Ron Chitwood wrote:
In 1860 the French Academy of Science postulated 51 findings that proved
the Bible wrong. Today not one is accepted.
Ron Chitwood wrote:
>
> GM>>>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.<<<<
>
> 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
>
> ----------
> > 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
> >