Re: MORE "Dinosaur Planet"dinosaurs!!!(This time with feathers)

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting TIMOTHY BRIDGEMAN <timlee3005@earthlink.net>:

> I would'nt say that my viewpoint is highly flawed,as it is all a matter of
> interpretation of the evidence.That more people than not agree with the idea
> that not only are birds descended from dinosaursARE birds,is of little
> importance to me.While you could be right about it,I still can see other
> possibilities.

I think you've missed a point here.  Under modern taxonomic conceptions, saying
"birds are descended from dinosaurs" is the same as saying "birds are
dinosaurs".

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan