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To: Cowgirl
Uh, did you happen to notice that you went, in one message to the very next, from claiming (via your cuts and pastes) that Archaeopteryx isn't transitional between reptiles and birds because it's just a bird, to claiming that it isn't transitional because it's just a reptile with hoaxed feathers?

Remember a transitional form should be difficult to easily classify as either "A" or "B" because it has a mix of features from both groups, and/or because it has features that are intermediate in form between those typical of either group (both things are true of Archaeopteryx). You've illustrated the thoroughly intermediate character of Archaeopteryx beautifully because -- to the extent you are held responsible for your references -- you yourself can't decide whether it's a bird or a dinosaur!

92 posted on 04/06/2004 12:35:48 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
The point is a fake is a fake no matter what you want to call it.
103 posted on 04/06/2004 10:30:14 AM PDT by Cowgirl
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