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To: muawiyah
Why would anyone believe that no bird today grows teeth?

Because today it requires tricks and mutations, whereas all archaeopteryx had them as a matter of course. Even creationists manage to learn that chickens have beaks and not teeth.

Moreover, the fact that it is at all possible to "trick" a chicken into growing teeth is another classic evidence of evolution. Chickens have teeth in their ancestry: it's written in their genes as well as in their fossil history. Stephen Jay Gould even titled one of his books Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes.

381 posted on 09/14/2006 4:53:32 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist

It doesn't require "mutations" at all. The birds all have the genes to grow teeth. You remove the DNA methylation that prevents them from being expressed and you'll get a bird with a mouthful of teeth.


385 posted on 09/14/2006 5:36:06 AM PDT by muawiyah
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