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   On Sat, 9 May 2015 09:46:50 -0400, "M.I.Wakefield"  wrote:   
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   >"David Johnston"  wrote in message news:mik69r$ki0$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   >> On 5/8/2015 8:03 PM, mur wrote:   
   >   
   >> >      There are countless examples of course, but one of the most obvious   
   >> > is that   
   >> > if it happened entirely by itself there should always be examples of   
   >> > reptiles in   
   >> > transition stages to become birds just as there must have been in the   
   >> > past.   
   >   
   >First off, dinosaurs weren't reptiles ...   
      
       What about turtles and crocodiles etc?   
      
   >there's evidence that they,   
   >particularly the line that gave rise to birds, were warm blooded.   
      
       Please present verifiable evidence like atheists demand for the possibility   
   of God's existence.   
      
   >Secondly, every species is a "transition stage" ... we may be able to see   
   >where they came from, but we can't predict where they're going.   
   >   
   >> Uh-hunh.  Why would you expect them to survive the mass extinctions that   
   >> got almost everything else on land?   
   >   
   >> > Also   
   >> > there should be more fossil examples than just a few fossils of   
   >> > archaeopteryx.   
   >   
   >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils#Dinosaurs_to_birds   
      
       So far that's not enough for me to develop faith that evolution had no   
   help,   
   but if you think it should be enough then please try to support the idea.   
      
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