The Demise of Another Evolutionary Link: Archaeopteryx Falls From Its Perch

Evolution News & Views ^ | October 26, 2009 | Casey Luskin

[AUH2O Repub]

That clinches it! The Earth is only 6000 years old and God must have created the fossils already in place in the rocks.

[xcamel]

Convolution News... yeah right.

Seems they’ve never once looked at the leg of a large bird.

However, they pick more cherries from questionable sources than an entire immigrant labor force.

[ClearCase_guy]

Your logical thought process seems to be along the lines of "I think the Earth is more than 6000 years old. Therefore, everything the evolutionists say, must be true. QED."

How about addressing the issue that Evolution seems to have a lot of unproven assumptions and involves some very questionable science?

[beaversmom]

How timely—I was just reading my son a chapter in Dinosaurs of the Land, Sea, and Air about Archaeopteryx.

[Ev Reeman]

Weren’t there BC comic strips featuring this fossil? (I love and miss that comic strip oh so dearly...one of the best comic strips ever!)

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[G Larry]

You embarrass yourself by insinuating the majority of creationists are “young earthers”.

Try defending the pitiful “science” on the evolution side of the debate.

[MrB]

On the flip side of that argument,
evolution REQUIRES huge amounts of time.

This is why “b/millions of years” is defended so vehemently.

[ClearCase_guy]

Johnny Hart was a great cartoonist! But actually, his strip did not feature this fossil — “B.C.” was graced with the Apteryx (kiwi), a “wingless bird with hairy feathers” (as he invariably introduced himself).

[April Lexington]

Be not deceived. G-d is not mocked. Galatians 6:7.

[metmom]

Who would have thought.......?

[metmom]

When researchers put its celebrity bones under the microscope recently, though, they discovered that this icon of evolution might not have been a bird at all.”

"recently"????

How long has that fossil been around and someone is just getting around to examining it that closely?

Shades of Piltdown Man.

[metmom]

That clinches it! The Earth is only 6000 years old and God must have created the fossils already in place in the rocks.

It doesn't *prove* creation, but this discovery sure weakens the evo position and leaves them with a lot less to lean on than before.

[FormerRep]

Try finding any science on the other side.

[metmom]

Convolution News... yeah right. Seems they’ve never once looked at the leg of a large bird. However, they pick more cherries from questionable sources than an entire immigrant labor force.

Do you have any intelligent comments or observations to make about the article or are you going to just continue to use these threads as a platform for attacking GGG, creationists, and Christians, as per your usual MO?

I've yet to see you actually contribute anything in support of evolution but rather you tip your hand that all you're interested in is tearing down anything you don't like, Christianity in particular, just like the majority of evo supporters on this forum.

[metmom]

(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?

[Ev Reeman]

OK, sorry, my bad.

[xcamel]

You support postings of junk science to support a fairy tale. What else would expect?

My simple and terse comment was 100% accurate. Sorry you don’t like it.

[MGBGUN]

“On the flip side of that argument,
evolution REQUIRES huge amounts of time.

This is why “b/millions of years” is defended so vehemently”

You, my friend, have hit the evolutionary nail squarely on the head!
Without those millions of years evolution is dead. UNLESS....the evos find a new, quicker way for evo to happen and trust me they would!