quote:Originally posted by CageTheElephant:
A dinosaur was a specific animal. A bird is a specific animal. Where are the gradual ancestoral examples?
Where is the consistency of that evolution?
We have fossils of dinos. We have birds.
With the randomness of evolution, and even given the "rejecting" of the mutations that weren't "bird friendly" there should be mountains of transitions.
(Unless, of course, the "Great Flood" washed them all away...4500 years ago!)
cage, cage, cage.
there is insurmountable evidence that all large animals (and plants) on the face of the earth were wiped out by a asteroid/comet 65 million years ago. the only things left alive were those animals and plants that could live on the decaying detritus. this happened, cage. we are even "reptty sure" we know where the crater is located (off the yucatan pennensula). the only "dinosaurs" that survived were very small creatures hat looked like miniature t-rex. it is those dinosaurs that speciated into the animals we call "birds" today. when you see a bird, you are actually seeing a living dinosaur.
and, of course, the event allowed small furry mammals (who were able to reaming warm while the earth was went through a long cold spell because of all the crap stirred up by the cosmic event in the atmosphere blocking out the sun) to take over the earth and eventually result in you and me.
inside of every bird is a dinosaur. true story. there is a scientist that recently sequences the genome of a chicken and found the genese that "turn on" scales, long tails and teeth. he plans to stoek a chicken embryo inot developing into a (LINK) pint sized dinosaur. this isn't much of a leap as one might imagine because chickens (and all birds) actually meet all the anatomical definitions we use to define "dinosaur."