Evolutionist Colin Patterson, a former senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, perhaps summed it up the best when he admitted that Archaeopteryx has simply become a patsy for wishful thinking. C. Patterson, in Darwin's Enigma by Luther D. Sunderland, p. 70, 1984
The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved. W.E. Swinton, Biology and Comparaitive Physiology, ed. A.J. Marshall, Academic Press, NY, Vol. 1, p.11
Unfortunately, the intermediate stages hardly ever seemed to exist in the fossil record (Huxley's later trumpeting about Archaeopteryx notwithstanding). M.Ridley, Nature, 286:444 (1980)
Using what I've seen, heard, and read, I've assembled a brief history of Archaeoraptor. It's a tale of misguided secrecy and misplaced confidence, of rampant egos clashing, of self-aggrandizement, wishful thinking, naïve assumptions, human error, stubbornness, manipulation, backbiting, lying, corruption and, most of all abysmal communication. It's a story in which none of the characters look good.Lewis M. Simons, Archaeoraptor Fossil Trail, National Geographic, Oct. 2000
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