Theropods:
Theropods.(dinosaurs
grew feathers and turned into birds):
condensed from.Report
Magazine, Alberta Edition, science section, December 6, 1999.
"Nothing could be further
from the truth", says ornithologist
Storrs Olson, curator.(person
in charge of a museum, etc.).of
the prestigious
National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution.(si.edu).in
Washington, D.C.
The article continues:."Olson
is especially 'galled'
by assertions that a wide variety of dinosaurs definitely wore feathers.
He says "This is just a damned lie. There is not one undisputed example
of a dinosaur with feathers.(theropods).
None. The public deserves to know this. Anyone who presents this as fact
is engaging in sensationalistic unsubstantiated tabloid journalism."
Some have reported.(like,.National
Geographic, volume 194, number 1, July, 1998).on
'fossils possessing unusual filaments
that may have been the protofeathers
from which avian.(birds).flight
feathers evolved'. "This is nonsense".says
Olson."Protofeathers
exist only as a theoretical
construct, so that their internal structure is even more hypothetical.".In
addition, where these specimens
have been published in the scientific literature, no one has claimed that
these structures are actually feathers!
Commenting on what some scientists
believe.(National
Geographic, July, 1988, Dinosaurs Take Wing: The Origin of Birds).regarding
the fossil find; that of, whether all the parts came from a single fossil,
Olson said."Apart
from the tail, this specimen is nothing more than an ancient bird."
Some theropod
supporters including Timothy Rowe, director of the vertebrate.paleontology
lab at the University of Texas, Henry Gee of.Nature
Magazine and Mr. Raven, secretary for.National
Geographic's.research
committee, insist the debate is closed.(oh,
this is nice; no more information being accepted, just like the movie.Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed; and so we see closed-minded people not
really being of scientific mind, but rather that of inhibiting.impartial.judgment).
Evolutionists told people
it was the Creationists who have
the closed mind! Evolution is
a religion and a poor one at that because it has produced closed-minded.bigotry
in its adherents.
Evolution evinces.hypocrisy
in presentation of its error filled biases.
Philip Currie, Royal Tyrrell
Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, has also taken a leading role in
promoting the theropod theory.
Currie has no answer for the ornithologist's
rejection of ground up flight development, simply saying."we
know theropods wore feathers and were clearly ground dwellers.".Like
how?."The
problem right now is to decide where exactly is the dividing line between
dinosaurs and birds."....Calgary
Herald, November 4, 1999. Translation: we know it is a fact, we believe
it based on nothing but our theoretical fabrication, while we are looking
for reasons to support our belief.
This is not at all science!
It's fairy tale thinking to say the most and psychologically.maladjusted.reasoning
to say the least. And the search continues for yet another of evolution's
hopeful
monsters.
What a joke that people would
try to validate
their intelligence in such ignominious
ways as to produce conjectures
and even promote
them to sway others toward the huge lie evolution has become. By maintaining
a stance of misdirection
through use of evolution's confounded.reasonings,
simply evinces.maladaptive
thinking.
See the book.The
Origin and Evolution of Birds, 1999, Professor Alan Feduccia, Yale
Press, which opposes the theropod theory. Feduccia states.(regarding
theropods)."National
Geographic's.journalism
is a joke."
Feduccia says."For
one thing, you can't be your own grandmother, meaning archaeopteryx,
which the fossil record shows to be a fully formed bird with clearly defined
feathers, appeared during the Jurassic period,
80 million years before the theropods that are supposed to be the ancestors
of birds. To sustain their theory, theropod supporters have to throw out
the geologic record".he
says.."This is
a hell of a red flag that something is wrong.".He
also argues that the heavy tail, militates
against dinosaurs becoming flying creatures.(not
to mention the differences birds and all species have with their unique
complex systems which had to exist from the beginning, or none of them
would be here).."Combined
with the theropods shortened arms, it's the worst possible body form for
flight", Feduccia says.."The
dinosaur theorists want to believe that flight started from the ground
up. However the surrounding stained areas.(of
the specimen).identified
as protofeathers, have none of the clear feather characteristics found
with archaeopteryx and the hair like filaments that accompany some fossils
come from beneath the skin. I can duplicate the effect by skinning the
tail of a modern lizard."
As for the fossil record,
which shows fully developed birds preceding
theropods by millions of years, Currie replied."The
fossil record is still incomplete. If we get lucky, maybe we will find
a fossil that is the right age."
Olson comments."They've
built their careers on it. They simply can't afford to let any contrary
ideas come out."
University of California
law professor Phillip Johnson says "Theropodists
fight so hard because they see themselves as defending the evolutionary
faith. In recent years the theory of evolution has sustained a lot of damage.
Scientists have learned that the quickest way to build a career is to develop
a theory that seems to solidify evolutionary theory. Even dodgy inferences
are rewarded if the scientific community believes they support the prevailing.paradigm.
The theropod theory is now fast becoming one of the grander scientific
hoaxes of our age, the paleontological equivalent
of cold fusion.
It is certain that when the folly has run its course and has been fully
exposed,.National
Geographic.will
unfortunately play a prominent,
but unenviable role in the book that summarizes the whole sorry episode."
