[Jim72]

I put no words in his mouth. You apparently failed to read the article.

"... and the flying birds were derivative of Potter creatures, including mastering flying on the back of big bird creatures."

And I am sure Kurzweil knows about Pegasus. All the more the reason his article was bunk!

[Confusion]

I completely missed that line when I first read the article and I even missed it when I read it again, to figure out what you were talking about. I guess that shows how relevant the point about the flying thing is to the content of the article.