Re: Glenn's ad hominems FAQ (was half-evolved feather pt 2)

Terry M. Gray (grayt@lamar.colostate.edu)
Mon, 18 May 1998 16:49:40 -0600

>>GM>There are lots of skeletal differences. Some dinosaurs may have had
>>>>feathers.
>
>>SJ>Then why would they not be called birds?
>
>GM>Sigh. This is why I am giving up on you Stephen.

All the rhetoric aside, Steve, why can't dinosaurs have feathers? Or is it
simply a matter of definition that anything with feathers is a bird?
That's no help at all--at that level the debate is merely semantics.

Perhaps birds are dinosaurs....

TG

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