Chinese researchers, in the latest issue of "Nature" [27 May 1999], report a
new find of a dinosaur with filamentary integument i.e. pre-feathers, just
like _Sinosauropteryx_. These filaments are clearly covering the animal
rather than deceptively seeming like sub-dermal structures, as in the case
of _Sinosauropteryx_, and the individual filaments seem to have hollow cores
like true feathers. They're obviously not flight feathers, but they are a
possible preadaptation ready for transformation in gliding arboreal dinos or
leaping cursorial dinos.
The question for YECs and other sceptics of evolution is "why did God bother
making all these curious creatures that cross the boundaries of supposed
'kinds'?" It all so naturally lends itself to an evolutionary interpretation
so I wonder why God didn't contrive the world to be less confusing - "he is
not a God of confusion" - and less misleading, since his nature and power
are supposed to be clearly seen in Nature. None of it makes sense unless
evolution is true. Else God is a bigger liar than Satan, or this world has
evolved.
Adam
Or so it seems to me
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