Moving keyboard? You have one of those, too?
Cagey, this issue is settled. Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs. You could say they are dinosaurs.
http://www.bsu.edu/web/00cyfis...current_theories.htm
That's just one reference. There are thousands more. Just look them up.
As surely as the Earth orbits the Sun, evolution is a fact, and avian evolution from dinosaurs is part of that fact.
You've seen a chicken's foot. It's covered with scales. The feathers are mutated scales, and the development of feathers is well documented. The scales are one of the physiological similarities between the dinosaurs and modern birds.
It's an interesting speculation that dinosaurs had feathers. Imagine if T Rex had peac0ck plumage!
Cagey, if you doubt evolution, you're fighting for a lost cause.
nsns