"For years, Archaeopteryx was considered to be the oldest bird known, but its position has recently been usurped by Protoavis texensis from the Late Triassic Dockum Group of Texas, predating Archaeopteryx by 75 million years (Chatterjee 1987a, 1991, 1994, 1995, in press; Kurochkin 1995; Peters 1994). Identification of Archaeopteryx as a bird is a simple task because Archaeopteryx possesses feathers. "So is Archaeopteryx a transitional species? Apparently not by 75 million years. Of course Dr. Chatterjee may be a charlatan as well seeing as he admits to the difficulty of proving the evolution of birds.
Simple non sequitur. Chatterjee is not proving your point. Worse, I have already quoted Flank in great detail refuting exactly Gish's claim that Archaeopteryx "isn't a transitional" because it had feathers. That is, what about all the reptilian features it has which no modern bird shares?
Furthermore, since the Chinese feathered dinosaurs of the late 90s--specifically Caudipteryx and Protoarchaeopteryx--feathers are no longer considered diagnostic exclusively of birds. Thus, even the lawyerly escape hatch you and Gish are trying to use has been closed for years. Get the latest Scientific American, the one on newstands now, and stop trying to "prove" your point by stumbling through the world oblivious to scientific fact and what has been said to you so far.