“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.
Agreed. This guy hasn’t thought his argument out very well, nor does he appear to have any background in ecology. Clutch size and gestation period are directly linked to survivability of offspring and the energy required to produce new them.