Newfound Dinosaur a Transitional Creature

Las Vegas Sun (AP) ^ | May 04, 2005 | Malcolm Ritter

[MeanWestTexan]

Caught in the act of evolution, the odd-looking, feathered dinosaur was becoming more vegetarian, moving away from its meat-eating ancestors.

It had the built-for-speed legs of meat-eaters, but was developing the bigger belly of plant-eaters. It had already lost the serrated teeth needed for tearing flesh. Those were replaced with the smaller, duller vegetarian variety.

[Dimensio]

I suspect that my previous post will be pulled. Dataman doesn't like it when people point out his past lies; he did that once before when I exposed an incident where he behaved in a particularly dishonest fashion.

[VadeRetro]

Ah, seems that my blunt but direct approach to dealing with creationist nonsense is catching on.

It suppose it was a bit blunt, but I can hardly see what else there is to talk about with a response like that one.

[AndrewC]

So let's get those reviewers out of the system and everything will be fine!

You mean like this?

Many scientists reportedly expressed shock and outrage that an article questioning evolution would be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

[righttackle44]

"What was this a transition between? To posit this as a transitional animal is going way beyond the available facts."

Good observation. I thought this was a story about a dinosaur that rides the subway or something.

[Gumlegs]

Many scientists reportedly expressed shock and outrage that an article questioning evolution would be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Sounds like that geometric logic again.

[clack. clack.]

[JeffAtlanta]

Many scientists reportedly expressed shock and outrage that an article questioning evolution would be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Just curious, was the article properly peer-reviewed before appearing in the peer-reviewed scientific journal?

[Gumlegs]

This was a "crossover" model, designed for running down and eating fast moving plants.

It would have to run pretty fast to catch this carrot!

[narby]

Just curious, was the article properly peer-reviewed before appearing in the peer-reviewed scientific journal?

I think that was an incident in a Smithsonian magazine a year or so ago. And the decision to publish it was made by one guy.

[MacDorcha]

So how do we determine that they were related to another species by sight alone? Wouldn't that be like calling a Giant Panda a "bear"?

[Gumlegs]

I think that was an incident in a Smithsonian magazine a year or so ago. And the decision to publish it was made by one guy.

It was a Lite Peer review.

[Thatcherite]

So how do we determine that they were related to another species by sight alone? Wouldn't that be like calling a Giant Panda a "bear"?

No.

[FormerLib]

Oh, you mean men like Stalin, who outlawed the teaching of Darwinian evolution?

No, I mean men like Stalin who was kicked out of the seminary because of his embrace of Darwin's Origin of the Species. LOL!

[lepton]

I eat meat and plants. I wonder what I'm transitioning into....

Do you really want to pull on that string? :)

[FormerLib]

I also happen to believe that evolution and Genesis will square just fine, once all the details are worked out.

And I agree with you on that: religion and science are not enemies but completely different spheres of understanding.

My point is that the sort of folks who despise religion seem to cling to the theory of evolution with a very fervent faith. I can't help but notice that some of the same folks bolstering evolution by mocking Christianity on this thread are the same folks who rail against us Christian barbarians when we pass laws banning "gay marriage." Odd coincidence!

[MacDorcha]

No.

Explain.

[MeanWestTexan]

Not just sight, but bone structure in this case.

You can look at a Panda's bone structure and see that it is not in the bear family. There are lots of little structural details that help out.

To give an idea of how advanced the science is --- you can often tell the race of a human (same species) from bones by little things like sinus cavtity space, femur head relative thickness compared to the knee joint, and lots of pretty obscure details.

Same general concept here.

[DannyTN]

"artist's interpretation"

I believe that dinosaur is a transition fossil between a drunken hobo and a big spending democrat. Although there is much confusion over whether democrats evolved from hobo's or vice versa.

[Thatcherite]

Yet again, someone from the creato side of the argument drags a homosexuality non sequitur into crevo debates. Bizarre how often this happens. Are you guys obsessed?

[Thatcherite]

MeanWestTexan just explained for me.

[hosepipe]

[ Many merely disagree with the way you chose to interepret the Bible. ]

"Many" would have no idea HOW I interpreted the bible, since I didn't say...
Their interpretation of my interpretation would probabl;y be a wrong interpretation anyway..
Given they didn't know my interpretation of their interpretation, mostly..