Posted on 04/15/2005 6:39:50 AM PDT by doc30
evo ping please?
COOL! Good post
At long last the Chicken vs. Egg conundrum solved!
Of course, The Institute of Creation Science hasn't weighed in on this yet....
I'm still waiting for thier answer as to why the dinosaurs perished in the Flood, but not the birds or reptiles. I guess dinosaurs must have been sinful and deserved destruction.
I didn't think there were any scientist left who didn't accept that modern birds are nothing but legacy dinosaurs.
This birds evolved from dinosaurs debate is taken too seriously. It is just dividing the scientific community into two camps that feel they need to fight against each other about it.
Obviously birds evolved from earlier species. Whether it was the dinosaurs line or the reptiles line or amphibians is not important enough to fight about endlessly.
It would be better to just find the specific species that eventually led to birds.
Some years ago there was talk in the state of Maryland of selecting a state dinosaur, despite the fact they already had one: the Baltimore oriole.
This explains where birds come from, but now we must ask....WHERE do alligators, lizards, snakes and other REPTILES come from? It would seem to me that this proves that dinosaurs were not reptiles but really GIANT FLIGHTLESS BIRDS, and warm-blooded to boot.......
Evolve your thinking -- here's one:
Dr. McIntosh is Reader in Combustion Theory, Department of Fuel and Energy, University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He holds a B.S. with first class honors in applied mathematics from the University of Wales, a Ph.D. in the theory of combustion from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, and a D.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Wales. He has contributed chapters to 10 textbooks dealing with combustion theory and published over 80 research papers. Dr. McIntosh is the author of Genesis for Today: Showing the Relevance of the Creation/Evolution Debate to Today’s Society.1And here's part of what he says:
Flight cannot be explained by supposed evolutionary change. The attempts to find any transitional forms have all failed. Archaeopteryx has been shown to have fully developed flight feathers (thus, no half-bird), with other recognizable birds found fossilized at a lower level. Other supposed “pro-avis” creatures (half reptile/half bird) have never been found. The evidence is overwhelming that birds have always been birds, and is entirely consistent with their being created right at the beginning on Day 5, just as the Bible says.It is not scientific to argue, on the one hand, for the obvious design of a Boeing 747, and then rule design “out of court” when considering the far more versatile flight of an eagle, falcon or the remarkable hummingbird. Modern minds within the secular media are presenting an unscientific duality of thought when praising engineering complexity in man-made machines, glorying in the great creative advances of mankind, but presenting the complexity in the world around us (of often far greater intricacy than man-made machines) as due to a gigantic unplanned cosmic experiment, with no Creator.
Dr. McIntosh is Reader in Combustion Theory, Department of Fuel and Energy, University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He holds a B.S. with first class honors in applied mathematics from the University of Wales, a Ph.D. in the theory of combustion from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, and a D.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Wales. He has contributed chapters to 10 textbooks dealing with combustion theory and published over 80 research papers
Well he certainly seems the chap to go to to find out about the evolution of birds.
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Fossilized eggs, pong
Bold prediction (OK, it's already a postdiction): the people who make a science out of not getting things won't get this report.
Please help me on this one. Are they saying that a dino was laying bird eggs?
Add to that the feathered dinosaurs found in China. Looks like feathers evolved first as a means of controling body heat (i.e. keep the feather close to stay warm, puff them out and cool off). Modern bird feathers do this quite nicely and, this ventilator trick is something mammals can't do with hair very well.
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