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Feedback: Dinosaurs against climate change

4 December 2013

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Dinosaurs vs climate change

WARNING: the radio advert to which Barry Cash alerts us is presented at tinyurl.com/dino-ad with an apology – listening to it “probably decreased your IQ by a couple of points”. It’s by Ken Ham, founder of answersingenesis.org, and is aimed at the Next Generation Science Standards for US schools. It is no doubt fuelling the continuing opposition in states such as Kentucky and Texas to the standards’ inclusion of the science of evolution and of climate change (5 October,…

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