It had been established some time ago; that Aves decended from dinosaurs.
This new discovery is in support of that. The problem with those who have
problems with evolution is not unlike that of Galileo's time. Instead its
the microscope rather than the telescope. A repeat in church history.
Because of "Darwin's Doubt", C. S. Lewis (who was a T.E. himself), became
a creationist under Anglican Orthodoxism. Even Darwin was a theologian. I
myself was anti-evolutionist, until reading and experimenting from a book
called "Electronic Experiments For The 21st Century" from Sams Publishers
which included evolution experiments. When I had completed the book, that
finally got me to wake up and smell the coffee.
Also: a friend of mine who is a youth minister at a local church, brought
to my attention that there was "No evening and morning" after God's final
act of creation in Genesis and it is corollated throughout from there. It
along with social and technological evolution would seem to indicate that
evolution is part of God's overall creation plan. And it would seem to be
a perfect fit with St. Thomas Aquina's cosmological argument.
The moral of the story? The more we learn of science, the more we gain in
our view of "The Portrait Of God" and the miracle of His creation. We can
even say that the Bible really is a living truth, since it serves us just
as well in education as it did in our ignorance. A really remarkable work
by any standard. No doubt that God really is the author of it :)
Best Wishes,
William - N6RKY
Adam Crowl wrote:
>
> Hi ASA,
>
> 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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