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Ken Kinman wrote.
<< Birds are the living
descendants of dinosaurs, but different enough
that I won't go as far as to say they ARE living dinosaurs. I don't find it the slightest bit surprising that many other people see it the same way. >> i think there is a deep difference from the point
of view of a scientist who(like you) because of his/her own
ideas, doesn't want to call birds "dinos" , yet considering it as a
possibility(since it is sistematically correct), and that of any
other person who still hasn't understood that considering birds as
dinosaurs is not as considering humans as they were birds.
(i know this is a quite common reaction
)
It is surely still possible that a person,
after he/she has learnt that birds are dinosaurs descendants( and thus can
be considered dinos themselves) thinks that it's better to call them
simply birds, but this is a different thing.
Calzolari Filippo
Volunteer of the Paleontological Museum of
Monfalcone
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