Re: Caudipteryx and the dark side

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/2/00 4:30:00 PM EST, k.clements@auckland.ac.nz writes:

<< This involves what Richard Dawkins calls "the argument from incredulity." 
In other words, if we can't see how something could have taken place, it 
can't have taken place. >>

The argument from incredulity helps to explain why elephants do not evolve 
wings and fly. Sometimes this argument does, after all, provide a pretty good 
reason for something. Not the final reason, or the best reason, but at least 
a reason to look further.