Dinosaurs and Birds revisited

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

I remember a little while ago when this issue was still unresolved an ornithologist called Alan Feduccia was very much of the opinion that birds were not derived from dinosaurs. It was never very clear exactly what he thought they were from. His negative argument and lack of a properly formulated positive alternative was always very reminiscent of IDer-think, but he was never explicitly representative of that crowd. Has anyone ever seen him present what might be called an alternative theory or does all he ever says start, "Birds can't be dinosaurs because..."

Has an explicit political allegiance to Creationist/IDers ever been admitted by him or proven against him?

I see the suggestion of fraud is made in that link, which is a bit desperate.

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

It is also interesting to see the Creationism-in-the-gaps argument being forced into narrower and narrower gaps by those feathered dinosaurs.

A fact never admitted by biblical literalists is that their ground gets irreversibly cut and subdivided by every scientific discovery that plugs another gap.

 

[Mojo]

A fact never admitted by biblical literalists is that their ground gets irreversibly cut and subdivided by every scientific discovery that plugs another gap.

What they usually do is to claim that plugging a gap leaves a new gap on either side of it. It never seems to occur to them that the new gaps may be smaller.