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Anyone heard of this?
NOVEMBER does not appear to be a very good month for National Geographic magazine. As we write this, it is November 2004. Five years earlier, in November 1999, the editor of National Geographic, Bill Allen, published an article that proved to be one of the worst debacles in the long and storied history of the magazine. It also proved to be one of the worst fiascos in the long and storied history of evolutionary theory.
Mr. Allen published a feature article by Christopher P. Sloan titled Feathers for T. Rex? The article claimed to provide a true missing link in the complex chain that connects dinosaurs to birds (Sloan, 1999, 196[5]:100). The fossil, named Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, was discovered at Xiasanjiazi in Chinas northeastern Liaoning Province, and appeared to have the body of a primitive bird with the teeth and tail of a small, terrestrial dinosaur or dromaeosaur. This definitely fit the criteria of the type of fossil that evolutionists had hoped to find to fill in some of the gaps in their popular dinosaur-to-bird scenario because it manifested the long, bony tail of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs along with the specialized shoulders and chest of birds.
The Associated Press quickly picked up the story, and soon all the major news networks were reporting about this fierce turkey-sized animal with sharp claws and teeth (Recer, 1999). Philip Currie of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada, and one of the scientists involved in the examination of Archaeoraptor for National Geographic, boasted: Were looking at the first dinosaur that was capable of flying (as quoted in Recer, 1999). However, those words barely had left Curries mouth before the questions about this fossil started flying (no pun intended). After a short-lived period of pomp and circumstance, National Geographic suddenly found itself embroiled in one of the hottest scientific controversies in decades.
Continued....http://www.trueorigin.org/ng_ap01.asp
NOVEMBER does not appear to be a very good month for National Geographic magazine. As we write this, it is November 2004. Five years earlier, in November 1999, the editor of National Geographic, Bill Allen, published an article that proved to be one of the worst debacles in the long and storied history of the magazine. It also proved to be one of the worst fiascos in the long and storied history of evolutionary theory.
Mr. Allen published a feature article by Christopher P. Sloan titled Feathers for T. Rex? The article claimed to provide a true missing link in the complex chain that connects dinosaurs to birds (Sloan, 1999, 196[5]:100). The fossil, named Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, was discovered at Xiasanjiazi in Chinas northeastern Liaoning Province, and appeared to have the body of a primitive bird with the teeth and tail of a small, terrestrial dinosaur or dromaeosaur. This definitely fit the criteria of the type of fossil that evolutionists had hoped to find to fill in some of the gaps in their popular dinosaur-to-bird scenario because it manifested the long, bony tail of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs along with the specialized shoulders and chest of birds.
The Associated Press quickly picked up the story, and soon all the major news networks were reporting about this fierce turkey-sized animal with sharp claws and teeth (Recer, 1999). Philip Currie of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada, and one of the scientists involved in the examination of Archaeoraptor for National Geographic, boasted: Were looking at the first dinosaur that was capable of flying (as quoted in Recer, 1999). However, those words barely had left Curries mouth before the questions about this fossil started flying (no pun intended). After a short-lived period of pomp and circumstance, National Geographic suddenly found itself embroiled in one of the hottest scientific controversies in decades.
Continued....http://www.trueorigin.org/ng_ap01.asp
