YOU:Well, isn't this fiendish? I say "Yes," referring to the jumbled and squashed pile of bones that is Protoavis, and you pounce to throw out the entire body of science since 1859. Cute!
In truth I said or implied none of that. You seemed to sense it coming, though, no doubt because it is a fairly glaring problem for you.
I don't think you sensed this one coming: What is the objective uniform criteria for determining whether a fossil is conclusive evidence or not?
Answer: If it fits the biases of the evolutionary model, it is objective and conclusive. If not, it obviously cannot be conclusive.
What are the objective uniform criteria for spotting the activities of the International Evo Conspiracy to suppress the Evidence Against Evolution? Is Protoavis "good" evidence? Is the preponderance of opinion lying when they call Chatterjee's announcement a stretch too far?
Creationists tend to love Feduccia. Let's check in on a Protoavis article that quotes him.
A. Feduccia: "Calling this the original bird is irresponsible." (1)Maybe he's sold out?
There's a highly controversial fossil in the bird ancestry story. Protoavis is known from a handful of bony fragments collected from 200 million-year-old rocks in Texas. At this time the dinosaurs were just getting started and it's 50 million years before Archaeopteryx. Protoavis does have some bird-like features, but nothing that an early theropod dinosaur shouldn't have. Further, there seems to be a strong possibility that the fossils described as a single skeleton may actually belong to two or more individuals and possibly two or more species! The material is too fragmentary and ambiguous to work with so, until better material is found, most palaeontologists have set Protoavis aside.At best, for you, it's trending avian but only your creatinist pamphlets would call it a "modern bird." At best, for you, it's a far messier bone-pile than the typical fossil you jeer as another Piltdown fake or Nebraska Man misinterpretation.
But the Lord seems to need this one, so this one is good data that the evos are suppressing?