User blog comment:BastionMonk/We CAN create dinosaurs/@comment-5964097-20130107201259/@comment-11047508-20130118102610

"That hypothesis is absolute BS with absolute no evidence backing it. The thought was published on Creationist foundings in hopes to discredit Evolutionary Theory."

That hypothesis was put forward by Dr., and he is not in the least a creationist! If you want to know his reasons for this read this:

Larry D．MARTIN (2004), A basal archosaurian origin for birds, Acta Zoologica Sin ica, 50(6), 978—99.

About Protoavis:

"It has been thought that avian species existed in the Triassic approximately 200 million years ago since discovery of two nearly complete fossil skeletons of Protoavis (Rodionov, 1997) which pre-date the Jurassic Archaeopteryx by some 50 million years."

Griffin D.K., Robertson L.B.W., Tempest H.G., Skinner B.M. (2007), The evolution of the avian genome as revealed by comparative molecular cytogenetics, Cytogenetics, 117, 64-77.