Evolving Double Standards

National Review ^ | April 01, 2004 | John West

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Now you're just being cranky. Ignatz just wanted to get metaphysical. He's an evo.

You're going to the Hobbit hole if you're not careful.

[Dimensio]

Now you're just being cranky.

Sorry. I am cranky lately. I'm not sure why.

[Junior]

Would that be a ground finch or a tree finch?

Surprise us.

[Cowgirl]

The feathers of Archaeopteryx suggest that the creature was a skillful flyer or glider, at the same time that its skeleton suggests otherwise. Archaeopteryx is a mosaic of characteristics almost impossible to interpret, let alone to base evolutionary theories on!"—W. Frair and P. Davis, Case for Creation (1983), p. 81

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(If you throw down a platter of beef and a bottle of Scotch I won't tell anybody... ;)

[Stultis]

Please refute the man with evidence, not scorn.

Alright. Which man do you want me to refute? The one who says Archaeopteryx can't be transitional between birds and dinosaurs because it's a bird? Or the one who says Archaeopteryx can't be transitional between birds and dinosaurs because it's a dinosaur?

[js1138]

The feathers of Archaeopteryx suggest that the creature was a skillful flyer or glider...

Perhaps you'd like to explain in detail how that interpretation is made.

To me, a chicken feather looks pretty much like the feather of a flying bird, but I'd never describe a chicken as a skillful flyer.