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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."
   


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