The New State Religion

S Lewis, in the final book of the Chronicles of Narnia series presents a Narnia taken over largely by evil. The enemies of Narnia are running the show and the worship of Aslan has been prostituted to support the new state religion, It is a religion that takes from the people for the benefit of the few elites, and combines the worship of Aslan with that of the evil false god Tash. While the allegory to the last days of the Bible is rather weak, and there is a significant heresy contained in the book (Aslan, supposed to represent Christ, accepts the worship of a follower of Tash, the Devil, done in good faith), the scenario itself it prophetic.

A Look at Feathered Dinosaur Baraminology Pt 1

I’ve been poking around in the McLain et al 2018 paper for a while now, particularly after having Dr. McLain … More

A Hard Look at Reality

This article has been very difficult to write. But I wanted to let people know what is going to happen … More

Wolves and Thylacines

A very interesting paper has come out in Communications Biology and been reported on in a Phys.org article regarding the similarity between wolves and thylacines (better known as Tasmanian tigers). In the new paper, the authors looked at skull similarities between wolves and thylacine pups. The pups were remarkably similar, despite being essentially unrelated evolutionarily. Let’s have a look at this article, then get into some of the implications for fossil phylogenetics.