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Move Over, Archaeopteryx
Reedo writes "The clearest evidence ever of the missing link between dinosaurs and birds has been found in a newly discovered "feathered" fossil in northeastern China, claim scientists. The specimen was found embedded in a large slab of rock, in what scientists think was a former lake or pond."
Ruben also questioned the authenticity of the specimen, calling for a CAT scan to determine whether the entire fossil slab comes from the same source.
"There is no reason to CAT scan this specimen, because clearly it's not pieced together," Norell said. "It is preserved on one large slab, and we have both part and counterpart." Part and counterpart refers to both the top and bottom, or both sides, of the fossil slab.
I don't know anything about this kind of stuff, but what would be the downside of going along with a CAT scan? I don't know the costs/risks involved, so it may be an outrageous or dangerous project with regard to the specimen, but common sense seems like it would be best to test it every possible way we know how...considering we don't have many ways to test this stuff.
How about papers in Nature or in Science? There have been several from, for example, Robert Gentry here. He presents a very, very solid case for primordial granites being formed in a matter of seconds or minutes with the Polonium halos found in them only explainable that way. He has issued a very simple challenge to old-earthers, and no one has taken him up on it yet.
I for one (and far more capable people besides myself clearly) am not trying to quote about evolution breaking the second law; a much more cogent approach is to discuss information theory in relation to evolution than the oversimplified second law of thermo.
As for quoting out of context, that's a human failing that all sides of this have done; I don't see how that is strictly and only on one side.
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