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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/27/2008 : 03:30:42
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What researches Pickleherring, are you currently pursuing? Are you investigating the mysteries of The Burgess Shales to accurately demonstrate to the unlettered that the Pre-Cambrian was a huge belch in a 6,000 year time span rather than a mere hiccup in a 4.5 billion one? Or do you studiously work in your laboratory, testing chemical hypothesis concerning the origins of life? Are you cleaning fossils and prepping them for study? Or might you have recently returned from the expedition that discovered those fossils?
What?! None of these things, you say? Do you tell me that the only researches that concern you is finding the works of others to sneer at? Oh Pickleherring, have you no ethics; no shame? Does not the blatant hypocrisy of your position give you pause at all? “New Spark in Classic Experiments”
Zzzzzap! All it took was a helping of primordial stew and a bolt of lightning—or perhaps the hot gases of an angry volcano—and, voilà, you've got life.
It has now been more than half a century since the famous (or infamous) Miller–Urey experiments, which many still claim are evidence for an atheistic origin of life.
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Atheism, my dear Pickleherring, has nothing to do with science, nor does any sort of a religious/non-religious belief. I must admit, though, that you hurl the red herring with truly Olympic-class style and grace. Well done!
But, enough of mutual loathing; let us now look at the feathered creature you judge and dismiss without ever seeing the specimen nor corresponding with those who have: Paleontologist Fucheng Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explained, “Although possessing many derived features seen in birds . . . [Epidexipteryx] show[s] some striking features . . . not known in any other theropod [dinosaur].”
In other words, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that this fossil was some form of bird, not a dinosaur, and the only reason it has been labeled a dinosaur is its location in the fossil record. So much for evolutionists following the evidence wherever it leads! Epidexipteryxmay have been a bird that was either designed to be flightless or was flightless because its lost it flight feathers, possibly due to a mutation (unless they weren't fossilized for other reasons), and was toothed like other extinct birds found in the fossil record. Perhaps this specimen was even kept by pre-Flood humans as a show bird, its flight feathers plucked away to keep it from flying off. That unprovable story seems more probable than this “feathered dinosaur” claim!
Thus, we have to label this a feathered “dinosaur”!
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Do we now? Pickleherring, your statement fails, condemned by itself as you wave your hands and state that it is "unprovable," and brand yourself, yet again, a nincompoop.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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So I must ask:
