Re: Yet another Budikkka hole: the Reptile/Mammal Colossal Hole

"Zachriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Budikka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > Archaeopteryx meanwhile continues to be the subject of serious
> > > > scholarship and causes dispute among scientists who do not question
> > > > its authenticity. In an article published in the Zoological Journal
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> > > > the Linnean Society in 1984 (Vol. 82, pp. 119-158)
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> > > Almost 20 years ago.  Do you actually have anything recent or is your
> > > entire set of arguments at least two decades out of date?
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> > yup.. but nothing has changed... doesnt evolution takes a loooooong time
> eh?
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> > > > and called "The
> > > > avian relationship of Archaeopteryx and the origin of birds", R. A.
> > > > Thulborn argues that Archaeopteryx is not, in fact, a bird at all!
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> > > It was a fifty-fifty dino-bird mix.  A transitional form.
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> > nope it was a bird... it is called a bird,
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> > and there is evidence that birds existed way before
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> > http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2000/Jun00/birds.htm
> > CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest
> > animal ever known to have feathers, which may have been the ancestor of
> > birds but clearly was not a dinosaur - a discovery that calls into
serious
> > question many theories about an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and
> > birds.
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> Yes. As usual, the true story is more complicated than it seems. We can
> easily find intermediate forms in the fossil record, but exact
> lines-of-descent can be difficult to determine. Modern genetics should
soon
> provide many answers.
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well, that is my point... Budikka and many other's however ignore this.
truth is we can call anything a trasitional.... it a gap or hole, that needs
to be explored. but to teach this as concrete fact is moraly wrong.