Good of you to shift the goalposts from one losing proposition to
another. Aside from having no facts, distorting the truth, your
position suffers from schizophrenia. Choose a topic and stick to
it!!
The creationist liars claim that : Archaeoraptor
was touted by scientists as a bird-dinosaur transition, but it was
revealed as a fake.
The truth is that :
Archaeoraptor was not a scientific fraud. It was put
together by the Chinese fossil hunter who discovered it. The pieces
were assembled to make the fossil more marketable to collectors, not to
researchers. This worker may or may not have known that the tail came
from a separate fossil (Simons 2000).
Archaeoraptor was published in the popular press, not in
peer-reviewed journals. The main author of the article about it was National
Geographic's art editor, not a scientist. Nature and Science
both rejected papers describing it, citing suspicions that it was
doctored and illegally smuggled (Dalton 2000; Simons 2000). Normal
scientific procedures worked to uphold high standards.
The two halves of Archaeoraptor (Yanornis martini,
the body, and Microraptor zhaoianus, the tail) are valuable
fossils in their own right (Rowe et al. 2001; Xu et al. 2000; Zhou et
al. 2002).