[Ol' Sparky]

Larry Martin is one of the most accomplished paleontologists in the nation. But, when you have a theory with no evidence, there likely isn't going to be a consistent spin.

“You have to put this in proper perspective,” Martin says. “To the people who wrote the paper, the chicken would be a feathered dinosaur.”

What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.

[VadeRetro]

C. Sanctus ain't no chicken.

That's not a hind leg. That's a front leg / wing.

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Have you figured out yet that C. sanctus is the total refutation of Perloff's (and your) dumb-dumbism:

Likewise, the intermediate creature whose limb was half leg, half wing, would fare poorly -- it couldn't fly, nor walk well. Natural selection would eliminate it without a second thought.

Do you even have the wit or the integrity to be embarrassed?

[VadeRetro]

“You have to put this in proper perspective,” Martin says. “To the people who wrote the paper, the chicken would be a feathered dinosaur.”

Here's an example in this article from August 2000 of how the tide has been turning in favor of the dinosaur-bird link since Martin spouted off in 1995.

"Right now, the thing that is closest to what we see in the bones of birds is in the bones of coelurosaurs," said John Rensberger, a UW geological sciences professor and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke museum.

. . .

"It doesn't necessarily prove that birds had to derive from dinosaurs," Rensberger said of the new research. "But, at least from the data we've seen, that appears to be a logical conclusion."

Junior linked this for you earlier but you seem to still be unaware.