Marcus R. Ross
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Marcus R. Ross is an American vertebrate paleontologist and young Earth creationist. Ross was featured in a February 2007 New York Times article about the conflict between his young Earth creationist beliefs (which hold the Earth to be only thousands of years old) and his doctoral dissertation (which involved animals extinct for millions of years).[1] His dissertation was on tracking the diversity, biostratigraphy, and extinction of mosasaurs, an extinct group of marine reptiles whose remains are found in Late Cretaceous period (100 - 65 MYA) deposits around the world.[2]
He has also been interviewed by Christian radio stations, and was featured in DVD lectures arguing why intelligent design is a "better explanation" than evolution for the Cambrian explosion, a 70 million to 80 million year diversification of invertebrate animal life about 530 MYA.[3]
Ross received his B.S. in Earth Science from Pennsylvania State University, his M.S. in Paleontology from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and his Ph.D. in Geosciences from the University of Rhode Island. He is presently an Assistant Professor of Geology in the Biology/Chemistry Department at Liberty University. He is also the Assistant Director of the Center for Creation Studies at LU.
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- Ross, Marcus R., Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Nelson, and Paul Chien. 2004. "The Cambrian Explosion: Biology's Big Bang." In Darwinism, Design and Public Education (Michigan State University Press), pp. 323-402. ISBN 0870136755
- Ross, Marcus R. 2004. "Who Believes What? Clearing up Confusion over Intelligent Design and Young-Earth Creationism." Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 53, n. 3, May, 2005, p. 319-323.
- Ross, Marcus R., and David E. Fastovsky, "Resolving Mosasaur (Diapsida, Squamata) Extinction Across The Atlantic," Paper No. 165-7, at the 2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (22–25 October 2006).
- Ross, Marcus R., and Roger J. Cuffey, "Chondrichthyan And Reptilian Fossils From The Upper Cretaceous Peedee Formation At Elizabethtown, Southeastern North Carolina, And Comparison To New Jersey Faunas," Paper No. 24-2, at the Geological Society of America Joint Annual Meeting (March 12–14, 2003).
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- ^ "Believing Scripture but Playing by Science's Rules," New York Times, 12 February, 2007 (Accessed 19 October, 2007)
- ^ "The Cambrian Explosion" Video Study Kit, Recorded April 24, 2004, at Biola University. Accessed 19 October, 2007.
- ^ "Creationist and professor doesn't believe his own work," The Virginian-Pilot, May 29, 2007.
