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“I now realize that I have made a fool of myself by believing that there were no presentable theories of the development of inanimate matter up to the first living creature capable of reproduction.” - Anthony Flew to Richard Carrier

A month ago I posted a story regarding Anthony Flew, a “famous atheist” who apparently was stepping back from his fallacious ways.

It has become apparent however, that a number of his statements were made based upon misunderstandings and ignorance, as Richard Carrier discusses (scroll down to the January update for more).

And I should note, that I am primarily following this issue because a number of my friends and family read this blog and are Creationists in one flavor or the other. And for the record, his conclusion is how I would accurately describe myself.

Via Jacob Grier.

Early mammal snacked on dinos:

The first fossil, the size of a large cat and dubbed Repenomamus robustus, was found to have the remains of a young parrot-faced dinosaur, a psittacosaur, in its stomach. This is the first direct evidence that early mammals ate small vertebrates.

The other find is arguably even more impressive - a relative of R. robustus called Repenomamus gigantus: a dog-sized mammal more than a metre long and probably weighing 14 to 15kg.

“A full-grown Repenomamus gigantus… could hold its own against small dinosaurs,” says the American Museum of Natural History, whose curator of palaeontology, Meng Jin, led the Chinese-US expedition.

Don’t forget this modern day ROUS, the Capybara.