well bill- if the "hard evidence" is really that birds come from [in whatever complicated and inexplicable gradualistic pathway]dinos it strikes me as strange that there are evolutionary avian experts who reject such interpretation.telling me that something is hard evidence tells me little more than what you believe or accept, since the creationist can do just the same.they have the same evidence to interpret as the darwinist.

jack- your learned post did still indicate that what has always been thought impossible is now considered more than just possible by virtue of the supposed fact of dino extinction 65 million yr ago.
i do however note the priviso that somehow the blood residue might not be part of the original fossil.