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Did All Dinosaurs have Feathers?

Posted July 03, 2012 8:39 AM

From TG Daily:

A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered - and it's not closely related to birds, indicating that feathers may have been far more prevalent amongst dinosaurs than previously believed.

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07/03/2012 11:14 AM

Not the ones off stage, and they were happily waiting for their private dance.

Sorry, couldn't open the link.

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07/03/2012 11:18 AM

But in all seriousness, here's a working link to the article

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/64439-did-all-dinosaurs-have-feathers

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07/03/2012 3:51 PM

Thank you, I wander if the Chinese dragons and Mayan sculptures of Quetzalcoatl were inspired by early findings of this nature .

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07/03/2012 11:45 PM

I doubt the "Intelligent Designer" would have done it that way.

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07/05/2012 12:31 PM

If the evidence of feathers is there, God, the "Intelligent Designer" did do it that way. The only difference would be the interpretation and conclusions drawn after looking at the data. Evolutionists would try and connect some sort of imaginary dots and the Creationists would just accept the fact that that is the way the animal was designed to start with.

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07/04/2012 7:51 AM

Horsefeathers!

Oh, wait a sec...

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