We wouldn’t want to be accused of viewpoint discrimination…

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Troy Britain

Goodbye Skip

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Troy Britain

From left to right, Glenn Branch, Skip Evans and myself at the offices of the NCSE (2003).

I just heard from my friend Ed Brayton that Skip Evans, former National Center for Science Education, Network Project Director (a job I applied for after he left) and veteran of the creation/evolution debate has died due to heart problems. My condolences go out to Skip’s close friends and family.

He will be missed.

For more information see:

A Death in the Family: Skip Evans by Wesley Elsberry.

Skip Evans dies by the NCSE

I started early with this paleo stuff

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Troy Britain

I finally had a chance this weekend to pick through some of my mother’s family photo collection and found a few pictures of myself that are prophetic about what my lifelong interests would be. They are from one of the family camping trips we took, traveling all over the American Southwest. During this trip, circa 1975, we went to Dinosaur National Monument in Utah/Colorado.

First is a picture of me (10 years old) with the famous Stegosaurus statue that greets visitors outside the Quarry Exhibit Hall. You can tell by the look on my face that I was having a terrible time.

Now admittedly the color they had originally painted this statue (a brownish green scheme) was a little dull, though we have no way of knowing what color Stegosaurus actually was. But the current paint job on the statue seems a little bizarre to me.

And here we have a shot of me inside the Quarry Exhibit Hall, being much more serious in the presence of the astonishing number of dinosaur fossils exposed in the Carnegie Dinosaur Quarry.