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To: Jehu

Archaeopteryx! OK, now click your heels together 3 times and say, "I wish I was in Kansas." That is an even better fantasy.

Look back in one of my previous posts for MY evolutionary professor who disagrees...kay, you guys boor me.

B: I did and already refuted it. First off, Feduccia does not, that I've read, claim Archeaopteryx is not a transitional form. Certainly the little snippet you provided doesn't indicate that. Feduccia argues that birds didn't evolve from theropods, but from a more primitive group of dinos known as, if memory serves me, Pelycosaurs. Second it is laughable to suggest that in order for science to come to a consensus all scientists must agree. In the case of the birds are dinos hypothesis, the overwelming majority of paleontologists as typified by the likes of Kevin Padian regard the issue as settled. The number of dissenters, like Feduccia, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And given recent work on the development of bird embryos, Feduccia no longer has a supportable argument. He's an important scientist, so I figure eventually unless he comes up with a good argument to support his hypothesis, he'll eventually give up on it. Thats a hard thing to do when you've staked much of your professional career on it. There's no harm in being wrong, however.

B: Sorry, you still lose. But feel free to continue and play pretend you didn't read what I wrote.


861 posted on 12/21/2004 2:04:37 PM PST by bigdakine
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To: bigdakine
Give me the steps from scales to feathers. YOU propose how that came about. Archeopteryx is a bird. Or if you prefer call it a reptile. You don't even know if it was cold blooded or warm.

Or a thousand other things that would identify it as one or the other, or as something in between...it was lost with the DNA! So my bird expert is just as good as any of your LABEL game experts, no matter how much they stamp their evolved little hoofs and say, "it is settled!"


All you have are fossils, no DNA, you can only SAY it is a transitory species. It cannot be proven. Once again the ability of ToE to have the only evidence in science that cannot be falsified is a marvelous mechanism to keep this circular logic machine alive.
873 posted on 12/21/2004 2:46:41 PM PST by Jehu
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