Here is Mark Shea* on a certain topic:
Just to be clear, birds once had teeth because evolution is real and only Fundamentalists, Catholic and Protestant, insist otherwise. Protestants at least have the excuse of ignorance of the Magisterium. Catholic Fundies have nothing. A few years back, Benedict XVI had a conference on Creation and Evolution at the Vatican. Real scientists, not the cranks from the Kolbe Center for Creation Research, were invited. It was not an oversight.
While I differ from the mathematics professor whose chronology** is given on Kolbe Center and while my response was not published, not inviting them was hardly a move worthy of Academic objectivity, any more than Kolbe Center's attitude to me was.
Back when I accepted "Benedict XVI" could be Pope, it was before I was fully aware of his anti-creationist fanaticism.
As long as lines like above statement by Mark Shea are true about the Vatican in Rome, the Vatican in Exile in Topeka is a more credible adress for the magisterium we Catholics have and should obey.
As to birds with teeth, creationists generally do not think all species God created have survived, nor that teeth are uniformly stable features within those that did survive. In fact, created species or kinds are usually considered as broader than Linnaean species. Hedgehogs would be one created species, but are 15 or 16 Linnaean ones, and in more than one Linnaean Genus, even.
Presumably, Munchaks are same created kind as deer, but have a different kind of teeth (they eat meat, or one variety does). It is possible that some of the birds on the video, known by fossils, having teeth as adults, are ancestral to poultry, which has been found as domesticated bird (usually in the form of chicken bones where meal remnants have remained to our times), since carbon dated 6000 BC, i e post-Babel, did have teeth and would not so easily be domesticated. Doesn't make proto-chicken Munchaks or deer Dinosaurs. Nor all of above decendants of LUCA or evolutionary timeline true.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Bibl. Parmentier
St Joseph Calasanz
27.VIII.2019
* His post is here:
Since folks found Eons to be entertaining and informative
August 24, 2019 by Mark Shea
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2019/08/since-folks-found-eons-to-be-entertaining-and-informative.html
** My own chronology is that of Roman Martyrology. Not the new one, the one which was already used before the illegal revisions by Antipope JP2.
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