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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (89451)	8/16/2018 11:36:43 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356072

Kill me to open my mind? Not really. But, like with creationism, if you are going to challenge accepted science, you better have some good data. Which is lacking in this case. Finding some seeming contradictions and pumping them up doesn't really disprove anything. In the early 1980s, the creationists claimed that birds were proof that evolution doesn't happen. That any intermediate forms would be less well adapted than the starting ones. But that was before those fossils were found in China. That was when we realized that at least some dinosaurs were feathered. And, given feathers, a smaller dinosaur, with a longish body, could get bursts of speed by running on two legs, flapping their forelegs and hopping. The whole running on two legs and hopping is a strategy that some modern, unfeathered lizards use. Similar ones with feathers were found in China. And suddenly, there was a pathway to birds...