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Ross, along with Fred Heeren (an old Earth creationist), attended the Kunming conference in China with grants from the Institute.
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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). 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 (100–66 Ma) deposits around the world. He is an Assistant Professor of Geology in the Biology/Chemistry Department at Liberty University, where he is also the Assistant Director of the Center for Creation Studies.
As a graduate student, Ross was a fellow of the Discovery Institute"s Center for Science and Culture.
The conference was notable for being secretly funded by the Discovery Institute in an attempt to gain scientific legitimacy for intelligent design. Newton wrote, that Ross said that "he thought in a "framework" of standard science.
But for a creationist audience, he said, he used a creationist framework. He has also been interviewed by Christian radio stations, and was featured in Digital Video Disc lectures arguing why he believes 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. Ross,, Stephen C. Ross, Ross,, and David East. Ross,, and Roger J.
