just two of every kind. Like other animal groups, such as cats (lions, tigers etc), there were probably kinds of dinosaurs. For example, maybe some of the different therapod dinosaurs were part of the same kind. In this way, we can see that the number of animals Noah needed on the Ark was much smaller than the evolutionary scoffers like to think. In fact, the number of all land animals and birds, including dinosaurs, was probably about 16000 kinds - so there would be just over 32000 animals (allowing a few extra for the clean kinds).
Professor Benton is interested in the naming of dinosaur species, because he is studying how they evolved. According to the BBC website, "he tries to understand how this famous animal group changed and diversified over almost 200 million years". What the BBC does not comment on is the speculative nature of timescales such as 200 million years. Benton's comment sheds some light on the dilemma. "There's no point somebody such as myself doing big statistical analyses
of numbers of dinosaur species through time - or indeed any other
fossil group - if you can't be confident that they really are genuinely
different". His work involves statistics - and it involves estimates of time. As we have frequently shown on our website, estimates of time are entirely presuppositional - remember that the idea of carbon-dating fossils is a myth. No fossils are dated by carbon-dating - they are dated by estimates based on their position in the geologic column, which in turn can only be estimated by supposing the sedimentary rocks were formed according to evolutionary processes.
What this story emphasises is the speculative nature of so-called evolutionary evidence. There is no need for the Christian to feel brow-beaten by such pseudo-scientific reports in the popular media.
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Giving at Christmas
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If you have looked at our website, you will have seen that the founder of our ministry, Ken Ham, has written an article on how the American ministry needs funding at this time of year. The same is true in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide the "double your money" offer that Ken introduces in his article. Please be aware that we have some sizeable expenses coming up in early January, such as quarterly rent payment, and would be grateful for any gifts that you prayerfully feel able to give. Please pray that we will be able to meet all our bills as they need paying. If you want to make a donation through our website, please the button below.
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Thank you so much for reading this newsletter. May God bless you in all that you do for Him. Please keep praying.
May we all at AiG-UK take this opportunity to wish you a happy and blessed Christmas.
 Sincerely,
Paul Taylor
Senior Speaker / Head of Media
Answers in Genesis (UK/Europe)
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