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Posted on 07/27/2006 8:12:50 AM PDT by Junior
Following her discussion of dinosaurs examined in Part II of this series, Coulter (2006, 219) ventured this:
For over a hundred years, evolutionists proudly pointed to the same sad birdlike animal, Archaeopteryx, as their lone transitional fossil linking dinosaurs and birds. Discovered a few years after Darwin published The Origin of Species, Archaeopteryx was instantly hailed as the transitional species that proved Darwin's theory. This unfortunate creature had wings, feathers, teeth, claws, and a long, bony tail. If it flew at all, it didn't fly very well. Alas, it is now agreed that poor Archaeopteryx is no relation of modern birds. It's just a dead end. It transitioned to nothing.
But could Archaeopteryx be our one example of bad mutations eliminated by natural selection? Archaeopteryx can't fill that role either, because it seems to have no predecessors. The fossils that look like Archaeopteryx lived millions of years after Archaeopteryx, and the fossils that preceded Archaeopteryx look nothing at all like it. The bizarre bird is just an odd creation that came out of nowhere and went nowhere, much like Air America Radio.
Where should one begin with this?
(Excerpt) Read more at talkreason.org ...
Maybe you are thinking of egg teeth? Those are not really teeth. It's just an expression.
LOL!
Naw. I goofed and confused it with the wing claws. I do get a bit daft at times.
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Why would she be so blatant about it? Just to get a rise out of people? She has to be smarter than that!
You know who else has egg teeth? Some marsupials, who never need to use it since they are born live and never have to break through a shell. Further discussion and references.
This fact makes perfectly good sense from the evolutionary point of view, but is hard to reconcile with any sort of *intelligent* design; why make something that's never used, only to have it disappear later? Some engineer!
Except for the teeth and the tail (and a few dozen other features) which *just happen* to resemble dinosaur teeth and tails.
There are experiments which indicate that at least some modern birds have the genes for teeth, but they never need to use them. Another elegant design! (elegant if you're Bill Gates, that is)
As I already posted, Archeopteryx had a reptile-like, not a bird-like keeled sternum. You do know the sternum is the breast bone, I hope? The lungs are controversial, since we do not have fossilized tissue. The feet bones are unfused, like reptiles, not birds. The metacarpals in the wing are free not fused, like reptiles, not birds.
Sound suspiciously like Rep Rosa DeLauro.. :)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/02/10/marriage.penalty/delauro.jpg
She's empowered by her fan base. They will applaud and defend anything she says and does.
Interesting "phenom". ;)
"Knowing the state of Mr. Johnson's nerves, and how easily they were affected, I forbore reading in a new magazine, one day, the death of a Samuel Johnson who expired that month; but my companion snatching up the book, saw it himself, and contrary to my expectation, 'Oh!' said he, 'I hope Death will now be glutted with Sam Johnsons, and let me alone for some time to come; I read of another namesake's departure last week.'" from Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, by Hesther Lynch Piozzi (1786).
"While he forebore reading anything, most of what I know about medieval English religious writing has been shaped by long (and beery) communions with the field’s greatest expert, Vincent Gillespie, whose influence has always impinged on my writing." from author’s commentary, London Literature, 1300 – 1380, by Ralph Hanna, Professor of Palaeography at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in English at Keble College, Oxford.
"Care will sometimes betray to the appearance of negligence. He that is catching opportunities which seldom occur, will suffer those to pass by unregarded, which he expects hourly to return; he that is searching for rare and remote things, will neglect those that are obvious and familiar: thus many of the most common and cursory words have been inserted with little illustration, because in gathering the authorities, I forebore to copy those which I thought likely to occur whenever they were wanted." from Preface to the English Dictionary, by Samuel Johnson (1755)
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It takes a lot of forbearance to deal with some of the people who post here.
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