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

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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
> of
> > > > > the Linnean Society in 1984 (Vol. 82, pp. 119-158)
> > > >
> > > > 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 entire set of arguments at least two decades out of date?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!
> > > >
> > > > 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,
> > >
> > > and there is evidence that birds existed way before
> > >
> > > 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.

I already posted that you discovery has been refuted. But even if birds
evolved from a different branch of the reptilian tree than the therapods,
how would that change the fact that they evolved?