Daniel Loxton

Daniel Loxton

@Daniel_Loxton
Editor of Junior Skeptic (kids' critical thinking periodical bound inside Skeptic magazine) and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
http://www.skeptic.com/junior_skeptic/
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@ Fantastic!
 
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@ That's the funny thing: some YEC schemes require Darwinian forces to be more powerful and species more plastic than standard evo.
 
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Daniel Loxton
YEC conflicts with geology, the fossil record, astronomy, even physics—but not nec "the origin of species by means of natural selection."
 
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Daniel Loxton
Reflecting again on a little-appreciated truth about young Earth creationism that I blogged about in 2009:
 
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CBC Marketplace
TONIGHT AT 8: "What FX?": It's Canada's top-selling cold remedy, but does COLD-FX really do what the company claims?
 
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@ You'll soon see some Komodo-based texturing in our secret villains for Tales of Prehistoric Life Book 2. Looking at reference now.
 
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That's the way to ! RT @ @ Ha :) Read first para here (on Komodo )..
 
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@ I recommend being a parent almost as much as I recommend owning my books. Kids make everything awesomer.
 
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That sounds kinda @. eats lasers, uses Chuck Norris as footstool.
 
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Darren Naish
sometimes eats charcoal, uses infrasound. When named in 1901 (from skin bandoliers) thought to be a horse & named Equus johnstoni.
 
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Daniel Loxton
I can't tell you which species feature in Book 2, but I will tell you that most of 'em are fuzzy.
 
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Daniel Loxton
You know why Ankylosaurus and T.rex were handy choices for Book 1 of "Tales of Prehistoric Life"? No feathers (perhaps) and no pycnofibres.
 
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@ Yes, and yes!
 
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Daniel Loxton
The Papo brand "velociraptor" that guards my new monitor is wildly inaccurate, yet puts me in the mood to make paleoart
 
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@ two out of three for me, too: I picked up a long-time DuMaurier habit while dating a theatre techie; also, a love of maglites.
 
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@ Leatherman, mag-light, and DuMaurier cigarettes: the Canadian theatre techie's toolkit, circa 1994
 
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@ @ Hm. Yes, locking blades are important for safety.
 
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@ Looks like the unicorn is winning: They're notoriously vicious. Good eating, though:
 
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@ @ I have no dog in that fight. I carried simple @ when I was a shepherd. For pliers etc, I used pliers etc
 
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Daniel Loxton
Wearing my new Quarrelsome Yeti hoodie by @ (One of his prints features a monster fighting a unicorn!)