well then, that's that.
Oct. 29th, 2002 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lantairvleaI have my sources down, now I need to shuttle over to Mom's computer and start rapid-fire print-outs! Yay! Shower felt good and I shall hopefully get to bed before 11, but, knowing me, I won't because I'll be to engrossed in doing this to care what time I get my sleep!
So off to pull out a mass of links and papers and attack them with highlighters and pens!
Something I find rather humerous: The christian sites that are bashing the dinosaur-bird theory seem to be stuck on the reptile thing. "Birds couldn't have evolved from reptiles because (list something." Now, let me ask this, who's to say that dinosaurs were reptiles? EH?! Dinosaurs (some at least) had hollow bones, do we see any other "reptiles" with such a feature? Didn't think so. Also they keep on bringing up the scale and feather thing. I believe that Bakker noted that Feathers ARE modified Scales. Thusly I note the scaly feet found on birds. They keep on stressing the whole "intermediate form" thing as if there'd have to be a fossil that showed a theropod's hand TURNING INTO a wing. There are such things as genetic jumps are there not? Something happens, oops! These DNA sequences suddenly got thrown off balance, wonder what'll happen? And WALLA! You've got something new and bizarre and, oddly enough, effective! They also seem to conveniently forget genetic throwbacks altogether. Like the fact that Theropods have foreshortened front limbs. If "evolution" or random acts God as it could be named could foreshorten these limbs, by golly they can lengthen them too!
I need to look up and find some sources that say what types of lungs theropod dinosaurs had. Because I think Bakker proclaimed them to be avian-style as they had hollow bones placed in the manner of birds. Yet other people say they were reptilian merely because they think they had a diaphragm, or however you spell it, skrewy english.
um, yes, printing things out, u-huh *zips off.*
So off to pull out a mass of links and papers and attack them with highlighters and pens!
Something I find rather humerous: The christian sites that are bashing the dinosaur-bird theory seem to be stuck on the reptile thing. "Birds couldn't have evolved from reptiles because (list something." Now, let me ask this, who's to say that dinosaurs were reptiles? EH?! Dinosaurs (some at least) had hollow bones, do we see any other "reptiles" with such a feature? Didn't think so. Also they keep on bringing up the scale and feather thing. I believe that Bakker noted that Feathers ARE modified Scales. Thusly I note the scaly feet found on birds. They keep on stressing the whole "intermediate form" thing as if there'd have to be a fossil that showed a theropod's hand TURNING INTO a wing. There are such things as genetic jumps are there not? Something happens, oops! These DNA sequences suddenly got thrown off balance, wonder what'll happen? And WALLA! You've got something new and bizarre and, oddly enough, effective! They also seem to conveniently forget genetic throwbacks altogether. Like the fact that Theropods have foreshortened front limbs. If "evolution" or random acts God as it could be named could foreshorten these limbs, by golly they can lengthen them too!
I need to look up and find some sources that say what types of lungs theropod dinosaurs had. Because I think Bakker proclaimed them to be avian-style as they had hollow bones placed in the manner of birds. Yet other people say they were reptilian merely because they think they had a diaphragm, or however you spell it, skrewy english.
um, yes, printing things out, u-huh *zips off.*
