"Megalancosaurus, in combination with Longisquama, a Lower
Triassic thecodont with featherlike scales and furcula, render
this group (basal archosaurs, including thecodonts) the most
liekly candidate for proximity to avian ancestry."~A. Feduccia
and R. Wild, "Birdlike Characters in the Triassic Archosaur
Megalancosaurus," Naturwissenschaften, 80(1993):564-566
It would appear that the antievolutionary claim is not verified by
observational data.<<<<
Why do you assume they are right and Morris and Parker are wrong. Couldn't
their observations be erroneous and based on their predisposition to
macroevolution? As an example, observations concluded that Neanderthal
man was brutish , sub-human and walked with a stoop until it was
discovered that the speciman they had been examining merely suffered from
rickets. After that the dioramas of museums all over the world had to be
modified to fit the findings. One time it was a geocentric earth that was
considered sacrosanct based on Ptolemaic observations. Galileo had to
recant of his findings or find himself excommunicated. The observations of
one generation easily become shortcomings in the next. In 1860 the French
Academy of Science postulated 51 findings that proved the Bible wrong.
Today not one is accepted. I could go on and on but the point is made.
glenn
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: Glenn Morton <grmorton@waymark.net>
> To: evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: half-evolved feathers
> Date: Saturday, April 04, 1998 2:09 PM
>
> I just ran into the following data which contradicts one of the favorite
> anti-evolutionary claims. The claim is as follows, Morris and Parker
state,
>
>
> "There are no true transitional forms (that is, in the sense of
> forms containing incipient, developing or transitional structures
> - such as half- scales/half feathers, or half-legs/ half wings)
> anywhere among all the billions of known fossil forms." ~Henry M.
> Morris and Gary E. Parker, What is Creation Science?, (El Cajon:
> Master Books, 1987), p. 11
>
> Feduccia and Wild relate:
>
> "Megalancosaurus, in combination with Longisquama, a Lower
> Triassic thecodont with featherlike scales and furcula, render
> this group (basal archosaurs, including thecodonts) the most
> liekly candidate for proximity to avian ancestry."~A. Feduccia
> and R. Wild, "Birdlike Characters in the Triassic Archosaur
> Megalancosaurus," Naturwissenschaften, 80(1993):564-566
>
> It would appear that the antievolutionary claim is not verified by
> observational data.
>
> glenn
>
> Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
>
> and
>
> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm
>