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To: Jehu
Archaeopteryx! OK, now click your heels together 3 times and say, "I wish I was in Kansas." That is an even better fantasy. Look back in one of my previous posts for MY evolutionary professor who disagrees...kay, you guys boor me.

Evidently Jehu is referring to this post (number 657), in which he says

Note the following from Dr. Alan Feducia of University of Northern Carolina, one of the world's leading bird experts AND an evolutionist. ‘Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of “paleobabble” is going to change that.’2 Archaeopteryx is the premier (and just about the only species) put forth as a "transitional" form. And yet one of the leading experts on birds who IS an evolutionist himself is honest enough to admit "it is a BIRD!" And this labeling game just goes on anyway.

Feduccia’s ‘The Origin and Evolution of Birds’ is a wonderful book. While it’s by no means mainstream, it’s interesting, and opinionated, and chock-full of facts, a commodity creationists are starved for. Let’s start with Chapter 1, Paragraph 1….

The creature thus memorialized was Archaeopteryx lithographica , and, though indisputably birdlike, it could with equal truth be called reptilian….The Archaeopteryx fossil is, in fact, the most superb example of a specimen perfectly intermediate between two higher groups of living organisms – what has come to be called a ‘missing link’, a Rosetta Stone of evolution.

It is clear from the above that Jehu, either from malice or from willful disregard of the truth, has represented Feduccia as saying the exact opposite of what Feduccia in fact said. Feduccia explicitly refers to Archaeopteryx as a missing link, the epitome of a transitional form. Jehu tried to pretend he said the opposite. You might say Jehu has borne false witness; me, I just call Jehu a liar.

911 posted on 12/21/2004 8:25:42 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor

LOL. I wonder which creationist crapsite Jehu got that "fact" from. You can tell when Jehu is typing lies because his fingers move on the keyboard.


912 posted on 12/22/2004 12:04:59 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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