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To: FormerRep; G Larry
(Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution, p. 116 (Regnery, 2000).)Archaeopteryx isn’t the only evolutionary icon losing its claim as the ancestor of birds. In recent months we’ve seen paleontologists increasingly arguing that the entire clade of dinosaurs should no longer be considered ancestral to birds.

Is this inaccurate?

17 posted on 10/27/2009 8:45:59 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

As yet there is a difference of opinions with the greater volume of evidence falling on the side of for rather than against. So if you’re asking if there is a disagreement between scientists then the statement is correct. Of course, there was disagreement about fission too until Oppenheimer built the bomb.


21 posted on 10/27/2009 9:00:38 AM PDT by FormerRep
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To: metmom
....."Is this inaccurate?"....

Yes, and according to the Discovery Channel, they are having to reform their thinking on the evolution of dino's that are just the same dino at various ages. They have classified many dino's as evolving species, when in fact, they are just examples of the same dino at various ages. If they found your skeleton and your child's skeleton, they could posit that your child was and earlier undeveloped version of you that took millions of years to change. It is messing up many of their previous theories about who formed what.

Keep in mind that ALL theories have to be consistent to even have a half life of a few years. Then something comes along to challenge that theory so adjustments are made to try and explain the anomalies or the anomalies are just ignored.

When someone found an iron hammer encrusted in a block of coal, deep in a coal mine that was said to be millions of years old, they just threw it out and said the mine was still millions of years in the making. So they would either have to say early hominids made iron hammers, or it doesn't take millions of years to make coal. They just ignored it and went on.

When all else fails, they can say a space alien made it.

24 posted on 10/27/2009 9:21:22 AM PDT by chuckles
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