Quote Originally Posted by SkeletalFrog View Post
Why would it be different? It doesn't matter if an albino appears via natural breeding or is created via genetic engineering, it's still an albino, and still has the albino allele. Indeed, if anything, Nature is superior to us at creating mutations, as our methods are regrettably rather crude still, and does so with great regularity. Indeed, statistically, every one of us has 10 *new* mutations, not present in either parent, that affect protein coding (and hundreds that are "silent").



The "feather headress" is Hollywood and art, not science - we have evidence of full, bird-style wing feathers on the arms of Velociraptor and other species, and current evidence suggests that they were fully feathered.

As for the larger ones, there are multiple issues. First and foremost is preservation - feathers preserve very rarely, and there's only a few deposits in the world of high enough quality to retain evidence of them. It's not that other things didn't have feathers, just that the coarse sediment prevented fine details from being preserved. Aside from that, there's the issue of size - feathers may provide valuable insulation for a small animal, but cause a large one to overheat, so large dinosaurs may have lost them, much like why elephants and rhinos are mostly bald. Finally, there's relationships - only one group of dinosaurs, the maniraptorans (including raptors, T. rex, and therizinosaurs), had what we could recognize as feathers. Others, including other predatory dinosaurs like Allosaurus and Spinosaurus, diverged before feathers evolved.



Actually, adaptation is most often a change in anatomy or biochemistry. Look at the diversity in frog shapes - hoppers, walkers, jumpers, burrowers, swimmers, all with bodies adapted to their mode of locomotion. And no piddly stuff - doubling or halving of leg muscle mass, significant differences in muscle properties, springy tendons.


An excellent primer for this is actually the product of an old newsgroup, talk.origins. Their overall FAQ is here: Frequently Asked Questions About Creationism and Evolution" with links to other FAQs about particular issues (including some you're raised). This other one here Introduction to Evolutionary Biology is a good introduction to evolution, its mechanics, common misconceptions, modern data, etc.

I will warn you that it's a bit dry and tends towards the "wall of text" style of presentation, but it's extremely useful, and should answer most of your questions quite thoroughly.
Ill give it a look. I'm not completely closed on the idea. I've always wandered if there we're more to what they claim. Like you said about the holly wood bull. I wasn't referring to that ****. I usually watch documentories on dinosaurs and other such prehistoric creatures and I have yet to see one that said that their were large Raptors covered entirely with feathers. Just the headress and yes some on their arms, but not the whole body. The closest to this that I know of is the Archeoptorix or however you spell its name, but it was small. Chicken sized right?

Maybe I need to look over some more documents on Evolution. I can honestly say that my knowledge on this subject has been greatly decreased from not keeping up with it over the years. Used to read a lot about it Dinos, but a lot of archeologists opinions differ and so its hard to say who is right and who is wrong. You've got my attension though.