From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)   
      
   In article <7bqtc8lg754bji48n6bsdnv9k44u93ang8@4ax.com>,   
   John Fleming   wrote:   
   >[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:54:02 -0800 (PST), while chained to a   
   >desk in the scriptorium solar penguin  wrote:   
   >> $The Doctor wrote:   
   >> $> In article <289sc8h1emhicfj9sor756d6fes8uji3v3@4ax.com>,   
   >> $> John Fleming   wrote:   
   >> $> >[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:45:58 -0800 (PST), while chained to a   
   >> $> >desk in the scriptorium solar penguin  wrote:   
   >> $> >> $The Doctor wrote:   
   >> $> >> $> In article ,   
   >> $> >> $> solar penguin   wrote:   
   >> $> >> $> >The Doctor wrote:   
   >   
   >> $> >> $> crows descended from dinosaurs?  Robins? Magpies?   
   >> $> >> $> --   
   >> $> >> $   
   >> $> >> $Yes, that's right.   
   >> $> >> $   
   >> $> >> $Have you got _any_ evidence that they didn't?   
   >> $> >   
   >> $> >Of course he doesn't.   
   >> $> >   
   >> $> >The closest he probably gets was a trip to the Royal Alberta Museum,   
   >> $> >where they have a T. Rex and a Stegasaurus on display.   
   >> $> >   
   >> $> >Of course, those are at the larger end of the dinosaur spectrum of   
   >> $> >sizes, and it doesn't cross his mind there are some really small   
   >> $> >dinosaurs as well.   
   >> $> >   
   >> $> >Oh, and while he is trying to explain Archaeopteryx, he'll also have   
   >> $> >to explain the quill knobs on a velociraptor skeleton found in   
   >> $> >Mongolia.   
   >> $>   
   >> $> How about a Pterodatyl turning into a bird?   
   >> $>   
   >> $> A T.Rex into a bird?  LOL!!   
   >> $   
   >> $No, of course not a T. Rex into a bird.  That would be silly.  The T.   
   >> $Rex didn't evolve until near the end of the dinosaurs' era, after the   
   >> $first birds had _already_ evolved.   
   >> $   
   >> $Maybe you really _do_ think time goes backwards...?   
   >   
   >Plus he jupmps onto a single example, quietly ignoring the fact   
   >dinosaurs were a highly diverse group of animals--probably just as   
   >diverse as modern mammals.  (BTW, doctor, pterodactyls are not   
   >dinosaurs, dinosaurs being limitied to saurischia and ornithischia,   
   >whereas pterodactyls belong to the pterosaurs.)   
   >   
   >And let's face it, modern mammals are a pretty diverse lot. Everything   
   >from whales to hippopotami to mice to humans to wombats.   
   >   
   >Pointing at T. Rex and saying there is no link between dinosaurs and   
   >birds is like pointing at a polar bear and saying there is no way   
   >mammals could evolve flight--ignoring the fact that an estimated one   
   >fifth of mammal species are bats.   
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