Of course all fossils, like all species, are transitional, but the fossil remains of Anchiornis huxleyi certainly seem to be a link between dinosaurs and birds, and one would think that maybe now the rabid creationists would admit that there is at least one fossil that meets their incredibly narrow view of what a transitional fossil is. Wait, who am I kidding, of course they won’t!
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Corey, don’t you know that “transitional fossils” were created deliberately and specifically to test our faith?
You see, that’s the concept: test by seduction.
You’ll soon learn the brilliance of it when you raise your son: place some candy, chocolate, toy, milk, momy, whatever it is he really likes in front of him and tell him to NOT touch it while he is still far too young to understand what you are saying.
If he heeds your warning, he’s a good son. If he neglects it, he is incurably bad and you ought to punish him eternally, you know, like burn and torture him and all the other goodies done in hell.
That’s how it works between father and son, or daughter for that matter.