Re: How many times have wings evolved?

spintronic wrote:
>
In other words, they have a no win, non-proveable theory. Pretty much
like religion.

Even if you don't see that the rest was garbage you can *always* be sure
that the writer does not understand what a theory is when they talk about
"proving" or in theis case "non-provable"

The scary art is that the best explanation for the concept is expressible in
a few words.

If they are not smart enough to understand it, how can the rest of their
statements be valid.

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