The Incredible Shrinking Dinosaur?

The other day, I was visiting my prospector friend Stormie Waters. We went out Folly Road toward Deception Pass, and near Stinking Lake we had an uneasy encounter with Russell Watchtower. He was coming toward us from the Darwin Ranch, and heads up their Ministry of Truth.

They are all excited about a study that claims to show how alvarezsaurs, which were not all that large to begin with, managed to shrink, then evolve into birds — anteaters. The reasoning based on a passel of evolutionary assumptions.

Alvarezsaurus and giant anteater, both from Wikimedia Commons
Left: Michael B.H (CC BY 3.0), Right: Jean (CC BY 2.0)

Some owlhoots wrote a paper on how some alvarezsairs managed to shrink while evolving. It did not go well. Teleology was involved because they supposedly commenced reducing for a purpose. They also bypassed existing evolutionary ideas as well as basic science and logic, including how one of the "latest" alvarezsaurs was quite large. In addition, there is disagreement among evolutionists about classifying them (is it is or is it ain't), so they chose specimens that confirmed their biases.

From a biblical creation science standpoint, there could easily have been different biblical kinds (baramins) of alvarezsairs. Also, Genesis Flood models by creation scientists fit observed data and answer questions, such as why there are massive fossil graveyards of disparate creatures (including both land and sea animals). Just because something was found in a certain location doesn't mean it lived there. Also, alvarezsairs fossils are found all around the world.

A recent news article mentioned the incredible downsizing of one group of carnivorous dinosaurs, the alvarezsaurs. Alvarezsaurs were small, light, and fast theropods, with the largest (Bonapartenykus ultimus) being about 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) long from snout to tail. According to secular paleontologists, there are 21 confirmed species of alvarezsaurs conventionally dated from Late Jurassic, around 160 million years ago, to the end of the Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago. Both body size and weight are believed to have been drastically reduced between 110 million and 85 million years ago. Additionally, alvarezsaurs seemed to rapidly speciate starting at 90 MY ago.

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