Notice the very clever title on AIG!
Gotta hand it to them, their title-game is strong.
Gotta hand it to them, their title-game is strong.
AstroAg17 said:
It's never "I read this here and it says X". They always try to pass it off as their own thought even when you ask. Like when oldarmy1 (maybe?) claimed to have PhD's in math and physics.
TampaBayAg said:AstroAg17 said:
Can you walk me through the thought process that lead to your post?
Did you come up with it or did you read it somewhere else? Do you honestly think that the very existence of unfused caudal vertebrae was overlooked by the 10+ educated people who wrote the paper, as well as the peer reviewers? Do you think that if only they had TampaBayAg on their research team, they might have noticed the most basic fact about the vertebrae that they talk about for several pages?
I'd wager that you simply copied it from some website that caters to people like you. The reason it's not classified as a bird is explicitly stated in the paper that you probably didn't read. It's not surprising that it's birdlike anyway, since it's closely related to the ancestors of birds.
The dino-to-bird link is very much unproven and very much needed by proponents of the evolutionary theory. While this specimen is new, the premise is not. I'm just an avian geek and nothing more. I'll let you scientists (aka, anyone who's taken a semester of BIOL 214) return to your enlightenment session. Have a great weekend!
Well, come on, if birds get marijuana pollen on their doughnuts, they DO become too lazy to fly!Dr. Watson said:
I'm all in favor of a Texags hall-of-fame that saves these threads and keeps them accessible for readers. That was a jaw-dropping classic.
Marco Esquandolas said:
Be honest, Tampa. Did you actually read the paper? Or did you go straight to AIG so that you wouldn't have to challenge your brain by reading actual science by actual scientists?
He's an elected fellow to the American Ornithologists' Union and a continuing contributor to both the The Open Ornithology Journal and pee-reviewed Ornithological Society journal (The Auk).Dr. Watson said:
There are major, major problems with Feduccia's work and he's taken seriously by almost no one in ornithology or paleontology.
TampaBayAg said:He's an elected fellow to the American Ornithologists' Union and a continuing contributor to both the The Open Ornithology Journal and pee-reviewed Ornithological Society journal (The Auk).Dr. Watson said:
There are major, major problems with Feduccia's work and he's taken seriously by almost no one in ornithology or paleontology.
dargscisyhp said:
Since we're on the subject, can anyone explain what distinguishes a dinosaur from a prehistoric bird, or at least explain what the most common system is for distinguishing the two?