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> From: Thom Quinn <swo@execpc.com>
> To: Ron Chitwood <chitw@flash.net>; evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: half-evolved feathers
> Date: Saturday, April 04, 1998 9:46 PM
>
> I've heard this is not true and all 51 are still accepted because the
> Bible is the work of men, not God. Do you know what they are?
>
>
> 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
> >
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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
> > >