Its a conference paper, so I don't know. If it has, it was by other creation "scientists".

I guess I'm lucky to have been sheltered enough to just notice this.

They are all self citations or other creationist refs... for better or worse.

I counted 50.

I tend to think you are right based on the cross sections showing the septa... also not a coral expert.

I recant, based on the scale quote below they are probably too big to be Syringoporoids.

Yes, I believe its a Syringoporoid.

Doing research has to come with an epistemological humility that accepts you don't already know everything & understands that some things are going to be uncomfortably ambiguous. The 'mainstream' consensus on any issue won't be perfect, but you aren't going to overturn it with 5 min with ChatGPT.

“That name, man,” Riedman says of the boring billion. “We’ve got to kill it. Kill it with fire.”

Gave me a smile to see they interviewed you about your work too.