Ancient Birds Flew On All Fours

eurekalert ^ | Spet. 22, 2006 | Nick Longrich

[WizWom]

VadeRetro:

WizWom:

Incidents of soft-tissue fossilization - and feathers easily qualify as soft tissue - are extremely rare. People are claiming that in archeopteryx, there has been 80% soft-tissue fossilization! I'm just amazed! Where are our fossilized parrots, cormorants, sparrows and such with feathers? What's that? Oh, there aren't fossils of modern things.

You seem to think faunal succession is a weakness of evolution. I would say it's a real problem for people who don't accept it. Where is that Precambrian rabbit? There wasn't any.

Actually, I think faunal succession was directed. I just don't think that the fossil record is accurately dated or sequenced.

And yes, I meant Mastodon. Survived in North America until "10,000 years ago".
As for the mountains being "cut" by rivers... it doesn't take much of a rise to have a river shift course. Look at the Mississippi valley. Modern stone "cuts" are occurring in places where the valley or canyon is already formed and the rise is miniscule. Pretty pictures of cross-sections like http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/canyon/sfeature/geologygraphic.html leave out a LOT of time - and beg some questions like "how did the canyon not fill up when it was under a "shallow sea"? Coastal places fill with mud to become flat, least in the places I know. Especially if a river dumps into the bay. You see, the "transformed under heat and pressure" sort of makes me wonder just what sort of heat and pressure would be happening to something that was in a canyon. Since, of course, the idea is "the waters been flowing here all this time, and the mountain grew slowly, so it eroded each year."
I really don't care if you believe me, I'm just saying what I believe.

[SunkenCiv]

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