Nathan David said:
Napajohn, can you find any examples of scientists using Archeoraptor as evidence for dinosaur to bird evolution after 2000?
Also, I'm still waiting for details on the fraud involving ceolacanths you mentioned, because that one is news to me.
why is 2000 so significant Nathan?..the fact is that NG was told by Storrs Olsen( aleading Bird ornithologist) that the possibility of the data being false was wrong and they blatantly ignored them and made the announcement...a show on Discovery Channel Dec 14 of 2003 borrowed from this concept ..they cited fossils from China are giving validity to the dino-bird evolution...are these "scientists"?.. maybe but the impact of Evolution has been "proven" on the mind of the viewers... There were textbooks and documentaries that I read and saw that mention Java Man and Nebraska Man as valid cases for evolution...is this a conspiracy of scientists?..no because Scientists do not constitute 1 mind and 1 idea..were there intents on pro EVO forces to perpetuate this?..If what Discovery Institute and their proponents seem to suggest, then maybe this so called "conspiracy" to perpetuate "facts" of evolution does exist in Academia. Again I'll cite 1 example of Texas Tech Biology Professor Dr Dini who denied anyone recommendation for not believing in evolution..Students who got A's in his class but disbelieved in evolution were denied on the premise that belief in evolution was vital to understanding science (how did the students get A's then?..they must have cheated if you believe Dini)..another is Dean Kenyon who wrote a book on chemical evolution of life, later had doubts about his own ideas and was disbarred from teaching a science class..There are many examples of pro EVOS pushing the agenda before the "science"...that is why a growing number of honest scientist (not just ID's and creationists) that are coming out and questioning the "facts" of evolution.
With regards to coelacanth..this was shown by evolutionists as an index fossil..a possible transition between fish and tetrapods..that was the claim made by the model..however, what was found was that they not only are not extinct but they are fish that live today..Conspiracy to hide their errors?...maybe but EVOS have a way of explaining their errors (since we know Evolution is fact):
"Coelacanths are known from the fossil record dating back over 360 million years, and peak in abundance about 240 million years ago. Before 1938 they were believed to have gone extinct approximately 80 million years ago,
after mysteriously disappearing from the fossil record
(my comments: maybe there is something wrong in your assumption of the fossil record)
How could the Coelacanth disappear for over 80 million years and then turn up alive and well in the twentieth century?
The answer seems to be that fossil Coelacanths appeared to live in environments favouring fossilisation"
(my comment: did you see that spin?..appeared to live in environments favouring fossilation?..LOL..but they mysteriusly disappear in the fossil record. Huh?)
heres the link if you think I'm making this up
http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/coela.htm
the point is Nathan evolution has a way to be so plastic that any information no matter how contrary supports it as a scientific fact..predict coelacanth as an extinct transition fossil..
ignore the evidence "The local people from Sulawesi were familiar with the Coelacanth and had a name for it, raja laut or 'king of the sea'." (from the same article) and when proven wrong put such a spin that no one questions evolution. thats how it works Nathan