nemesis_juggernaut writes:
So, we have here an avowed evolutionist who tacitly implies that he does not agree with the tenets of creationism, but simply reports the plain facts concerning Theropod lineage in modern avian. This flies in the face of everything we were taught in primary school as well as virtually every college biology textbook in the world.
No, you have here an avowed evolutionist who tacitly implies that he does not agree with the tenets of creationism, arguing that there is a problem with our assumptuions about the evolution of birds. Nothing he says is a threat to the ToE - he simply sees a lack of evidence in this area.
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
Revision? Reproof?
Reproof? No. This isn't how science operates. Science doesn't seek "proof", it seeks the accumulation of evidence to support its hypotheses.
Revision? Absolutely! Science is
always open to revisions (or revolutions). The ToE has, in effect, been revised repeatedly for 150 years as we have observed and accumulated evidence. Nothing has contradicted Darwin's core assertions, but scientists
have refined and revised and rethought many of the details...