Posted by Hunter [12.211.199.55 - 12-211-199-55.client.attbi.com] on 10 March 2003 at 20.11.41 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Re: [atheistvschristian] Darwinism’s Fine Feathered Friends—A Matter of Interpretation posted by Gremlin on 10 March 2003 at 19.53.19 ZuluTime:

I've got a couple of questions....

1. Is Archaeopteryx really the 'oldest known bird'?
     2. Do we have anything like this guy is asking for? Something that's technically the 'transition' between 'scales' and 'feathers'?
     3. When did birds first show up?
     4. Here's a difficult one. What's the 'average size' of a theropod? This guy's making it out to sound like they were all fairly large, or something....

Nevermind. Reading it over again and again so I can ask questions is kinda making me dumb. Especially that 'final point' thing. I keep expecting him to stray even more off topic and scream about how "T-Rex ate carrots" or was a scavenger or something.

Which, by the way -- way off topic -- but I watched that thing on Animal Planet last night. The 'giant' whatever thing. It was rather horrible, as anything with Corwin in it is bound to be. He was promoting the Tyrannosaur-scavenger thing, the CG was rather tragic...the best part was probably the bit where it looks like they /trained/ an aligator to eat a golfball, because I don't really think a 6' 'gator would go to that much trouble -- crawling out of a pond, and OVER to the golfball, turning its head sideways, and carefully picking it up -- for something the size of a golfball.

~Hunter