Answers in Genesis has once again been bullied on the news media
playground. Colby Cosh, writing in Canada’s National Post,
finally got around to using fossils described several months
back in the journal Nature as ammo against Answers in Genesis.
The fossils, dubbed Odontochelys, were discovered in
southwestern China; researchers published a short description
last fall. Regular News to Note readers may remember our full
response to the find last December. In that item, we quoted
ScienceNOW reporter Erik Stokstad, who commented that the
fossils “raise more questions than they answer.” We continued:
Several media headlines, such as the BBC’s, suggest the find
answers how the turtle got its shell; for instance, the BBC News
article claims the find “shows that the turtle’s breast plate
developed earlier than the rest of its shell.” But the
ScienceNOW report makes it clear that, actually, the fossil has
prompted several different interpretations by evolutionists. For
example, the Chicago Field Museum’s Olivier Ri