Previously the hip thing was just thought to be a shared trait or an independently derived trait - but the feathers clinched that they belonged to the “bird” clade based upon shared ancestry explaining a derived trait.
There is also protein sequence evidence. The closest sequence to the collagen discovered from a T-rex bone was that of a chicken.
It has long been known that dinosaurs were closer related to birds than to reptiles.
Science doesn't do “proof” it does evidence.
You can ignore the evidence if you want - but it is still there.
The evidence indicates that once there were lots and lots of dinosaurs but no birds. Then there were feathered flying dinosaurs. Then there were birds, including lots of flightless birds that were, without evidence of feathers, thought to be dinosaurs.
Science it keeps changing. Being a creationist means never having to change your opinion based upon evidence. Being a scientist means you must.
Evolution isn’t falsifiable. That’s the problem.
Yes, science requires proof. If someone give me an electrical engineering problem, I can solve it through the application of Kirchoff’s Laws, or I can build the circuits. If the numbers do not match, then I have made an error along the way.
Evolution doesn’t work that way. We simple don’t have the means to test evolutionary theory in an empirical fashion.
Until then, there is no difference between Kipling and Darwin.
"Science" doesn't change - new evidences are discovered which force Darwinists to rewright their texts.
Empiricism Forever!!
Outstanding!
The last paragraph was GOLD, sir.