[js1138]

The point is a fake is a fake no matter what you want to call it.

The important point is that creationist argument is hit and run. You might ask a legitimate question -- and the possibility of forgery is legitimate -- but then you run away before anyone can answer. sometimes the answers are hard to find and take time.

Here's a link to some answers.

Here's something to chew on:

...the Eichstatt specimen has clear feather impressions (Wellnhofer 1974) and the Maxberg specimen has impressions in which the structure of the feather is discernable as being typical of that in modern birds (de Beer 1954; von Heller 1959; Charig et al. 1986). Not only that, the feathers of the Maxberg specimen clearly refute any possibility of forgery because they continue under the bones of the skeleton and are overlain by dendrites ...

[balrog666]

Am I the only one here reminded of the "Vancome lady" from Mad-TV chanting "la-la-la-la" while holding her fingers in her ears?

[Cowgirl]

The feathers of Archaeopteryx suggest that the creature was a skillful flyer or glider, at the same time that its skeleton suggests otherwise. Archaeopteryx is a mosaic of characteristics almost impossible to interpret, let alone to base evolutionary theories on!"—W. Frair and P. Davis, Case for Creation (1983), p. 81