On Mon, 18 May 1998 16:49:40 -0600, Terry M. Gray wrote:
Good to hear from you again Terry! Do you know when the Reflector
archive will be fixed? I tried your archive at Colorado State but it did
not seem to be up to date.
>>>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.
TG>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....
I never said that dinosaurs *can't* have feathers. Personally I have no
problem with God creating a bird out of a dinosaur or any other reptile.
My question was, what would a dinosaur with feathers be called if not
a bird?
Steve
"Evolution is the greatest engine of atheism ever invented."
--- Prof. William Provine, Cornell University.
http://fp.bio.utk.edu/darwin/1998/slides_view/Slide_7.html
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