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4-Winged Dinosaur Fossil Found
Anonymous Coward writes "Scientists in China say they have found fossilized remains of a dinosaur with four feathered wings that it probably used for gliding, a find they say strengthens the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. See the story on CNN or BBC with a cool rendering of what it possibly looked like or at NYTimes (yadda)."
Been done.
It's called G.W. Bush...only one of the asses involved is on the wrong end of it's digestive system and is currently spewing crap at it's fellow americans.
"Semper in excretum set alta variant"
Sheesh - how easy is it to get +5 these days?
I call troll!
How falsifiable is the theory of evolution?
For a good long time, mtDNA was considered an accurate dating method for finding common ancestors. It was even heralded as confirmation from a second dating method that the fossil record dates were accurate. But, then we learnt a little more and found out that mtDNA suggested we had an Out of Africa common mother(not the only woman ancestor, just our common mother) about 100,000 years ago. Which didn't fit our current interpretation of human fossil distribution, but it was in keeping with a less popular interpretation, so things were okay. Then we learnt a little more(Parsons in 1997) and found out that mtDNA mutations where around 20 times faster than we thought, placing our common ancestor around 6000 years old. Clearly wrong, so we essientially stopped claiming mtDNA evidence as support for evolution. And yet dates for mtDNA calibrated off expected evolutionary branches are still accepted as more accurate on evolutionary time scales, in spite of numerous studies confirming that observed mtDNA mutations within species are unexplicably higher than those between them. This anomaly is still being investigated, but evolutionists are confident it is nothing to worry about.
The evolution of whales is still a big issue for evolution. Claims from the fossil record were that whales came from Ambulocetus and this was accepted as a good enough answer. But molecular biology shows us that whales are actually more closely related to the hippopotamus. Now, although hippos share alot of morphological features with whales, they only appear in the fossil record 30 million years after whales. So these common morphological features must be the result of convergence, but evolutionists needn't worry.
Now, as much as evolution fits a lot of the evidence, there is also a good quantity of evidence that does not support evolution(above are merely 2 recent examples). Just how much counter evidence for evolution is required for it to be considered 'falsified'. At the very least there should some admission there are reasons to lack confidence in common descent. Note: By evolution I refer to common descent here, not genetic change over time(which is of course a demonstrable fact).