Birds today are thought to be closely related to dinosaurs. Indeed some say that birds are dinosaurs. The link between them since 1861 has been the fossil of a creature called Archeopteryx, six specimens of which were found and which looks like a dinosaur with flight feathers. Recently a spate of fossils of early birds has been reported, especially in China, which have added considerably to our understanding. Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man by Dr Michael D Magee.
The energy cost did not materially differ for two legged and for four legged locomotion, but, for the same energy output, animals could move much faster on four limbs than they could on two.
Who Lies Sleeping?
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Birds today are thought to be closely related to dinosaurs. Indeed some say that birds are dinosaurs. The link between them since 1861 has been the fossil of a creature called Archeopteryx, six specimens of which were found and which looks like a dinosaur with flight feathers. Recently a spate of fossils of early birds has been reported, especially in China, which have added considerably to our understanding. Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man by Dr Michael D Magee.
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Raymond Spier suggests some meaningful questions to be addressed by IDers. Is it intelligent for a designer to have to eliminate 70 per cent of existing species 250 million years ago, and 90 per cent 65 million years ago? Is it intelligent to design humans as a viciously competitive species, given to the genocidal elimination of neighbouring or endogenous sects? Is it intelligent to design humans who believe different gods, each of which they imagine is the one and true god? Natural selection has not yet answered all the questions that face it, but research will answer these questions. For ID, the very questions it invites make a nonsense of it. Steve Kirk adds that human knees and backs are hardly fit for purpose, and would leave any designer open to litigation on those grounds.
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