Ping!
It seems strange to me that the bone hunters find so many one of a kind samples that don’t seem to go anywhere.
This was the biggest waste of my time to read. What exactly was the author’s intent? To preach to the choir about what creationists should think? About how to deny the appearance of fossils by saying “Oh - those aren’t feathers (fill in the blank with some other half cocked interpretation).” I’d like, just once - JUST ONCE - to see a scholarly article from any creation organization that actually gives a solid presentation without the standard reactionary BS slathered all over it. GGG, this wasn’t even a good article to stir debate. Anyone reading it would be better off skipping down to the references at the bottom and reading them instead - it’s pretty obvious that the author didn’t bother to read them.
“Every bird living today, from ostriches ... to bald eagles, probably evolved from a Gansus-like ancestor,” Matthew Lamanna of Carnegie Natural History Museum in Pittsburgh told a news conference.
Peter Dodson, professor of anatomy the University of Pennsylvania, who oversaw the research, said, “Gansus is very close to a modern bird and helps fill in the big gap between clearly non-modern birds and the explosion of early birds that marked the Cretaceous period, the final era of the Dinosaur Age.” www.redorbit.com/news/.../fossils...waterfowl/index.html
So what did Gansus evolve from? Could it be that the so-called feathered dinosaurs were just small flightless birds?