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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)                  201

               Discover: How did you get involved in the debate in the first place?

               FEDUCCIA: I really was not interested in the origin of birds until I
               wrote a book called The Age of Birds back in 1980, for which I had to
               write a chapter on bird origins. I tried to be as fair as possible, but
               when I did not come down firmly on the side of the dinosaurian
               origin of birds, I was viewed as a heretic . . .

               If these researchers were so convinced that they were right, why did it
               make a difference what I thought? Why did they get so enraged? As
               the years progressed, I started looking into the problem of the origin
               of birds in great detail, and everywhere I looked, it was as if we were
               being asked to put a square peg in a round hole. 162



                                                        Some scientists blindly place
                                                        every fossil they find within an
                                                        imaginary evolutionary family
                                                        tree. As a result of their bias,
                                                        fossil forgeries are accepted as
                                                        evolutionary propaganda with-
                                                        out being sufficiently studied.
                                                        This distances them from any
                                                        claim to being scientific proof.
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