[go_W_go]

"Methinks you're reading stuff into this that ain't there"

As noted in the highly regarded journal "Science": "Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, IN A MODERN SENSE A BIRD"

That is a direct quote from Mr. Feduccia, in Science #259 (1993), is also paraphrased from Gish, 133.

Thank you...

[Junior]

Reread your quote. He's not saying archaeopteryx was a modern bird. He's saying it can't add to the knowledge base on the development of flight because it could already fly.

Remember, the writer thinks birds split from the dinosaur line much further back than other researchers in the field do. Archaeopteryx, for him, would be a much more advanced animal along the bird line than other paleontologists believe. The writer is not saying archy was a modern bird, however, only that it was modern in that it had well-developed feathers and could fly.