[fishtank]

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[I want the USA back]

That’s big! They were really convinced that birds descended from dinosaurs, and now this! Proves to me that their theories are founded on uncertain suppositions.

[Red Badger]

Mammals are mammals.
Reptiles are reptiles.
Birds are birds...............

[Buttons12]

Well...if you’re going to fly, you should lay fewer eggs and get them out of you sooner. The dino-birds that did so, had the advantage.

[marktwain]

“The unwritten side to this metabolism debate is what is truly fascinating. It is actually a war of worldviews. Mainstream, secular science is trying to make dinosaurs into warm-blooded animals because they are trying to make them the evolutionary ancestors of birds. They need dinosaurs to be warm-blooded if they are going to argue ancestry between the two animal groups. It is difficult to have a warm-blooded descendant from a cold-blooded ancestor.2”

That is a silly argument. After all “warm blooded” dinosaurs would have to come from “cold blooded” reptile at some point.

There are numerous arguments about the metabolism of dinosaurs. I find the tooth ring research fascinating indeed. But I see it as pretty much neutral in the evolution/intelligent design/creationist debate.

Comparing bird incubation periods of today, with dinosaur incubation periods of 80 million years ago seems a stretch. One of the main points of evolution is that changes occur over time.

[refermech]

What an image! I used to get a big kick out of finding sea shell fossils. Imagine finding that!

[Snickering Hound]

There was an experiment some years ago where a chicken embryo was modified to develop teeth and a tail and they had a 'dinosaur'.

They never hatched it though.

[C19fan]

The two species being discussed existed during the Late Cretaceous Period. This was way after birds evolved from another group of dinosaurs called the Saurischians; defined based on the structure of the hip. The two species were from the other group of dinosaurs called the Ornithischia; ironically meaning bird hip.

[ZULU]

Idiotic.

The scientific facts as presented are probably accurate. But Dinosaurs were not really birds, they were dinosaurs. But with their feathers, leg structure, air sacs in their bones, and warm blooded traits, they were clearly more like birds than reptiles.

The Institute for Creative Science is totally bogus and is a discredit to Christianity as people with intelligence read this stuff and think all Christians believe this garbage.

I am a Christian and I certainly don’t believe this tripe.

[C19fan]

Augustine of Hippo had to address wackso like these guys in the 5th Century: With the scriptures it is a matter of treating about the faith. For that reason, as I have noted repeatedly, if anyone, not understanding the mode of divine eloquence, should find something about these matters [about the physical universe] in our books, or hear of the same from those books, of such a kind that it seems to be at variance with the perceptions of his own rational faculties, let him believe that these other things are in no way necessary to the admonitions or accounts or predictions of the scriptures. In short, it must be said that our authors knew the truth about the nature of the skies, but it was not the intention of the Spirit of God, who spoke through them, to teach men anything that would not be of use to them for their salvation.

[Moonman62]

Here’s a better article that hasn’t been filtered by the ICR:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4082398/No-wonder-dinosaurs-died-vulnerable-SIX-MONTHS-took-eggs-born.html

[Flick Lives]

Of course dinosaur eggs are nothing like modern bird eggs. It takes only one dinosaur egg to make a three-egg omelet.

[WMarshal]

There could be many reasons that dinosaurs, while in the egg, were cold blooded. How can a animal that weighs multiple tons safely sit on an egg? If they could not safely brood the eggs by covering them with their bodies the eggs were dependent on heat from rotting vegetable matter. Perhaps while in the egg the embryo, while it could maintain its body temperature within reason, had to be able to survive cold snaps, and then when born became fully warm blooded. They should really take a look at the teeth of small, very small dinosaur species, to see if they had the same tooth rings.

[higgmeister]

Dinosaur Eggs Not Bird-Like After All

Excuse me, but an egg is an egg.

[Osage Orange]

Reptiles ain't birds.............

Although some humans are reptiles.................

[BunnySlippers]

Cute! Little dinosaur!