"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message news:<c1q3ja$muf$0@pita.alt.net>...
> So is this fossil a bird or is it a reptile?
>
Oh I see. We are going to get another standard creationist argument. I
now have to say either 'It's a bird', in which case you'll say 'Then
it can't be a reptile' or I say 'It's a reptile' in which case you say
'Then it can't be a bird'.
Using this mode of argument, there can never be any intermediate
between birds and reptiles. But it is not a very good argument, as
even a five year old child can tell.
Archaeopteryx is classified as a bird. It has anatomical features that
it shares with modern birds, and anatomical features it shares with
dinosaurs.
> If hoatzins don't have bony tails now, then that's not a big issue. Within
> cats and dogs, tail length differs greatly.
>
How about birds? Ever seen a bird with a long, bony tail? Modern birds
have no bony tail. None of them. They have a structure called a
pygidium. No modern bird has teeth. They have beaks, unlike
Archeopteryx. Look out of your window and see if you can spot any
birds with teeth.
> Kindly explain to me the evolution of the feather,
There is a good series of feathered dinosaurs which demonstrate the
evolution of feathers very well. I would guess that a simple web
search would tell you all about it. I can't be bothered to do it for
you, as you won't take any notice of it no matter how good the
evidence.
>and what the drivers were
> behind that evolution when skin flaps were fine for pteradactyls and still
> are for chiroptera, which handle flight better than many birds.
Completely and utterly irrelevant. Evolution is not predictable, any
more than the long-term movements of the planets, or the weather are
predictable.
>
>
Uncle Davey
Once again, you are trying to argue from ignorance. I don't think
anyone is in the slightest bit persuaded.
RF
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