Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

EurekAlert (AAAS) ^ | 10 October 2005 | David Greenberg

[null and void]

Good one.

[mlc9852]

Well, you apparently did or you wouldn't be responding to me.

[theFIRMbss]

>How do I get invited to one of THOSE parties?

Ostrich feathers are
a secret symbol of the
Creation elite!

[furball4paws]

empty

[mlc9852]

I could respond in kind but that would make us both look childish.

[VadeRetro]

Ostrich, yes. The symbolism is obvious. ;)

[js1138]

If your gun jams you don't need birth control.

[narby]

I saw a RoadRunner bird yesterday at close range. Those things look for all the world like you'd think a theropod dino would. Even has a nice little crown on its head like some dinos. They even *move* like you'd think a dino would.

Course I haven't really studied this stuff, so I'm probably wrong somewhere. It is interesting though.

[Junior]

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1. 2005-10-10 Did feathered dinosaurs exist?
2. 2005-10-10 Intelligent design's big ambitions - Advocates want much more than textbooks.
3. 2005-10-09 Evolution of faith
4. 2005-10-09 Gov. Bush [Florida] oddly evasive on evolution
5. 2005-10-09 Putting Relativity To The Test, NASA's Gravity Probe B To Reveale If Einstein Was Right
6. 2005-10-08 Famed author takes on Kansas: Rushdie bemoans role of religion in public life
7. 2005-10-07 Descent of Man in Dover (Why acceptance of ID not inevitable.)
8. 2005-10-07 Discovery Institute's “Wedge Document” How Darwinist Paranoia Fueled an Urban Legend
9. 2005-10-07 Dover, PA Evolution Trial [daily thread for 07 Oct]
10. 2005-10-07 Evolution and intelligent design Life is a cup of tea
11. 2005-10-07 Let 'intelligent design' and science rumble
12. 2005-10-07 The Las Cruces Fossil Human Footprints
13. 2005-10-07 The Map that Changed the World [in 1815]
14. 2005-10-07 University of Idaho Bans All Alternatives to Evolution
15. 2005-10-07 Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win
16. 2005-10-06 Faith, Science and the Persecution of Richard Sternberg
17. 2005-10-06 Scientist defends Big Bang and God
18. 2005-10-06 Seeing Creation and Evolution in Grand Canyon (quote below is the most significant item)
19. 2005-10-06 The Mouth of the South Side (Carl Everett on Gays, Evolution, Bush and Kanye West)
20. 2005-10-06 U of I president:teach only evolution in {University}science classes (Connection to PA court fight)
21. 2005-10-06 Witness: 'Design' Replaced 'Creation'
22. 2005-10-06 Witness: Movement's roots in creationism (Dover trial 10/6/05)
23. 2005-10-05 Professor, teachers to testify in intelligent-design trial [Dover, PA, 05 Oct]
24. 2005-10-05 Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
25. 2005-10-05 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 goes to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock
26. 2005-10-04 A space station view on giant lightning (May play role in global warming!)
27. 2005-10-04 Ancient Peruvians Loved Their Spuds
28. 2005-10-04 "Cardinal backs evolution and ""intelligent design"""
29. 2005-10-04 Potatoes came from Peru, US study finds
30. 2005-10-04 Space Scientists Seek Sprites, Elves and Jets
31. 2005-10-04 Spider fooled into sex by drop-dead male
32. 2005-10-04 The Bottom Line: Darwinism Promotes Social Disintegration
33. 2005-10-04 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 is awarded to Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch

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[VadeRetro]

But does it go "Meep! Meep!"??

[VadeRetro]

[Sputters!] The idea of the gag is that the call is effective by simulating the ruttish grunt of the cow in oestrus... Works for me, I know that.

[js1138]

The joke has potential, but it seems to suffer from conceptual problems.

[VadeRetro]

OK, how about, "On this day in history, Hannibal of Carthage crossed the Alps with elephants...

... and got mountains that never forget."

[Republic of Texas]

Of course they exist. I saw Elton John on TV just recently!

[skinkinthegrass]

TK's thrive lurking under bridges in the fetid swamps of Massachusetts waiting for prey to fall into the water...TKs can also be found at watering holes generation after generation seemingly without end.

I sure wish, Tedrex the Hut, would've found Helen Thomas under that bridge.

[js1138]

I can't top that.

[RightWingAtheist]

Yes, crocodilians are the closest living relatives of today's birds. Crocodiles evolved directly from thecodont ancestors, as did dinosaurs. The dispute over avian evolution stems over whether birds evolved directly from dinosaurs, or if they simply share a common thecodont ancestor.

[RightWingAtheist]

Meep?

[Stone Mountain]

Modernman is gone? Damn. What happened?

[VadeRetro]

And did you catch the naughty double-entendre in "Works for me, I know that?" So-fisty-cated!!