This happens to be one of my favouriteb topics and I am intensely interested in it.
These are some of the references I would use and direct creationist detractors to:
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BOOKS:.
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DINGUS, Lowell and ROWE, Timothy: The Mistaken extinction: Dinosaur evolution and the origin of Birds. NY: W.H. Freeman, 1998.
PAUL, Gregory S.: Dinosaurs of the air: teh evolution and loss of flight in Dinosaurs and Birds. Baltimore: John Hopkins Uni., 2002.
CURRIE, Phillip J. et al. (eds.): Feathered dragons: studies on the transition from Dinosaurs to Birds. Bloomington: Indiana Uni., 2004.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES:.
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PRUM, Richard O. and BRUSH, Alan H.: Which came first, the feather or the Bird?.
Scientific American, March 2003.
PRUM, Richard O.: Development and evolutionary origin of feathers.
Journal of experimental zoology [Molecular and developmental evolution], 285(4), pp.291-306; Dec.15 1999.
BRUSH, Alan H.: Evolving a protofeather and feather diversity .
American zoologist, 40(4), pp.631-639; 2000.
HARRIS, Matthew P. et al.: Rapid communication: Shh-Bmp2 signalling module and the evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers.
Journal of experimental zoology, 294(2), pp.160-176; Aug.15 2002.
PRUM, Richard O. and BRUSH, Alan H.: The Evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers.
Quarterly review of biology, 77(3), pp.261-295; Sept. 2002.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.
--Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)