Ping!
Was the Pterosaur designed by the Intelligent Designer or created by God?
I have just two questions and I will not bother you anymore with replies or debate.
Do you get paid by the hit count on these sites you continually promote?
Do you have multiple screennames here? One person in particular replies with the exact same reply, letter for letter, usually within minutes, on every thread you start.
“The claim that they evolved flight naturally, complete with their precise landing skills, defies common sense.”
GGG, you have outdone yourself, again a textbook example of an argument from personal incredulity.
You are on a roll today.
Also I fail to see any evidence in this article that supports a 6-day creation or a young earth.
Pseudoscientists often reveal themselves by their handling of the scientific literature. Their idea of doing scientific research is simply to read scientific periodicals and monographs. They focus on words, not on the underlying facts and reasoning. They take science to be all statements by scientists. Science degenerates into a secular substitute for sacred literature. Any statement by any scientist can be cited against any other statement. Every statement counts and every statement is open to interpretation. - Science and Unreason, Radner and Radner
If the pterosaurs were landing without running forward, as the footprints indicate, it seem they would be quite elegant in landing and approach. It would also indicate they had enough wing strength to take off from a standing start, that sounds like a strong flyer.
Interesting article.
Common sense? What has common sense got to do with evolution? Evolution makes perfect sense, except when it doesn’t, and then we need to claim that it’s very counter-intuitiveness is proof positive that it’s real!
...instead of making a running landing like ducks do.
Observational note: I've never seen a duck land on anything but water....and they don't "run in"...they "water-ski in"...
Ah yes....the false conclusion:
The claim that they evolved flight naturally, complete with their precise landing skills, defies common sense. The correct wing area and shape, body weight, bone articulations,2 muscular strength and attachment points, nerve coordination—as well as integrated visual, wind, and balance detection—were all required just to make one landing. Remove or significantly alter even one feature and the poor creature would have “landed” in a heap, likely causing injury and making itself easy prey.
Deem it nonsense....therefore it must be nonsense. Dear Brian Thomas *MS seems to think that evolution theoretically occurs in one generation. Lizard walking around...lays an egg....POOF!! Pterosaur!!!
At least he used some good imagery this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zGEbVxr0mk
(Landings in that last 30 seconds, and sorry for the inane "humorous" voiceover.)