Posted on 06/15/2006 11:39:26 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Or, to be more pointed, it is clear that they assume there should be skulls, and are therefore surprised not to find them. And skulls are kind of unique bone structures that you couldn't easily confuse for other things.
So, given they must have worked really hard to find the skull bones that they were certain would be there, why don't you see that, for bones that are easily mistaken, they would have "found" the bones to be exactly what they were looking for them to be?
You will find what you are looking for. When you know what the results are you need, there are many examples of otherwise good scientists who manage to FIND those results, whether they are correct or not. Just human nature.
Maybe the early human hunters collected their heads.
Oh wait, there couldn't be humans there, this is before "65 million years ago" when we all KNOW that a cataclysmic event made all those pesky creatures we can't explain disappear.
I loved how they brought that back in with their "we just don't know yet" how these early ducks managed to survive that event to evolve into modern ducks.
Maybe Noahzoa put them on his ark.
Being a theistic evolutionist (i.e., God created all; chose to use evolution), happy to note that Genesis goes water to birds.
Genesis 20-25 or so.
'Near modern' means there are differences between avian diagnostic traits between the two. They were not modern birds but had fewer differences in those traits than a number of other transitional fossils.
"And then there's the little problem of not actually having the bird's head.
Why is that a problem? It would have to be very like a bird's head because of the limitations the bird morphology creates. We have many fossils that span the dino to bird transition and none of them have a fish, amphibian or mammal heads so expecting this fossil to have a bird (or very bird like) head seems quite reasonable.
my opinion is
i think evolution is a interesting theory that has not been proven
i would like some fossil evidence of intermediate speciation
i do not think this research will provide that
Two more gaps.
If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...well...you know.
29+ Evidences for Macroevolution. Yes, macro-evolution.
Ichneumon's legendary post 52. More evidence than you can handle.
Post 661: Ichneumon's stunning post on transitionals.
Plagiarized Errors and Molecular Genetics. Anatomic similarities are confirmed by DNA similarities and copying errors.
Evidence of Evolutionary Transitions. There really is evidence out there.
Macroevolution: Evidence. Great info & links from the U. of Illinois website.
Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ. Yes, transitional fossils exist.
8,000+ papers on vertabrate evolution. National Academy of Sciences.
One gene produces major changes in stickleback fish. Stunning example of evolution.
Fossil whale with legs. Land animal to whale transitional fossil.
NEW Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals. Another transitional fossil.
[Dead link?] Feathered Dinosaurs.
Archaeopteryx. Reptile-to-bird transitional fossil.
Archaeopteryx: FAQS . A true transitional fossil
All About Archaeopteryx .
From: The List-O-Links.
Another service of Darwin Central, the conspiracy that cares.
If they can get a duck to do that, there truly is nothing the ToE cannot explain.
"You will find what you are looking for. When you know what the results are you need, there are many examples of otherwise good scientists who manage to FIND those results, whether they are correct or not. Just human nature."
"In order to obtain a certain result, You must want to obtain precisely that result; if you want to obtain a certain result, you will obtain it .... I need only such people as will obtain the results I need". Trofim Lysenko
Nice to see where you learned your Science. Want to give us some examples of "otherwise good scientists" you mention above?
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Patricks list is multichanneling.
I doubt you will. That said:
Note that the chart on the above page has clickable links. It's a site map and a phylogeny chart.
"350 million year old 'Fish' had a Pelvis."
Tiktaalik, a not-yet-amphibian getting really close 375 million years ago.
Incipient bird characters in a dinosaur.
One small compilation. Illustration excerpted below:
Hundreds of vertebrate examples.
In this post, Ichneumon demonstrates fish-to-elephant in 50 steps of "microevolution" using the previous link as a resource.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1033396/posts?page=442#442
Yours is bigger.
How many organisms that have wings and feathers but no heads do you know?
"So, given they must have worked really hard to find the skull bones that they were certain would be there, why don't you see that, for bones that are easily mistaken, they would have "found" the bones to be exactly what they were looking for them to be?
Which bones would that be? I see nowhere in the news blurb that out of 5 specimens only a few hard to identify (or easily mistaken) bones were found.
"You will find what you are looking for. When you know what the results are you need, there are many examples of otherwise good scientists who manage to FIND those results, whether they are correct or not. Just human nature.
Then again many finds are completely by accident and many that are found where expected to be found are unmistakable.
"Maybe the early human hunters collected their heads.
"Oh wait, there couldn't be humans there, this is before "65 million years ago" when we all KNOW that a cataclysmic event made all those pesky creatures we can't explain disappear.
That cataclysmic event, one of many such events, did not kill off all species. Both birds and mammals faired much better than the reptiles.
"I loved how they brought that back in with their "we just don't know yet" how these early ducks managed to survive that event to evolve into modern ducks.
How is not knowing how the event happened equivalent to not knowing that it happened?
"Maybe Noahzoa put them on his ark.
Who?
Two more gaps found in fossil record. Darwinism in trouble
Maybe just the heads?
Moses refused to stop and ask for directions?
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