Archaeopteryx may fly from the bird family tree...

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and into a related group called Deinonychosauria. As of right now, Archaeopteryx is in a branch called the Avialae, which also includes our modern birds. But a new study has given convincing evidence for removal of Archaeopteryx from Avialae to placement in the Deinonychosauria infraorder. This is not the first time someone has suggested the change, but it appears to be the most robust, with new fossil evidence indicating that the similarity to Velociraptor and Microraptor make it more appropriately placed within the Deinonychosauria infraorder.

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To read more on some earlier thoughts about Archaeopteryx from Darwin's bulldog, Thomas Henry Huxley, read even more here.
 
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Tonington said:
and into a related group called Deinonychosauria. As of right now, Archaeopteryx is in a branch called the Avialae, which also includes our modern birds. But a new study has given convincing evidence for removal of Archaeopteryx from Avialae to placement in the Deinonychosauria infraorder. This is not the first time someone has suggested the change, but it appears to be the most robust, with new fossil evidence indicating that the similarity to Velociraptor and Microraptor make it more appropriately placed within the Deinonychosauria infraorder.

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To read more on some earlier thoughts about Archaeopteryx from Darwin's bulldog, Thomas Henry Huxley, read even more here.
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How can this be? The world is only 6000 years old. Someone is going to be burning the midnight oil trying to justify this with the fundies.
 
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Cliffy said:
How can this be? The world is only 6000 years old. Someone is going to be burning the midnight oil trying to justify this with the fundies.
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Are you familiar with what the number 40 means in the Bible?
 
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Yep. A time period of 40 somethings, usually days or years, is always a period of tribulation and testing.

Of course not, most of them don't. The word was fundies, not Christians.
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And also the time is unknown - Just means a very long period.

Lastly - As to Fundies, what percentage are they of all Christians in North America? A rough guess is fine.
 
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And also the time is unknown - Just means a very long period.

Lastly - As to Fundies, what percentage are they of all Christians in North America? A rough guess is fine.
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What difference does it make. I wasn't referring to all Christians, just the nut cases. But I would guess that the percentage of Christian nut cases is about the same as in any group of humming beings.
 
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As to Fundies, what percentage are they of all Christians in North America? A rough guess is fine.
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Hard to know. I've seen stats that claim the numbers are under 100,000 people, which would make for a very small percentage, well under a tenth of a percent, and frankly I don't believe that. I've seen other stats claiming it's anywhere between 30 and 60% of all Christians. The numbers are dominated by U.S. figures of course, since there are ten times as many Americans as Canadians, and Americans are generally much more religiously inclined than Canadians. Mexico is predominantly Catholic, a church that doesn't subscribe to the fundamentalist view so I'd expect its contribution to be vanishingly small. Christian fundamentalism in North America is mainly a feature of U.S. Protestantism, and I'd guess that in the U.S. in particular it'd be more than half of professed Christians, which would put it in the 100-150 million people range.
 
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Dexter Sinister said:
Hard to know. I've seen stats that claim the numbers are under 100,000 people, which would make for a very small percentage, well under a tenth of a percent, and frankly I don't believe that. I've seen other stats claiming it's anywhere between 30 and 60% of all Christians. The numbers are dominated by U.S. figures of course, since there are ten times as many Americans as Canadians, and Americans are generally much more religiously inclined than Canadians. Mexico is predominantly Catholic, a church that doesn't subscribe to the fundamentalist view so I'd expect its contribution to be vanishingly small. Christian fundamentalism in North America is mainly a feature of U.S. Protestantism, and I'd guess that in the U.S. in particular it'd be more than half of professed Christians, which would put it in the 100-150 million people range.
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I would break it down to Repubs and then their religious support groups - The numbers may be more accurate- Not sure though but it seems a reasonable place to begin though
 
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Good article, i guess my princton guide to dinosaurs is slowly becoming out of date and obsolete :(.. In my opinion Archaeopteryx will still be considered part of the transition between some dinosaurs to birds.
 
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