The “newspaper“, “The Adelaide Advertiser” has a reasonably accurate article for a change!

PDF of one page text + photo is here.

On page 51(!) of our local coloured toilet-paper, Samela Harris published an article that is NOT about football, what causes or cures cancer, but a reasonably accurate piece about Richard Dawkins, and his visit to the Adelaide Museum, which houses the famous Ediacaran fossils.

(The Ediacaran Hills are in the central Flinders’ Ranges of South Australia. Australia has quite the most ancient exposed rocks on the planet, including the Jack Hills in WA which, by sheer co-incidence is sited the station that was run by one of my sisters. It seems that fossils are in the family blood. Like Richard Dawkins, I should like (after I die of course) the chance to be fossilised. Some say that such has already occured.)

The Ediacaran fossils, discovered by Reginald Sprigg, (known to me personally as an avuncular business colleague and close friend of my father’s since I was born), these vital fossils are the oldest on the planet of early multicellular life-forms, and to suggest that Prof. Dawkins was keen to view them would be a gross understatement!

Listening to Sprigg’s private tales of how the scientific establishment would not recognise these fossils (for too many decades) as being markers of living entities was dispiriting for me, but he was eventually proven to be 100% correct.