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X: What are you gonna do when they find this one is another fake?
V: What are you gonna do when they don't?

Absolutely nothing - did you read the rest of the post? Feathers on a dinosaur does nothing to prove transition or evolution.

Bats have wings, does that mean they're a transition to or from a bird? No, bats are bats, always have been as far back as they are found in the fossil record.

A duckbill platypus has characteristics of several different kinds of animals, yet it isn't a transition to any of them, it is a platypus.

A feathered dino would just be a featherd dino, no big deal.

X: What are you gonna do when they find this one is another fake?

VR: What are you gonna do when they don't?

Looks like you need to ask that of your own boys:

<< Even within the materialistic paradigm, not all evolutionists believe the dinosaur-to-bird sub-paradigm. This includes Alan Feduccia, a world authority on birds at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and his colleague, University of Kansas paleontologist Larry Martin. Martin commented on the grip of the paradigm, in the context of another 'feathered dinosaur' claim: 'You have to put this into perspective. To the people who wrote the paper, the chicken would be a feathered dinosaur'. >>

<< even some evolutionists, like John Ruben of Oregon State University in Corvallis, are sceptical about the claim of downy feathers. He believes that they are 'just collagen' -- internal connective-tissue fibres left behind when the flesh decayed. Larry Martin pointed out that if the creature really did have feathers, one would expect them to be preserved under the same conditions that could preserve down, which is much more fragile. >>

<< Dr Storrs Olson, Curator of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, has previously been scathing about overzealous bird-dino claims in both Nature and National Geographic. Similarly, he says he cannot discern feathers or feathery structures in this latest discovery, and advises caution against the possibilities that the feathers come from a different source. This caution is reasonable—he was one of the first to smell a rat about the Archaeoraptor fraud. >>