The limits of man’s imagination is boundless in a world that is guided only by evolutionary relativism. This is especially true in the present mysterious domain of dinosaur hunters. Nothing punctuates this reality more vividly than the recent “scientific discovery” (or more appropriately the evolutionary hope) of a fossil that was alleged to be a dinosaur with feathers.1 Now, before you break out in sidesplitting laughter, let me fill you in on the amazing details-it does get funnier!

It seems a team of 007-type smugglers from China, driven presumably by profit motive rather than scientific purity, beguiled the already overwrought imagination of several prominent evolutionists with a concocted fossil. 2 This prestigious group of scientists already believed birds came from dinosaurs, and as a result, were easy to fool.3

A principal in this group, Mr. Stephen Czerkas of the Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, found the fossil in question at a gem and rock sale in either Utah or Arizona (both locations have appeared in the accounts). 4 The Sidney Morning Herald reported how Czerkas reacted when he first saw the fossil:

“It was stunning,” Mr. Czertas recalls. “I could see right away that it didn’t belong on sale. It belonged in a museum.” So he hastily contacted a patron who put up the $80,000 the dealer was asking...and took his prize home in a state of high excitement, convinced he had discovered evidence of a pivotal moment in evolution. 5 (emphasis added)

Then without peer review, and in the emotion of the moment, the National Geographic (November, 1999) published the entire story-as only they can-under the fantastic title: Feathers For T.Rex? Printed over a color illustration of a facsimile of the so-called fossil, the caption read:

"It’s A Missing Link between terrestrial dinosaurs and birds that could actually fly." 6It is obvious they so wanted to believe that they had at last had found a genuine “missing link”-even one that confirmed their farfetched belief that flying birds evolved from reptiles-that they didn’t take the time to corroborate the validity of their fossil with other experts in the field for which they had given the name Archaeorapter.7 But the plot thickens, and the power of the human imagination following the dictates of a controlling world view, shows it authority over the human will once again.

Dear Readers,

This week Dr J was interviewed on "The Frank Pastore Show," -- the nation's biggest in Christian talk-radio, outta Los Angeles.  You can listen to the 15-min interview at :

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So you get a bonus and may listen to historian David Barton after me, if you like!

God bless y'all and ... keep on thinking!  Your brother, Dr Jackson.