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To: varmintman
All I saw there was BS. Flight feathers on arms which weren't wings yet would serve zero purpose other than getting torn off or damaged as the creature tried to use its arms for grasping or whatever, leaving the creature colder than when he had down feathers in the first place. Natural selection itself would mitigate against it.

How about learning something about evolution and the way it works before you try to critique it? Survival of the fittest does not refer to what *you* think is most fit, but to whatever best enables survival of the species in question. If a feather is such a complicated structure that it couldn't possibly have evolved, then how do you explain that a single-cell zygote without any structure becomes, within weeks, a fully formed bird with feathers?

There were, FYI, several species of feathered dinosaurs besides birds. Here is a nice article, complete with fossil pictures and schematics of many feather types that evolved. It is apparently course literature for an upper level university biology class, but I think it is readable.

123 posted on 03/30/2012 4:45:50 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom
How about learning something about evolution and the way it works before you try to critique it?

Evolution is a brain-dead ideological doctrine which teaches that your neighbor is a meat byproduct of random events and processes. It was the philosophical cornerstone of the Nazi and Communist systems and the various eugenics programs and arms races which led to the two world wars.

Is there something else I need to know about it?

124 posted on 03/30/2012 4:52:45 AM PDT by varmintman
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