Yes, your post agrees with another article:
In the study, parallels were drawn between the structures of the feathers and those of the earliest non-flying dinosaurs. However, the feathers could have still been of flying dinosaurs. "The feathers display pigmentation and adaptations for flight and diving," researchers reported.
http://img.ibtimes.com/www/articles/20110916/215173_colorful-feathers-dinosaurs-canada-museum-research.htm
You're focusing on the conclusion without analyzing the facts from which those conclusions were based.
The article says they found 4,000 feathers preserved in amber. Not dinosuars with feathers --- just feathers. Out of those 4,000 feathers, only 11 samples were considered.
So, 3989 samples were bird feathers, but at least they're sure that the remaining 11 samples were definitely dinosaur feathers?
Unfortunately, they're not even sure about those 11 feathers.
The article says, "Although scientists are unable to decide which feathers of the 11 specimens belonged to birds or dinosaurs, the filament structures are similar to other non-avian dinosaur fossils found before."
About those other "non-avian dinosaur fossils found before," there is still a controversy as to whether or not they're really non-avian.
So, their only basis for saying that the 11 feathers might be non-avian is an alleged similarity to feathers that may or may not be avian.
This is the best that evolutionists can give us?
Protoavis may have feathers but there is reason to believe that this species is not avian.
There is more reason to believe that it is avian. For example, one of the fragments of Protoavis is a keeled sternum, found only in strong flying birds.
Unless the feathers are not from a bird but from a reptile. Reptiles having feathers actually prove that there are signs of transition from one species to the next.
Dinosaurs with feathers are still controversial.
There have been many excavations that claim to have discovered dinosaurs with feathers. While there is no evidence rejecting the idea that there could have been feathered dinosaurs, there is also no strong evidence proving that there were.
While many evolutionists believe that dinosaurs are ancestors to our modern day birds, there is no evidence to prove it, but all the evidence against it.
When dinosaur fossils are extracted, some are found very detailed. For some fossils thought to be feathered dinosaurs, there are dark filaments found with them. Although they could possibly be actual feathers, a scientist cannot rule out other possibilities.
For example, those filaments could be plant remains buried alongside the animal (as in the case of the Ckanowskia rigida fossil). There is also a chance that these filaments could be actual bird feathers fossilized alongside the dinosaur (as in the case of the Pterorhynchus fossil).
The situation becomes problematic where true birds are found among fossils in the same layers as their presumed dinosaur ancestors, as in the case of the Liaoning province fossils.
There are many alleged examples of dinosaurs with feathers, but none of them are supported with conclusive evidence. For example:
The Caudipteryx (120 -136 m. years) was a flightless bird.
The Protarchaeopteryx (120-150 m. years), also a flightless bird.
Sinosauropteryx and Sinocalliopteryx (140 - 120 m. years) were dinosaurs. Structures described as “protofeathers” in the Sinosauropteryx and Sinithosaurus fossils are filamentous and sometimes have interlaced structures bearing no obvious resemblance to feathers. It now appears likely that these filaments (often referred to as “dino-fuzz”) are actually connective tissue fibers (collagen) found in the deep dermal layer of the skin.
Microraptor gui (128-124 m. years) was a four winged animal. But there are reasons to question the validity of the find. All but one of the Microraptor gui fossils were purchased from a dealer. Given the proven fake fossil business in China, such fossils are suspect without extensive study, such as X-Ray and UV light analyses. The one fossil actually found by the discoverers of Microraptor gui had only one feather, and there seems to be some doubt about it actually being part of the fossil.
Shuvuuia - A small flightless bird with badly preserved integument. Chemical analyses have supported these as feathers, but the conclusion reached was that Shuuvia was a bird.
Reptiles having feathers actually prove that there are signs of transition from one species to the next.
No, dinosaurs with feathers don't prove signs of transition, since it does not discount the possibility that when dinosaurs first appeared, some of them were feathered and some non-feathered.
For convincing signs of transition, there should first be fossils presenting a transitional stage of a scale to a feather.
Dinosaurs, being reptiles, have scales which are folds in the epidermis. Birds have feathers which grow out of follicles. Feathers and scales are completely different in make-up and appearance.
There are no known fossils presenting a transitional stage of a scale to a feather. All they have are the so-called "protofeathers," but they're actually patterns of decomposed skin resembling feathers, or plants contaminating the sample. Small, fluffy feathers could indicate that they are simply bird feathers that came from a chick.
However, scales to feathers aren't the only characteristics needed for a dinosaur to evolve --- it must also gain flight muscles, hollow bones, and a complex lung system.
The digits in the forelimbs of a theropod dinosaur and those in the wings of birds are also different. Though at first scientists believed that they both shared the same digits, I-II-III, it has recently been proven otherwise. New findings have shown that birds actually have digits II-III-IV in their wings unlike their supposed prehistoric counterparts. While the theropods lost digits IV and V, the birds lost digits I and V. Through evolution the theropods would have had to morphologically regenerate. While evolving into a bird, they would have lost digit I and then regain digit IV.
The avian lung is structurally unlike any other organism's. It is considered to be an irreducibly complex system, in which every part must function properly in order for it to work. The lung is dependent on both the parabronchi system and the air sac system for full working capabilities. This poses a problem for the step-by-step process of evolution because there is no possible way for an avian lung to survive the process with only certain parts. Through evolution all three systems would not be in full working order for each organism, and if not, the organism wouldn't be able to survive.
It is clear that the evolutionist's conclusions are based not on the evidence but on wishful thinking.
