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To: Boiler Plate
How about archaeopteryx? Is it a bird? Is it a therapod dinosaur?
319 posted on 03/12/2003 4:50:56 PM PST by Junior (Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.)
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To: Junior
It's a plane, it's a frog, no it just mutated into an evoloonist!
320 posted on 03/12/2003 4:57:12 PM PST by ALS
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To: Junior
Stop! You're both right! It's two, two, two species in one! (/Certs mode).
324 posted on 03/12/2003 4:59:43 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Junior; AndrewC; Dataman
How about archaeopteryx? Is it a bird? Is it a therapod dinosaur?

Seeing that it has perching claws for feet, feathers not scales, that the ankles and teeth can not be derived from a therapod, that it has a bird like breast bone, wings and jaw and that researchers from the Univ of Texas have found birds that supposedly date back 225 million years versus 150 million for archaeopteryx, well if it walks like a bird, flaps like a bird, is dressed like a bird and there were already birds around. I'd go with bird. What do you think it is?

Still there should be millions of examples of transitional forms not just a handful of possibilities. Where are the cogs and the dats. Where are the semi-vertebrates? Why don't they exist today? Why doesn't evolution go backwards as well as forward? Why are there any distinguishable species now? Shouldn't every living creature be a transitional form moving either up down the evolutionary scale?

Nobody has the answers just theories and hypothesis and no way to prove them. Ernst Mayr of Harvard even admits that much.

Still if you would like to point out how archaeopteryx is a transitional form, I am willing to discuss it with you.

Best Regards,
Boiler Plate

388 posted on 03/12/2003 8:18:13 PM PST by Boiler Plate
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