Who killed the Dinosaurs?

If you said, "The asteroids dun it," you just revealed yourself to be so 2008:

The dinosaurs were wiped out by volcanoes that erupted in India about sixty five million years ago, according to new research.

For the last thirty years scientists have believed a giant meteorite that struck Chicxulub in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was responsible for the mass extinction of species, including T Rex and its cousins.

But now Professor Gerta Keller says fossilized traces of plants and animals dug out of low lying hills at El Penon in northeastern Mexico show this event happened 300,000 years after the dinosaurs disappeared.

Here is the abstract of her paper. Or at least I think so; I can't make head or tail of it.

I don't have a scientific axe to grind on this question one way or the other. But VoxDay calls it exactly right:

The relevant point is that what scientists were previously telling us that we were stupid and ignorant to doubt was, in fact, false.

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[W]hether one has doubts about a particular theory or not, there's simply no cause or excuse for the attempted intellectual bullying to which so many scientists and science fetishists are prone, and such behavior does nothing but increase the rational observer's doubts about the theories they are advocating.

Quite so. I would put it this way: science, broadly speaking, is contingent. Scientists look at the data and say one thing today. Tomorrow they get more data and say something else. All this is entirely appropriate. But we should recognize that very little science is appropriate for the catechistic way in which its findings are often presented. And most particularly, the demands made by "science fetishists" that we discard long-standing theological and moral truths in the face of today's pronouncement strike me a poor guide to living our lives.