[__ Science __ ] “Missing Link” in Dinosaur Evolution Discovered?

[AIG.com]

Recent headlines hailed a Brazilian fossil discovery as the “‘great grandfather’ of Diplodocus and Brontosaurus!,” a missing link in the evolution of dinosaurs.

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[Barbarian]

"Missing link" is not a scientific term. However much earlier fossils show the origin of dinosaurs. Hererrasaurus is a much earlier member of the saurischia, and while a true dinosaur, has many primitive thecodont characters. Dinosaurs are a polyphyletic group; the ornithischia evolved independently from thecodonts.

 

[Prycejosh1987]

I do believe in dinosaurs, but not evolution. The problem is evolution does not address the purpose of life. I have never heard a good answer on that. Maths says the purpose is 42. Laughable. The purpose to life is the most important thing to address, bible and God does address it but human understanding of things does not. This is how we know the bible is true.

 

[Barbarian]

I do believe in dinosaurs, but not evolution.

It's something we see every day. Evolution is merely the change in allele frequencies in a population. That's going on constantly. Common descent is a consequence of evolution, not evolution itself.